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The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies
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.
376 pages, Hardcover
First published February 29, 2000
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May 29, 2012
The core premise of this book is to promote mechanized futures trading systems over discretionary trading, in order to improve consistency in the trading results. Despite being a bit dated, coming from the early 200s, it has good coverage on system testing, and the approaches to entries (setups) and the various criteria for exits, including sample strategies.
This book's title is a bit misleading, as I wouldn't consider it so much of an "Encyclopedia" (hardly a comprehensive coverage of most commonly occurring systems, nor any novelty insights here), rather providing a system development & testing methodology. Also, the verbose listing of C source code was distracting and raises the impression that the book's size was inflated to justify the high price.
This book's title is a bit misleading, as I wouldn't consider it so much of an "Encyclopedia" (hardly a comprehensive coverage of most commonly occurring systems, nor any novelty insights here), rather providing a system development & testing methodology. Also, the verbose listing of C source code was distracting and raises the impression that the book's size was inflated to justify the high price.
January 4, 2013
Terribly dated.
This book was probably a good reference at the time it was printed, but now a dozen years later is is hard to find anything that is really useful in this massive tome. The authors spend time laying out how to use Excel, and a good chunk of the book is repetitions just in case you jumped ahead or skipped to a particular chapter. I don't need to be told what the column heading mean every chapter.
There is a bit of insight into building a trading system, although I would think that something printed more recently would have more relevant information.
This book was probably a good reference at the time it was printed, but now a dozen years later is is hard to find anything that is really useful in this massive tome. The authors spend time laying out how to use Excel, and a good chunk of the book is repetitions just in case you jumped ahead or skipped to a particular chapter. I don't need to be told what the column heading mean every chapter.
There is a bit of insight into building a trading system, although I would think that something printed more recently would have more relevant information.
October 21, 2016
Perhaps more useful for a software engineer than an investor. Good info, though I would rather spend time investing or trading than writing code. As I ever indeed to be a mechanical trader, this was overkill for my trading account. Simple is better.
June 5, 2016
Misnamed for sure.
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