Black Book Content
Preface
1 Dealing with money
Trading 101
„There’s gold in them hills!”
Ticks, Bars, Candles
How does a trading system work?
Technical analysis – sense and nonsense
Conclusion
2 Programming in 3 hours
Hour 1: Variables
Some sort of pocket calculator
Hour 2: Functions
Passing variables to and from functions
The printf function
Hour 3: Branches and loops
Loops
Conclusion
3 Follow the trend
A basic trend trading strategy
Buying and selling
Testing a strategy
Analyzing the trades
The Market Meanness Index
Performance measurement
The Monte Carlo method
Conclusion
4 Against the trend
The counter trend algorithm
Plotting signals
The dominant cycle
Training
Walk-forward optimization
Beware of bias
Rules of thumb
Conclusion
5 The money breeder
A portfolio system
Portfolio analysis
Money Management
The square root rule
Conclusion
6 Candles to kill for
Detecting patterns
Ready for Price Action
Reality check
The bell curve
Conclusion
7 Anatomy of a scam robot
The robot script
Distributing the profits
The dreaded martingale method
How to get rich with a losing system
Conclusion
8 Developing own systems
The development process
Strategies that work
Strategies that don't work
Regular income by trading
Appendix
The Market Meanness Index
Tips and tricks
Useful books