Stock Predictor guide

Getting Started with Stock Predictor

Stock Predictor is technical analysis software for individual and institutional investors. Its main feature is trading strategy backtesting: it simulates a strategy on past historical data and quickly shows how well it would have worked.

  • Plot and print technical stock charts
  • Build and apply trading strategies
  • Backtest the performance of trading strategies
  • Get buy, hold, avoid or sell signals for each security

Step-by-step guide

These topics help you get started quickly and make full use of the software.

  1. Learn the user interface
  2. Create a symbol list
  3. Download historical data or import data from files
  4. Set your technical indicators
  5. Run a trading strategy
  6. Understand trading strategy results
  7. Manual strategy performance analysis
  8. Automated strategy performance analysis
  9. Combined strategies

New to technical analysis? The technical analysis section explains the indicators Stock Predictor uses, such as moving averages, MACD and the Relative Strength Index.