Hi there,

I am new to R and want to perform a few experiments with trading strategies
with R.

However, I have experience in programming, but not in R (it's very similar
to what a programmer would expect).

For now, I've parsed some data (Open, High, Low, Close) of a security via
read.table, which works fine.
What I want to do now, is to perform a backtest of a simple trading strategy
with R. Say, for example "buy on cross of MA(200) and MA(100)". Of course I
could write the backtest routine by myself, but I saw a package called
backtest. However, I do not really get the point how this may work. How
could I use backtest package to analyse a simple strategy as above?

Additionally, I would like to know, if there are some websites, wikis etc.
which give a basic introduction to R in Finance "for dummies"? Anything I've
seen so far was more or less for professionals.


Thank you in advance
Alex

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