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Exploring the Essential Features of “Building Winning Trading Systems with Tradestation (with CD) – George Pruitt”
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About the author
George Pruitt
Publishing Timeline:
June 2023 – The Day Trading Edition of Easing Into EasyLanguage – the surprise installment to the series. This book was just begging to be written. Day trading is yet another tool you can have in your arsenal to gain a technical edge. This form of trading is attractive due the absence of overnight risk exposure. But don’t kid yourself, there is plenty of risk during the 9:30 to 4:00 trading day. This book discusses and evaluates the ideas that have made day trading, over the years, a successful venture. Ideas such open range break out – momentum and time based, volatility-based break out, zone trading including Camarilla levels, pyramiding and others. In addition, the book discusses trade filtering using range compression, NR4, buy and sell day configurations, time of day and day of week analysis. As important as getting in, getting out might be even more important. For this reason, protective stops, profit objectives, trailing and breakeven stops with their associated code is presented. The often-overlooked scaling in and scaling out of positions has an entire chapter dedicated to this form of trade management. Like most of my Easing Into… books, all code is Multi-Chart compliant.
July 2022 – Advanced Topics Edition of Easing Into EasyLanguage. The third and final book of the series. Take your programming skills to a higher level and learn about Seasonality, multiple time frames, text graphic objects, programming a Radar Screen. Step in to the world of data structures and create your own Hash Table and token generation. All code is 100% basic EasyLanguage – no OOEL.
April 2022 – Trend Following Systems – A DIY Project – Batteries Included (2nd Edition). A Python based approach to Algorithmic trading. Updated and refactored TradingSimula_18 [2022] + Simple Charting Package + Updated Performance Metrics on the most famous Trend Following Algorithms of the 20th and 21st century.
December 2021 – The HiRes Edition of Easing Into EasyLanguage. This first book is titled The Foundation Edition because it provides the new EasyLanguage programmer the “foundation” to build their trading algorithms upon. This edition provides professional advice on the TradeStation Development Environment, the basic building blocks of creating Strategies, PaintBars, ShowMes, and Functions. Different backtesting paradigms are discussed and examples are provided via the content in the book plus over four hours of video instruction.
The newest book is titled The Hi-Res Edition, because it provides the necessary tools and shortcuts to apply your trading algorithms to minute bars (high resolution data). EasyLanguage is one language, but programming daily bars versus minute bars is a totally different paradigm in that processing small time frames must be handled in a different manner. All of your indicators that you have used on your daily bars are now applied to minute bars and the results are vastly different. You must scale your ideas down and use different algorithms to calculate your daily indicators all the while working and interacting with minute bars. All resources for these books are available as usual on www.georgepruitt.com.
Note to purchasers of my original Python book – Trend Following Systems – A DIY Project (1st Edition). Updated data for the Python System Back-Tester and TradingSimula-18 can be located at my website www.trendfollowingsystems.com. Updated versions of the software from these books can also be found there too. If I were new to “The Ultimate Algorithmic Trading System Toolbox”, I would download all the code from the Wiley website and work with that version and then download the updated versions and databases from www.georgepruitt.com.
Want to learn trading system testing from scratch? Want to be up and running in less than five minutes? Then check my latest book out – Trend Following – A DIY Project – Batteries Included 2nd Edition… I also have a new website www.trendfollowingsystems.com to support this book. Update August 2021 – I will be introducing a new version of TradingSimula-18 software in the next few weeks. I have refracted (simplified) the system programming module so there is a cleaner interface. TS-18 still relies on very few external libraries and can run within a few minutes of downloading the code as long as Python has already been installed
If you have purchased my latest book don’t forget to sign up on www.georgepruitt.com to receive free updates. I have finalized version 2.0 of the Python System Back-Tester. This version adds more performance metrics and also allows the user to create portfolio files so multiple markets can be batched processed. I will make sure I provide an obvious link to the latest version on the website.
And now onto my bio:
I am George Pruitt and live in the mountains of western North Carolina with my lovely wife Leslie and our two children Brandon and Emily. I have a degree in Computer Science from my beloved UNC-Asheville. The synergy between trading and computer expert systems is ever increasing – I personally believe it is impossible to successfully trade without some form of system. For this reason I have written these two books (update: make that three books “The Ultimate Algorithmic Trading System Toolbox”.) I wanted to show by example how to program in EasyLanguage, AmiBroker, VBA and Python. I hope you find these books valuable in your education – the systems are designed as platforms for further research.
Right now I am working on developing some longer term methodologies that will provide non correlation to other trend followers. With the recent market volatility I am also working on ways to filter out low probability trades without hurting the profit side of the equation too much. I just completed writing “The Ultimate Algorithmic Trading System Toolbox” where much of this research is included. Currently I am scrubbing the free commodity data from QUANDL’s Chris Database and creating back adjusted continuous contracts. Check out my website for my progress. I have included data for the past 10+ years on 35+ commodity markets in my latest book offering.
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