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Book list for automated trading #409553
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If traders can't make money with trading, they start a consulting firm, offer trading courses, and write trading books. Consequently there are tons of books about trading methods and systems; most are useless, some are worse. Fortunately, a few trading books have been written by competent authors. Here's a non-complete list of useful books about theory and practice of automated trading:

Murray R. Spiegel, Larry J. Stephens: Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Statistics. Beginner's course into probability and statistics with lots of examples. Work through this book and you have all basic knowledge for understanding financial math.

Ruey S. Tsay, Analysis of Financial Time Series. If you read the Schaum's Outline book and hadn't had enough of mathematics, this is the hard stuff that introduces all important mathematical models of price series.

Urban Jaekle, Emilio Tomasini: Trading Systems. How to develop a trading strategy; the book walks you through every step from idea up to various optimization and money management methods. Highly recommended.

David Aronson, Evidence-based Technical Analysis. Excellent, but a little elaborate book about the theory of testing trade strategies. A classic.

Ernest P. Chan, Quantitative Trading. Insight in strategy testing and portfolio optimization with many practical advices.

John F. Ehlers, Cybernetic Analysis for Stocks and Futures. Trading from an engineer's perspective with signal processing methods. Comes with source code for all trading algorithms.

Ralph Vince, Handbook of Portfolio Mathematics. How to allocate your capital in an optimal way among different assets and strategies.

William R. Gallacher, Winner Take All. Although we don't agree to all of Gallacher's conclusions about trade strategies, this book (from 1994) is a funny read and an intelligent insight into the trading scene and its gurus. The author also describes a apparently profitable trade system and then shows why it won't work - unique for a trading book.

Robert Harris, The Fear Index. A must-read for any automated trader...

If you come across other useful trading books, please list them here!

Re: Book list for automated trading [Re: jcl] #410441
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What is the best book for C?

Re: Book list for automated trading [Re: SFF] #410453
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Start with George's tutorial, then continue with Sam's Teach Yourself C in 24 Hours. You can also find it online f.i. http://aelinik.free.fr/c/

Re: Book list for automated trading [Re: jcl] #412923
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The book "Cybernetic Analysis of Stocks and Futures" looks interesting, was this where you got all the formulae for the lowPass, highPass, Fisher transform, etc?

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Yes, that one plus a standard engineering book about signal processing.

Re: Book list for automated trading [Re: jcl] #413236
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Can you recommend " Schaum's Outline of Signals and Systems, Second Edition
Hwei Hsu (Author)" for primer?

Also I am interested in a complex system such as Neural Networks and Fuzzy.

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I do not know that particular book, but the Schaum's outline series can be generally recommended, especially when you what to learn something quick without much theory.

Re: Book list for automated trading [Re: jcl] #415153
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Re: Book list for automated trading [Re: SFF] #416272
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In order to understand John F. Ehlers' book, what mathematical knowledge do I need to understand in advance?

Re: Book list for automated trading [Re: SFF] #417071
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I can recommend this book to those who are interested in system/automated trading.
Rational Investment: Why System Trading is the Only Rational Way to Invest (Volume 1)
Mark I. Lee
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0615604374/

By the way, The author's blog is here.
http://www.rtnlblog.net

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Re: Book list for automated trading [Re: SFF] #423520
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Interesting new book. It will be good for an automated system trader.
http://www.amazon.com/Trading-Strategies-Skeptic-Dan-Murphy/dp/0989483304

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Re: Book list for automated trading [Re: SFF] #437261
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On the objetive line of David Aronson:
Are Random Trading Strategies More Successful than Technical Ones? - July 11, 2013
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0068344
Best: download the PDF (upper right label).

Some insight on The Zorro Project:
Interview with Johann Christian Lotter - May 13th, 2013
http://www.investingdev.com/en/interview-johann-christian-lotter/

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Finding Pockets of Market Predictability through Multi-Object Evolutionary Computation - 2010
http://www.iconceptpress.com/download/paper/100917015909.pdf
describes a machine learning profitable scalping estrategy.

Other chapters (6 ...) of the same book can be downloaded from
http://www.iconceptpress.com/books/forecasting-models--methods-and-applications/
A waste of time for me.

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Re: Book list for automated trading [Re: juanperico] #437436
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Juan, thanks for liks. I'll give it a read. Also have read JCL's interview a while back.

Article Collections from Active Trader Magazine [Re: jcl] #440940
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Article Collections from Active Trader Magazine
This is one of strategy ideas sources referred by Jaekle/Tomasini - yet another "wheel reinventor's compendium" if you want, for noobs like me

TradeStation Labs Analysis Concepts papers - also referred by Jaekle/Tomasini

new book by John F. Ehlers - Cycle Analytics for Traders [Re: webradio] #441075
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John F. Ehlers - Cycle Analytics for Traders
Publication Date: November 18, 2013; ISBN-10: 1118728513
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Re: new book by John F. Ehlers - Cycle Analytics for Traders [Re: webradio] #441076
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Thanks webradio for the infos. :-)

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is this:
Quote:
"Schaum's outline of theory and problems of probability and statistics : [including 760 solved problems] / by Murray R. Spiese"
the same as the one in the first post:
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"Murray R. Spiegel, Larry J. Stephens: Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Statistics"



?

Thanks!

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