The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies | 
| Authors: Jeffrey Owen Katz, Donna L. Mccormick
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 132540
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
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Pages: 376
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0070580995
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.644
UPC: 639785317197
EAN: 9780070580992
ASIN: 0070580995
Publication Date: February 29, 2000
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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.
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 A good starting point for a systems trader July 28, 2008
The book should be compulsory reading for any aspiring systems trader.
The testing methodology is thorough, and they cover many of the more common approaches to systems trading as well as a few that many will find a tad too esoteric. My only complaint is that the book could present us with more detailed stats on the tested systems. In e.g Way of the turtle (a much less comprehensive text) the author does an excellent job of presenting stats on any tested system, including a number of important measures you will not find in the Encyclopedia. Overall, I still believe it is a must read. For beginners I also recommend the following books (for starters):
Way of the Turtle (Faith)
Evidence Based Technical Analysis
Design, testing and optimization of trading systems (Pardo)
Also, check out the Trading Blox forum at tradingblox.com for
tons of useful info on systems trading.
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I liked, but it could be better March 25, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I liked this book.
it presented many ideas and a right pragmatic approach to test a trading system.
I found tough the statistics part, but it's not an author's fault: it's statistics.
in the final part I found many repetition (many pages might be saved just writing: " hey, for this system we apply the same said at pag. xyz..").
Only two things remained a mistery to me (but I'm not much intellingent..): why didn't the author make any test for longer horizons? in the end, the strategies never approached a longer term trading strategy: usually the trades last few days.
maybe it's not worth? the author doesn't tell us
ah, and it's not an encyclopedia: why did he choose this name?
this is the second mistery...
 Too Technical for Me November 5, 2006
9 out of 15 found this review helpful
The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies is well written and is a good book if you are looking for something very technical and mechanical. I was disappointed with the book. I thought it would offer chart set ups or set ups per technical indicators. Instead, it offered codes, etc for setting up mechanical systems.
 Research oriented traders, read this one!! December 27, 2005
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Wow! For the research oriented person, this book is great! Not
only does it go over large variety of different approaches
to the commodities market, but the authors let you know the
pitfalls and traps to various methods of evaluating the markets.
The book is written in a concise manner that allows quick naviagation
and further study of any desired topics. The authors have
documented their sources well and really covered a lot of ground!
A *must* read for traders! *AND* I was interested in
the companion CD, called the number listed on the web site
and got to speak with one of the authors! He was very helpful
and answered all my questions right away! You can't beat
that for service with a book!
Best Book on Building Trading Strategies December 19, 2005
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is by far the most complete and advanced work I've read on the subject. However, read Robert Pardo's "Design, Testing, and Optimization of Trading Systems" first if you are new to backtesting.
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