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Author Pruitt, George, 1967-

Title Building winning trading systems with TradeStation / George Pruitt, John R. Hill
Published Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 389 pages) : illustrations
Series The Wiley trading series
Wiley trading series.
Contents Building Winning Trading Systems with TradeStationTM; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Fundamentals; What is EasyLanguage?; Variables and Data Types; Operators and Expressions; Precedence of Operators; TradeStation 2001i versus TradeStation 6.0; TradeStation 2000i; PowerEditor; A Simple Program; TradeStation StrategyBuilder; TradeStation 6.0; PowerEditor; A Simple Program; Conclusions; Chapter 2 EasyLanguage Program Structure; Structured Programming; Program Header; Calculation Module: MyRSIsystem; Conclusions; Chapter 3 Program Control Structures
Conditional Branching with If-ThenConditional Branching with If-Then-Else; Repetitive Control Structures; For Loop; While Loop; Conclusions; Chapter 4 TradeStation Analysis Techniques; Indicators; PaintBar and ShowMe Studies; Functions; Strategies; Conclusions; Chapter 5 Measuring Trading System Performance and System Optimization; TradeStation's Summary Report; Total Net Profit; Maximum Intraday Draw Down; Account Size Required and Return on Account; Average Trade; Maximum Consecutive Winners and Losers; Number of Trades and Average Number of Bars Per Trade; Average Winning and Losing Trade
TradesAnalysis; Graphs; Optimization; Conclusions; Chapter 6 Trading Strategies That Work (or The Big Damn Chapter on Trading Strategies); The King Keltner Trading Strategy; King Keltner Pseudocode; King Keltner Program; King Keltner Summary; The Bollinger Bandit Trading Strategy; Bollinger Bandit Pseudocode; Bollinger Bandit Program; Bollinger Bandit Summary; The Thermostat Trading Strategy; Thermostat Pseudocode; Thermostat Program; Thermostat Summary; The Dynamic Break Out II Strategy; Dynamic Break Out II Pseudocode; Dynamic Break Out II Program; Dynamic Break Out II Summary
The Super Combo Day Trading StrategySuper Combo Daily Data Bar Calculation Pseudocode; Super Combo Code; Super Combo Summary; The Ghost Trader Trading Strategy; Ghost System Code; Real System Code; The Money Manager Trading Stragegy; The Money Manager Code; Conclusions; Chapter 7 Debugging and OutPut; Logical Versus Syntax Errors; Debugging with the Print Statement and Print Log; Table Creator; Conclusions; Chapter 8 TradeStation as a Research Tool; Commitment of Traders Report; Day of Week Analysis; Open to Close and Open to Open Relationships; Day of Week Volatility Analysis
Time of Day AnalysisPattern Recognition; Intermarket Analysis; Conclusions; Chapter 9 Using TradeStation's Percent Change Charts to Track Relative Performance; Working with Percent Change Charts; Conclusions; Chapter 10 Options; Option Basics; Listed Options; Nomenclature and Terminology; Long and Short; Closing Option Trades; American Versus European Options; The Special Properties of Options; Volatility Trading; Options and Changing Conditions; The Greeks; Who Are Market Makers?; Option Strategies; Single-Option Strategies; Long Call; Short Covered Call; Short Naked Call
Summary TradeStation has gained worldwide acceptance as the premiere investment software platform, but information regarding it has been limited and focused mainly on functionality-until now. In Building Winning Trading Systems with TradeStation, systems experts George Pruitt and John Hill show you how to unlock the power of this platform-specifically TradeStation 6.0-and profit from it as you trade a variety of markets including the futures, commodities, and stock market, to name just a few
Notes Includes index
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Subject Investments -- Data processing
Stocks -- Data processing
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- E-Commerce -- Online Trading.
Investments -- Data processing.
Stocks -- Data processing.
Form Electronic book
Author Hill, John R., 1926-
ISBN 0471291501
9780471291503