Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.6
EAN: 9780071359801
ISBN: 007135980X
Label: McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 358
Publication Date: November 20, 2000
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Sales Rank: 219294
Studio: McGraw-Hill

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Today's computer trading programs can be a godsend to traders looking for an extra edge. They can also be filled with dangerous--and expensive--pitfalls for the uninitiated. Trading Systems That Work reviews and analyzes today's major software programs, and helps traders determine which will work best for their personal trading style and habits--and which could actually work against them.

Emphasizing Tradestation and Excel (the two most popular software trading programs), this valuable guidebook covers all aspects of building, understanding, and evaluating a system. Traders will keep Trading Systems That Work handy for its: *Clear, step-by-step assistance with intricate systems *Techniques to evaluate the true performance of any system




Rating: - Good
This is good for programmers. It's a bit beyond me but I still got some useful stuff out of it that gave me an edge so that made it worth it. If someone is a programmer, this is your book. He's great and gets you thinking.

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Rating: - Useful but
remember: there is no such thing as a free lunch..you have to build systems yourself and test test test and then optimise a bit.(I said a bit :-)

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Rating: - Good techniques for developing a system
If you want a caned system, this is not the book for you. What this book will teach you is how to evaluate a system that you are developing. It is a little hard to read, but the excel formulas are worth it.
It covers the essetials of a good trading system (entry, exit and money management) and explains why not all good trading systems are profitable. (All profitable trading systems must be good first).

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Rating: - professional methodology of systems dvelopment
Very good book for serious system developers. Most books on the topic present a system, optimize it so it fits a particular market, show couple of very convincing graphs and voila, here is the contribution to the trading science.

In this book the author presents system development in the context of portfolio trading: a robust system should work in a variety of markets. Stridsman takes you through his process of testing a system, from setting the data, to performance measures. Results ... Read More

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Rating: - Trading systems that confuse
If you're building a computer based trading system, this title offers some interesting insight. There are several example trading systems that implement commonly used system features, and these systems are analyzed and commented on. But this is far from a blueprint--the methods used are too rough to actually use as defined, and the descriptions are very confusing in many places. Included TradeStation code is a bit easier than most to understand, but that's not saying much. Every time I read this ... Read More

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