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Synopsis:
Faced with competition from huge institutional investors, does the individual investor stand a chance of making a profit? Computerized Trading can even the playing fields. It reveals how you can use your computer to gather, analyze, and detect profitable market inefficiencies - the key to making winning trades day after day.
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Jacket Description:
Faced with competition from huge institutional investors, does the individual investor stand even a remote chance of making a profit? The market is still filled with opportunities, says this straight-talking-guide-but to chisel out profit from the market's inefficiencies you are going to need market insight, trading skill, and all the edge you can get.
Compurized Trading gives you that edge. It reveals how you can use your computer to gather, analyze, and detect profitable market inefficiencies- the key to making winning trades day after day.
You'll learn the secrets of success from 20 experts in the field, all organized and edited by top authority Mark Jurik to lead you step-by-step from basic to progressively more advanced topics, including:
-Learning To read the Market
-Building, Testing, and evaluation Systems
-Using The Psychology of trading to win-mental exercises to help you avoid pitfalls and slumps
-new methods for quantifying market behavior
-Rules and Formulas for controlling risk
-Market, time, and system diversificaition
-Pros and cons of modern portfolio theory
-Advanced system development
-Intermarket analysis and how to utilitze it
-Profiting from data preprocessing
-Modeling the markets
-Getting the best data and software
In addition, you'll find useful web sites, time-saving lists of financial data vendors, and helpful charts, diagrams, and case studies to illustrate and clarify every key point.
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Table of Contents:
Part I Basic Trading Skills and Methods
Part I Introduction
Chapter 1 Trading Methods
Chapter 2 Popular Trading Indicators
Chapter 3 Combining Trend Analysis with Indicator Readings
Chapter 4 Forecasting with Mobility Oscillators
Chapter 5 Entering a Market
Chapter 6 Exiting a Market
Chapter 7 Basic Money Management
Part I Summary
Part II Testing and Evaluation
Part II Introduction
Chapter 8 Backtesting
Chapter 9 Evaluating Trading Performance
Part II Summary
Part III Assessing the Market and Yourself
Part III Introduction
Chapter 10 Trading to Win: The Psychology of Trading
Chapter 11 Quantifying a Market's Upside and Downside Potential
Chapter 12 Choosing a Bar Length or Trading Interval
Chapter 13 System Portfolio Optimization
Part III Summary
Part IV Advanced Indicators and Forecasting
Part IV Introduction
Chapter 14 Developing a Trading System Using Intermarket Analysis
Chapter 15 Complex Indicators: Nonliner Pricing and Reflexivity
Chapter 16 Making Profits with Data Processing
Chapter 17 Modeling the Markets Using Statistical Network Data Mining
Chapter 18 Case Study:Buliding an Advanced Trading System
Part IV Summary
Epilogue
Appendices
Appendices Introduction
A Financial Data Sources
B Finding the Best Data
C Books, Consultants, Software
D Project Nimble:An Automated Equity Options Market Making System
E About The Editor and Contributors
Index
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