The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies

by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Donna McCormick

Overview

The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies is for traders who want to take the next step to consistently profitable trading. The authors--themselves seasoned veterans of the futures trading arena--pinpoint the trading methods and strategies that have been shown to produce market-beating returns. Their rigorous and systematic backtesting of each method, using the same sets of markets and analytic techniques, provides a scientific, system-based approach to system development...to help you assemble the trading system that will put you on the road to becoming a more consistently profitable trader.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071379014
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	03/21/2000
Series:	McGraw-Hill Trader's Edge Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	376
File size:	35 MB
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About the Author

Jeffrey Katz is founder and president of Scientific Consultants Services, Inc., a firm which provides custom programming and publicly available software for traders. He specializes in applying artificial intelligence technologies to trading and has developed two AI-based trading software programs, N-TRAIN and LOGINVOLVE. He has published a number of articles in Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, PC II, and Neuro Ve$t Journal. He wrote two chapters in the book, Virtual Trading. He holds a masters degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in psychophysiology from the University of Lancaster in England. He is a member of MENSA.Donna McCormick is vice president of Scientific Consultants Services, Inc. She specializes in the design of trading systems using Omega Research's products, the leading provider of system development tools in the trading industry. She has co-written several articles for Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities.

Table of Contents

Preface. Part One: Tools of the Trade. Chapter 1: Data. Chapter 2: Simulators. Chapter 3: Optimizers and Optimazation. Chapter 4: Statistics. Part Two: The Study of Entries. Chapter 5: Breakout Models. Chapter 6: Moving-Average Models. Chapter 7: Oscillator-Based Entries. Chapter 8: Seasonality. Chapter 9: Lunar and Solar Rhythms. Chapter 10: Cycle-Based Entries. Chapter 11: Neural Networks. Chapter 12: Genetic Algorithms. Part Three: The Study of Exits. Chapter 13: The Standard Exit Strategy. Chapter 14: Improvements on the Standard Exit. Chapter 15: Adding Artificial Intelligence to Exits. Conclusion. Notice. Appendix. Index.

What People are Saying About This

Ruggiero

Murray Ruggiero, Jr., Contribuitng Editor, Futures magazine:

If you're the type of trader who wants to build his or her own systems, this book is for you!

Mark Jurik

Mark Jurik, Editor, Computerized Trading:

The authors extract some sobering trading edicts the good old-fashioned way -- analysis by the scientific method. Here we see the fruits of detailed and methodical research, both the long and short of it.... These results will certainly affect my own trading designs!

Robert Pardo

Robert Pardo, President, Pardo Capital Limited:

I have known Jeff Katz for years. He has worked on a number of my projects, always exhibiting a high degree of professionalism, attention to detail, and thoroughness. The same craftsmanship is apparent throughout this book.