Glauco Siliprandi - 2003-11-13

Hello,

here are a few instructions about how to start using (and contributing to) QuantProject.

You have to (CVS) checkout two modules: the QuantProject module (containing the complete Visual Studio .net solution) and mdb (containing the database with a couple of sample security quote histories).

You can place the QuantProject module wherever you want in your local PC.
Once you have performed the checkout, double click the QuantProject.sln file: Visual Studio .net will start. Build the solution.

The mdb module contains the QuantProject.mdb database: place if wherever you prefer in your directory tree.

Then you can run the built application to start testing the default script. The first time it runs, a window will pop up asking you to locate the QuantProject.mdb file: browse your directory tree to the proper location. Then the script will run a moving average based trading system on the Microsoft security and it will launch Excel to display some reports for the backtest.

Glauco