- Multi-Strategy Modeling: combine multiple strategies across long/short, strategy type, market, bar size and view true portfolio based results and correlations easily.
- Actual Trade Testing: users can import actual trades and compare them against backtest results.
- Powerful Optimisation & Analysis Tools: including interval tests, walk-forward, monte-carlo, genetic optimisation and so on. There are powerful analysis tools that allow the user to do research on the markets above and beyond 'just backtesting'.
- Detail Results Analysis: best in class analysis tools, including drill-down capabilities into individual strategy results, view trades on charts, write custom metrics and so on.
- Data Integration: RealTest integrates seamlessly with data providers like Norgate Data. Everything is taken care of so you can start building strategies on highly accurate data, without survivorship bias, right away. Supports Stocks, ETFs, Futures and FX.
- Order List Generation: easily generate orders for live trading.
While you won't use RealTest for advanced charting (Trading View can do that for free anyway), and you may not have quite the same freedom as compared to a backtesting engine you may have developed yourself in Python, you would still notice the gap if this tool was missing from your kit. It's just too easy & too fast to test ideas or do research in RealTest to imagine life without it.