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I developed my own backtesting software in C# from scratch as I was not satisfied with limitations of the various commercial packages available. So far all it generates however are CSV files of the results. What I would like to do is chart these and show the entries/exits similar to the way backtesting works natively in NinjaTrader. Does anyone know of a good (preferably free) stock charting class that I can download to accomplish this easily? So far the ones I have found googling are pretty lacking.
I guess the main feature I am looking for is the ability to pan and zoom. Generating a static chart is not too difficult but for the length of time I am backtesting, its impossible to see any detail without zooming in.
If you want to program your charts yourself (I do as third party software is sometime buggy) then I can recommend the Chart Controls for the .NET framework from Microsoft: archive.msdn.microsoft.com/mschart
The link contains a download-sample of different charts and how the source-code looks. Very easy to understand. The download contains an exe file you can run so you don't have to compile anything to get the sample running