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Programming trading rules into your system

What topics are covered in this chapter?

Writing the trading rules is the simple first step and programming is easy once you know how. Testing and simulations are all part of the practice. Analysing the results and fine tuning the trading system will be discussed in this chapter but the hardest part is to follow the trading signals they generate without emotion and deviation. So here we look at:

  • simple moving average trading rules
  • BBZ trading rules
  • reading and analysing test results.

What are the objectives?

The obvious objective of having a trading system is to make life simple and trading accountable. A trading system is the only professional way to go about trading. Before you start trading ...

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