Master the Stock Market with Trade Strategist

Trade Strategist allows you to take control of the stock market, by designing and testing trading strategies. With more than 90 built-in functions and indicators that can be combined together in an almost infinite variety of ways, Trade Strategist helps you to distinguish the science from the superstition when it comes to the stock market.

Harness Technical Analysis

Trade Strategist belongs to a field of finance called Technical Analysis, in which trading decisions are based on measurable quantities, rather than the emotions or psychology of the trader. A 'technical' trader makes use of charts and indicators that derive from price and other data to decide when to buy or sell stock.

Whether you are a seasoned veteran of Technical Analysis, or have never heard the term before, Trade Strategist has something to offer. For the experienced trader, it is a powerful yet easy to use tool. For the beginner, it is a great way to learn Technical Analysis, and improve your skills. Because you can develop and test trading strategies before you use them, it can end up saving you a lot of money — you learn what does and doesn't work without getting your feet wet. It is a bit like paper trading at high speed!

Create Your Own Indicators

With more than 90 built-in functions and indicators, Trade Strategist provides a rich tapesty with which to work. But you are not restricted to just these basic functions, because you can combine them in almost any way you can think of. And if you are a power user, with some Cocoa programming experience, you can use the Software Development Kit (SDK) to write plugins that incorporate your own indicators into Trade Strategist.

Create and Test Trading Strategies

The center piece of Trade Strategist is trading strategy development. This involves combining the built-in indicators into rules that determine when stock should be bought and sold. You can then test a strategy on historical price data to see how well it performs (known as 'backtesting'): Trade Strategist downloads price data for the stock and range of dates that you choose, and then moves from day-to-day, checking if any signals are generated by the strategy. When a signal is generated, Trade Strategist makes a virtual trade, and keeps track of how much you would have made or lost had you really been using the strategy. At the end of the simulation, you are presented with detailed results of trading activity, including a day-by-day break down of the data in tabular and chart form.

Generate Signals for Real Trading

If you come up with some good strategies, you can use them to help guide your daily trading activities. Trade Strategist can take a strategy, and check what signals are generated for a given stock, based on the latest data available on the internet. You can generate signals for multiple stocks and strategies at a time, and use the results to decide what trades you will make the next day.

Make Charts

No Technical Analysis package would be complete without charting, and Trade Strategist is no exception. You can chart just about any function or indicator you can come up with in Trade Strategist. Each chart can include multiple plots of different expressions, and expressions can be saved for later use.

Export Data

Anytime you create a chart in Trade Strategist, you can export or copy its data, for use in other applications such as spreadsheets. So even if you are not interested in building strategies, you can still use Trade Strategist to calculate complicated Technical Analysis functions, and transfer the results to another package. In this way, Trade Strategist can be used as a powerful calculator, complementing your other financial software.

Free Price Data

Where most Technical Analysis packages require you to subscribe to a data provider with monthly charges, Trade Strategist uses freely available data from the internet. Once you have registered Trade Strategist, you have no further costs. If you already subscribe to a data provider, you may be able to use the Trade Strategist Software Development Kit (SDK) to create a plugin that allows you to access the provider with Trade Strategist.

A Mac Exclusive

Many Technical Analysis applications on the Mac are first written for other platforms and ported, or developed with cross-platform software libraries. This often leads to unstable buggy applications, or software that does not feel like it was written for the Mac. As Mac users, we appreciate and demand high quality software, with the look-and-feel of the Mac.

Trade Strategist has been written solely for Mac OS X with the Cocoa frameworks. Cocoa is a great development environment, and has allowed us to come up with a robust and powerful package. We benefit, because it is possible to do things with Cocoa that are much more difficult with other frameworks, but you benefit too, because the final product is so much better than otherwise would have been possible.

Download Trade Strategist v1.4.3 - 3.60 MB (Universal Binary)

Version limitations

The Demo Version: When you download Trade Strategist for the first time, you get the demo version of the application. You can only make up to 5 charts at any time. You can't use Advanced functions (see the Expression Library to see which functions are Advanced). Other restrictions on the demo version are the same as for the Standard version.

The Standard Version: The cheapest licensed version of Trade Strategist is the Standard version. This version has access to advanced functions and unlimited charts, unlike the demo version. However you can't generate signals with your strategies and you can't load plugins created with the Software Development Kit (SDK). If you are only a casual user of Trade Strategist, and aren't going to use it to guide any real trading activity, the Standard version is probably right for you. Later, if you decide you need the extra functionality provided by the Pro version, you can purchase an upgrade, which is cheaper than a full Trade Strategist Pro license.

The Pro Version: Purchasing a Trade Strategist Pro license gives you access to the full functionality of Trade Strategist, including advanced functions, signal generation, unlimited charts, and loading of plugins. If you are serious about your trading, you will probably want a Trade Strategist Pro license.