Presentation

GeniusTrader aims to be a full featured toolbox to create trading systems. Powerful systematic trading requires several things :

many indicators and corresponding signals
money management rules
- deciding what is a reasonable amount of money to put on a single trade (to limit the risk associated to that trade)
- combining different values within the portfolio (to limit the global risk)
flexibility to be able to test all combinations with the above items
backtesting system with analysis of results

GeniusTrader already has support of most of this. GeniusTrader consists of a bunch of perl modules associated to a few perl scripts. It has no graphical user interface since it's absolutely not needed to achieve its goals ...

Here's an example of a backtest report that GeniusTrader can generate for you (once you created your trading system by defining its rules). GeniusTrader can nevertheless generate graphics that can be used to help you create your trading system. It can generate fully customized graphics and it can also display the evolution of a portfolio during a backtest. Those graphics help a lot to realize the weaknesses of your trading systems :

big max draw down
long period without new high (very frustrating when you're playing with real money)
no regular gains (only one very good trade made most of the profits)

Going further ...

What you read looked interesting and you want to try ? Okay, that's why it's free software. However let me warn you : GeniusTrader is not meant to be used by typical end-users, you should really know a bit of Perl and if you want to use it, you'll have to understand how it works (by reading the docs and the API). That said, we can help you in that direction... you'll find everything needed in the following sections.

User guide - Getting started, user guide, FAQ, etc
Documentation - Code documentation
Development - Get and the latest code via svn and sign up for our mailing lists
Bugtracker - Improvement ideas, bugs...

Have fun, we hope to see you soon, we'd enjoy your contribution !