The Ultimate Algorithmic Trading System Toolbox + Website: Using Today'S Technology To Help You Become A Better Trader

This book gives an in depth explanation and tutorial todeveloping trading algorithms across a broad spectrum oftoday’s technological offerings. Many testing/tradingplatforms will be introduced and several will be fully utilized todevelop trading ideas from a concept to a complete “out thedoor” trading solution. All source code will beavailable and much will be duplicated across the more popularsoftware packages: TradeStation, TradersStudio, MultiChartsand TBD. Many of the author's trading library will be fullydisclosed in EasyLanguage. This book will be a tutorial, atrading tools repository and a story of how this whole business ofalgorithmic trading got started and how it has evolved over thepast quarter of a century. The knowledge this book willshare will not include the ultimate trading system, even though aplethora will be presented, but it will help prevent today’straders from making the same mistakes over and over and save theirtime by showing which paths not to go down. It will also showthe reader that you don’t need a computer science degree totake advantage of today’s trading technology. This bookwill provide theory and the tools necessary to convert ideas intotrading algorithms across various testing/trading platforms. The reader does not need to be a programmer. The concepts andsimplistic computer code in the book will help move from theory topractice at a very quick pace. The ideas and computer codewill provide a solid foundation that will promote further andextensive research and the development of much more complicatedprograms.

GEORGE PRUITT is director of research for Futures Truth Magazine. In addition to coding more than 1,000 different trading methodologies, he has written for Futures, ActiveTrader, and SFO Magazine, had his research published by The Wall Street Journal and Barron's, and coauthored The Ultimate Trading Guide and Building Winning Trading Systems with TradeStation.