The magic is in the method
RuleTrader’s two halves – RuleTrader Test and RuleTrader Live – provide all you need to create, test, refine and deploy a fully automated trading system that takes the stress, angst and effort out of investing, while maximising profits. Everything’s in plain English, so no programming is required!
Systematically improve your investment returns and make your life easy
Step 1: Easily build an automated investment system – no programming skills required
RuleTrader Test is where you create, evaluate and refine your automated trading system. An Example Investment System is included to show the potential of this approach. This includes a Value & Growth strategy and a Momentum strategy. Together these have returned over 17% per year in back-tests over the last 10 years, delivering excess returns, in that period, of over 300% relative to the FTSE All-Share Total Return index. You can build on this* or create your own system from scratch for even better performance.
No programming skills are required because your system is configured with intuitive English sentences. These are quickly created using a ‘fill in the blanks’ approach, so there’s no complicated syntax to learn. While it’s simple to do, there are virtually no limits on the power of the systems that you can create. Over 450 constructs let you blend fundamental and technical approaches to make your trading specification as powerful and sophisticated as you like. So, for example, you could screen for winners based on their fundamentals, if that’s your style, then use RuleTrader’s technical features to automatically identify the best time to enter or exit a position. Or vice-versa, or some combination of the two – it’s entirely up to you!
* Please note that the Example System was designed to be a demonstrator of RuleTrader’s features, not a model investment system, so any use you make of it must be entirely at your own risk. The good news is you can back-test it for yourself, to get an idea of what those risks might be
Step 2: Because it’s automated, you can then evaluate it with flexible, accurate back-tests
Never take anything on faith again because now you can back-test your system against ShareScope’s comprehensive database of historic share prices, company results and other market information. We call it Evidence Based Investing (EBI), as it provides the hard data you need to find out what works and what doesn’t. It’s data you can rely on because RuleTrader takes account of all costs to provide a conservative view of returns over the test period. It’s also designed to keep you safe, by guarding against inadvertent over-optimisation or bias, which might result in misleading test results.
RuleTrader flexes to suit your requirements. You can test one share or index, all shares selected by your trading specification, or a saved list of shares from a previous test. You can troubleshoot your system by stepping through tests on a day by day, rule by rule, or trend by trend basis. Or you can leave batches of tests to run over-night, automatically refining your system’s parameters for you.
Step 3: Use comprehensive reports to discover how to methodically increase the returns from your system
Be assured that your automated investment system is working correctly, as RuleTrader’s execution reports and graphics let you examine its computations during back-tests. Discover where your system’s profits are coming from, where the risks lie, and how it can be improved, with over 120 reportable parameters in its powerful trading performance reports.
RuleTrader facilitates a ‘virtuous circle’ of test → evaluate → enhance that allows you to systematically improve your investment system to generate stunning results. This process also provides an excellent education in what does and doesn’t work in investing, without risking any money. That will then give you the confidence to import your system into RuleTrader Live and fully automate your investments. No more will you have to spend time looking for investment opportunities and managing your existing positions, as RuleTrader does it for you!
Step 4: Once you’re satisfied, manage your investments automatically to save much time, effort and stress
RuleTrader Live runs your system against ShareScope’s intraday and end-of-day data, constantly reevaluating your trading rules against each new data point, so you don’t have to. As soon as a trading rule is triggered, a trading signal is displayed in a ShareScope List column. Check that column once a day, enter any trades that are signalled with your broker, then enter the price you got in RuleTrader. Job done; in seconds!
Your computer does all the hard work of finding new opportunities and monitoring your positions, so it’s super-fast to check for new trading signals. Because of that, it’s now effortless to stay on top of the market and take advantage of opportunities as soon as they happen, so you get in first for the best price.
Say goodbye to the hard work, angst and indecision of investing. Instead you can lean on the dispassionate buy/sell signals from your system, shielded from the irrational panic and greed that so easily corrupts investor discipline. So now you can kick-back, relax and let the profits roll in!
