Quant Strategy Inventor – Flexible Quantitative Strategy Builder for Forex and Stock Market

Quant Strategy Inventor is the powerful Excel based Strategy Builder to create profitable strategy for Stock, Forex and Future markets. With Quant Strategy Inventor, you can create the profitable trading strategies. You can analyse and predict financial markets. You can construct your own active and passive portfolio like the fund manager. You can do all this without pain of learning any programming language like C++, C sharp, MQL4, Easy Language, etc. Instead, you can do everything in your Excel Spreadsheet from backtesting to optimization of your trading strategy using simple spreadsheet formula. To guide you the way through our Quant Strategy Inventor, we ship our Quant Strategy Inventor with example-trading strategies. So you can get going with your strategy building immediately.

What is Quant Strategy Inventor?

Quant Strategy Inventor is the spreadsheet-oriented software featuring powerful backtesting simulation, optimization, worst-case scenario analysis, technical analysis and economic analysis for your trading and investment. Quant Strategy Inventor is not statistical software like SAS or SPSS and it is strongly oriented through trading and investment application. The Quant Strategy Inventor was created as an Excel Add-in meaning that it runs in your Excel Spreadsheet. With user friendly and highly customizable feature of Excel, you can generate profitable strategy in less time with less labour cost. Advantage of using Quant Strategy Inventor is that you do not have to learn any third party programming language to develop and test your trading ideas. You can simply create your sophisticated trading strategies using Excel’s built in spreadsheet formula. The good news is that you do not have to spend hours of time to learn new programming language like C++ or C Sharp or MQL4 or easy language at all. Without knowing any programming language, you can still build powerful trading strategy with our Quant Strategy Inventor. This is not necessarily meant that people with coding ability can’t use our Quant Strategy Inventor. If you wish, you can create your trading logic in full VBA language too. You can build as complex model as you can. You can still use our backtesting algorithm to test your trading ideas created from your VBA code. Even though our Quant Strategy Inventor is the spreadsheet-oriented software, we still use the rigorous power of C++ and C sharp for many of its calculation algorithm.

You can visualize your forex and stock market data with plenty of flexible charting techniques already built in Excel. Additionally we offer over 80 technical indicators for your trading model construction. In your trading model, you can include many real world economic variables like country’s GDP or unemployment rate or commodity prices. You can load any free data or commercial data to build your own trading strategies. Test if the trading idea is valid with our Quant Strategy Inventor. Check its worst case- scenario with our spread and slippage simulator. You can even build optimal portfolio for your serious capital using our Quant Strategy Inventor.

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Figure 1: Menu to access Quant Strategy Inventor Modules. We have created some sample spreadsheet with some simple trading strategy.

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Figure 2: Backtesting and optimization results on sample Strategy.

Benefit of Quant Strategy Inventor

The biggest benefits of Quant Strategy Inventor is that firstly you can build profitable trading strategies in your spreadsheet without learning any third party languages like C++, C sharp, MQL5, MQL5, easy language, etc. Secondly, you can add any economic or real world variables in your trading strategies. For example, if US retails sales data are important for your trading, then just grab the data and paste them right next to your spreadsheet trading strategies to materialize profits. Once you have built trading strategies in your spreadsheet, you can do various things like backtesting, optimization, and portfolio construction with our Quant Strategy Inventor or even more is possible. Below is the breakdown of benefits of our Quant Strategy Inventor.

  • Bulk data downloading facility for US and Non-US stock market data. Visualize forex and stock data with over 80 technical analysis in your Spreadsheet.
  • Quickly test various trading ideas in your spreadsheet without writing code. You can literally create any trading strategies you can imagine.
  • Test multiple trading strategies at the same time. Currently you can test up to 100 strategies at the same time.
  • Including economic variables are tough in many trading platforms. In our Quant Strategy Inventor, you can include any commercial or non-commercial economic data into your trading strategy without incurring any additional development cost.
  • You can apply your trading strategy to many different instruments across different market. For example, you can build trading strategy for forex. If you are curious about the profitability of your strategy in stock market, then you can quickly copy and paste stock market data in your trading strategy template to test their profitability. It is only matter of copy and paste in your spreadsheet.
  • Build trading strategy at the same time as you can manage your portfolio.
  • If you prefer to hide your trading strategy, you can still build your trading strategy using full VBA code. Therefore, you have an additional option to use VBA code for your strategy building if you wish.
  • Quant Strategy Inventor include many other statistical algorithm to support your trading and investment. For example, you can use our Augmented-Dickey Fuller test to build pair trading strategy. You can use our Mean Variance portfolio algorithm to manage many different trading strategies. You have an access to nine different forecasting algorithm and ARIMA forecasting model to gauge overall market direction. You can also check seasonal behaviour of any stock market data using our Quant Strategy Inventor. Besides these algorithms, there are many other algorithms to support your trading and investment with our Quant Strategy Inventor.
  • You can simulate trading cost with our Quant Strategy Inventor to estimate your trading model in more realistic sense. You can apply slippage and widened spread for forex. You can also simulate different level of fees for stock trading in one button click.
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Figure 3: Candlestick Chart of EURUSD ticker with simple moving average 13, simple moving average 40, Bollinger bands and Parabolic SAR and T3 moving average.

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Figure 4: Mean Variance Portfolio construction with the portfolio of the popular US stock

How to get our Quant Strategy Inventor

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In modern trading and investment world, traders uses various economic and non-economic variables to build their trading strategy. This is very natural since many giant funds invests their money based on the simple factors like national GDP level, Inflation, Trade Balance, etc. Analysing chart and price data are important but you can always broaden your trading idea outside traditional technical and price action analysis. Our Quant Strategy Inventor can help you to combine traditional technical and price action analysis together with fundamental variables. If you believe that this software can definitely help  improving your return on investment (ROI).  Then here you have 3 options to buy our Quant Strategy Inventor. For any of these 3 purchasing options, you will receive the identical product with the same functionality. However, each purchasing option offer different license duration and different activation number. Therefore, please read carefully to find out which purchase option is most suitable for your current situation. When you download our Quant Strategy Inventor, you will also receive several sample strategies together.

  • 1 Month Short Project License:  If you are developer and your customers want you to build trading strategies then you can use this short period license. Also if you are private investors and you have short trading and investment opportunities, then this is just right license for you. Future update is included for free of charge for this license.
  • 1 Year Private Investor License with 2 activation: If you are full time or part time trader and you have a plan to improve your ROI from your trading and investment operation, then this license is suitable for you. This is most generic license scheme. Future update is included for free of charge for this license.
  • 1 Year  Private Investor License with 4 activation: This is the identical license scheme to above 1 year Private Investor license. However, this one comes with 4 activation with generous discounts scheme. If you want to use this software on various location, then this license is suitable for you. Future update is included for free of charge for this license.

Note that our license scheme for Quant Strategy Inventor is different from our Meta Trader 4/5 products. Meta Trader 4/5 products license is based perpetual license. Quant Strategy Inventor have the different time duration for each License Scheme. Before purchasing our products, please check carefully which license scheme is suitable for you.

Redistribution of Package

Among our Quant Strategy Inventor, following two files are free of charge and freely distributable without any limitations.

  • TechanicalAnalysis.xll – Add-ins containing Technical Indicator Libraries
  • QuantSimulation.xlam – Add-ins containing interface function for backtesting, optimization simulation and other strategy building practice.

For above two free files, the following Copy Right Notice applies to protect developers. Rather than that these files are absolutely free to distribute and to use and to be shared.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE DEVELOPERS AND CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Following files are only usable by licensed individuals or Organizations. Therefore, keep these files for your own trading and investment only.

  • QuantStrategyInventor.xll
  • UtilityLibrary-AddIn-packed.xll
  • Quant Strategy Inventor_version.xlsm (including any version of this files.)

Frequently Asked Question about our Quant Strategy Inventor


Q: My Excel Skill is very basic. Can I still build trading strategy in my Excel with your Quant Strategy Inventor ?

A: With Quant Strategy Inventor, any one can build trading strategy in their Excel regardless of their level of Excel experience. But you still need to understand some very basic spreadsheet logic like A > B or C <= D - 2, etc, plus it is better if you have some experience of putting formula in the cell like "=Average(A1:A5)". In general, the main purpose of our Quant Strategy Inventor is to offer the flexible trading strategy Building capability regardless of the technical level of the traders.


Q: Can I build pyramid trading strategies using your Quant Strategy Inventor?

A: Yes, you can. Although we did not provide the sample spreadsheet on how to build pyramid trading strategies, you can definitely build them using our Quant Strategy Inventor. To do so, you have to populate your columns for multiple buy and sell orders. Each column should be corresponding to each pyramid order triggered at different level.


Q: Just curious how fast the optimization speed ?

A: Optimization speed is really depending on the way you build your trading strategies plus the spec of your computers. Therefore, it is difficult to tell exactly how fast or how slow our Quant Strategy Inventor is for your own trading strategies. To give you some idea, 10,000 optimization can be done in reasonable time scale over couple of hundreds trades. With our optimization feature, you can set where you can start your optimization in flexible manner. If you have to do really large number of optimization like 100,000 or over, then you may split your optimization in several parts. This can be conveniently handled using our Quant Strategy Inventor since you can set different starting place for your optimization each time.


Q: I am interested in your Quant Strategy Inventor. Can I use them for Brazilian Stock Market ?

A: Well, Quant Strategy Inventor runs in your Excel Spreadsheet. If you can grab the data for Brazilian Stock Market, you can always use our Quant Strategy Inventor to build any profitable strategy. Likewise, you can use Quant Strategy Inventor for any other stock, forex, future market.


Q: I have some strategy working on Excel. Can you convert my strategy to be used in my Meta Trader 4 ?

A: Yes, we can help you with the conversion of your Excel Trading Strategy to MQL4/MQL5. You can check our webpage for “Conversion of Excel Strategy to MQL4/MQL5” . Please contact us to get the pricing, you can always contact us using our Email address: sales@algotrading-investment.com or our dedicated contact form here.


Q: I can see that the License Scheme is little bit different from your MT4/MT5 products. Can you explain more clearly about the License of the Quant Strategy Inventor?

A: Thanks for the asking the brilliant question. For MT4/MT5 products, we are offering the life time license. With our Quant Strategy Inventor, we offer either monthly or annual license only currently. The license scheme is rather different since Quant Strategy Inventor is some sort of analytical station where the collection of all the feature within the software is far exceeding any of the MT4/MT5 single products.