The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies (McGraw-Hill Trader's Edge Series)

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.

"The authors extract some sobering trading edicts the good old-fashioned way—analysis by the scientific method. Here we see the fruits of detailed and methodical research, both the long and short of it.... These results will certainly affect my own trading designs!"

—Mark Jurik

Editor, Computerized Trading

"If you're the type of trader who wants to build his or her own systems, this book is for you!"

—Murray Ruggiero, Jr.

Contribuitng Editor, Futures magazine

"I have known Jeff Katz for years. He has worked on a number of my projects, always exhibiting a high degree of professionalism, attention to detail, and thoroughness. The same craftsmanship is apparent throughout this book."

—Robert Pardo

President, Pardo Capital Limited

Jeffrey Katz is founder and president of Scientific Consultants Services, Inc., a firm which provides custom programming and publicly available software for traders. He specializes in applying artificial intelligence technologies to trading and has developed two AI-based trading software programs, N-TRAIN and LOGINVOLVE. He has published a number of articles in Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, PC II, and Neuro Ve$t Journal. He wrote two chapters in the book, Virtual Trading. He holds a masters degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in psychophysiology from the University of Lancaster in England. He is a member of MENSA.

Donna McCormick is vice president of Scientific Consultants Services, Inc. She specializes in the design of trading systems using Omega Research's products, the leading provider of system development tools in the trading industry. She has co-written several articles for Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities.

Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities Magazine

"This book gives futures and options traders hundreds of innovative ways to take profits out of the market and gain an edge on every trade."

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 Examining strategies employed by traders, and showing which ones work, this book covers most trading approaches, including: fundamentals, technical analysis, market sentiment, money flows and news. Each is analyzed against a variety of markets