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Backtesting speed

1 message · Adrian Trapletti

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The companies I (used to) work for use intraday data, sometimes 
tick-by-tick data, to backtest trading strategies. In that case  speed 
is a very important issue and interpreted language environments like R 
are slow in comparison to compiled language environments like C/C++. 
Generic environment for quant trading might look like the following: 
time critical computations like backtesting and realtime computing in 
C/C++, client/server, GUI etc. in Java, and statistical analysis and 
diagnostics, prototyping etc. in Matlab or R or similar.

Regards
Adrian