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Title: Building Winning Trading Systems with TradeStation by George Pruitt, John R. Hill ISBN: 0-471-21569-4 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 22 November, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Comments from Author
Comment: John Hill and I wrote this book to help educate users of TradeStation's EasyLanguage. The first few chapters introduce the reader to the fundamentals of programming with EasyLanguage. These chapters cover data types, if - then and other decision constructs and overall EasyLanguage program structure. The book then moves into the analysis of trading system performance and optimization. Real world trading systems are introduced as tutorials. These systems aren't just simple moving averages, but sophisticated examples of the proper use of EasyLanguage. The daytrade system that is included demonstrates the use of multiple data streams and intraday position monitoring. The other systems include trend following, break out and zone analysis methodologies. Other programming topics such as modular programming, debugging and input/output are also touched upon. The book finishes up with interviews of some of the best known system vendors in the industry today. All EasyLanguage code (6.0 and 2000i) is included on CD.
Rating: 5
Summary: Introduction to Programing strategies in EasyLanguage
Comment: "Building Winning Trading Systems With TradeStation" is brand new and probably the best 'Intro to EasyLanguage' currently available other than the manuals TradeStation itself offers. The title suggests it is a strategy book, but the 'strategy' section is only about 50 pages of a 375 page book. The rest of the text is a good intro to TradeStation, EasyLanguage and trading, including tips on debugging, performance reports, StopLoss exits and other somewhat obscure topics.
Other EasyLanguage guides are somewhat dated (though, I still find them interesting). Check out "Ask Mr. EasyLanguage" and "Using Easy Language" if you want to comparison shop.
Much of the book can be found elsewhere, particularly the online TradeStation manuals. 90 pages of appendix comes straight from the online 'EasyLanguage Reference Guide' (a pdf file). What is unique about the book is the 'system development' perspective. The online guides offer little or no help developing trading systems.
The CD contains the code described in the book. The code could have been put on 2 floppy disks, but I guess a CD is cheaper and saves space.
Table of Contents:
1. Fundamentals (What is EasyLanguage?) pg 1-29
2. EasyLanguage Program Structure pg 30-38
3. Program Control Structures (if-then-else) pg 39-51
4. TradeStation Analysis Techniques pg 52-75
5. System Performance pg 77-108
6. Trading Strategies pg 109-156
7. Debugging pg 157-166
8. Research topics pg 168-193
9. Percent Change Charts (Jan Arps) pg 194-200
10. Options pg 201-227
11. Interviews with EasyLanguage Developers pg 228-276
12. Appendix pg 283-380
13. Index pg 381-389
Rating: 4
Summary: Very helpful, but badly edited
Comment: The systems are very good.
You will of course need to tune them, but I am generally very impressed.
The prose is also very good, and I have much better insight about how to design systems like this.
The only downside is that the code fragments in the book
1) are not available for download on the web, which is just silly in this day and age;
2) are very poorly edited; they contain syntax errors and obvious bugs.
So poor technical editing, but great content.
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Title: Professional Stock Trading: System Design and Automation by Mark R. Conway, Aaron N. Behle ISBN: 0971853649 Publisher: Acme Trader Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $64.95 |
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Title: Tradings Systems That Work: Building and Evaluating Effective Trading Systems by Thomas Stridsman ISBN: 007135980X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 20 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Trading Systems and Methods by Perry J. Kaufman ISBN: 0471148792 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 16 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $95.00 |
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Title: High Probability trading by Marcel Link ISBN: 0071381562 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 17 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Donna L. McCormick ISBN: 0070580995 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 29 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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