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Function Xaverage(dataList, prevXavg, length, index, offset)Function Xaverage(dataList, prevXavg, length, index, offset)If prevXavg = 0 ThenXaverage = dataList(index - offset)ElseXaverage = prevXavg + 2 / length * (dataList(index- offset) - prevXavg)End IfEnd FunctionSub MACD(dataList, shortLen, longLen, smooth, myMacd, mySmoothMacd,xMavg1, xMavg2, index, offset)Sub MACD(dataList, shortLen, longLen, smooth, myMacd,mySmoothMacd, xMavg1, xMavg2, index, offset)If xMavg1 = 0 And xMavg2 = 0 ThenxMavg1 = dataList(index - offset)xMavg2 = dataList(index - offset)myMacd = 0mySmoothMacd = 0ElsexMavg1 = xMavg1 + 2 / shortLen * (dataList(index- offset) - xMavg1)xMavg2 = xMavg2 + 2 / longLen * (dataList(index- offset) - xMavg2)myMacd = xMavg1 - xMavg2mySmoothMacd = mySmoothMacd + 2 / smooth * (myMacd - mySmoothMacd)End IfEnd Sub307EXCEL SYSTEM BACKTESTERSub Stochastic(kLen, dLen, dSloLen, kVal, dVal, dSloVal, index, offset)Sub Stochastic(kLen, dLen, dSloLen, kVal, dVal, dSloVal, index, offset)Dim index1, index2, hh, ll, sum As DoubleDim i, j, k As IntegerDim kSto(100) As DoubleDim dSto(100) As DoubleindexPt = index - offsetindex1 = kLen + dLenindex2 = dLen - 1www.rasabourse.com
308EXCEL SYSTEM BACKTESTERIf (kVal + dVal + dSloVal = 0) Then’seed the original Sto ValueFor i = 1 To dLen + dSloLen - 1hh = 0ll = 999999For k = indexPt - (index1 - (i - 1)) ToindexPt - (index2 - (i - 1))If (myHigh(k) > hh) Then hh = myHigh(k)If (myLow(k) < ll) Then ll = myLow(k)Next kIf (hh - ll = 0) Then hh = ll + 1kSto(i) = (myClose(indexPt - (index2 - (i - 1)))- ll) / (hh - ll) * 100#kVal = kSto(i)If (i > dLen) Thensum = 0#For j = i - 2 To isum = sum + kSto(j)Next jdSto(i) = sum / dLendVal = dSto(i)End IfIf (i >= dLen + dSloLen - 1) Thensum = 0#For j = i - 2 To isum = sum + dSto(j)Next jdSloVal = sum / dSloLenEnd IfNext iElsehh = 0ll = 999999For i = indexPt - (kLen - 1) To indexPtIf (myHigh(i) > hh) Then hh = myHigh(i)If (myLow(i) < ll) Then ll = myLow(i)Next ikVal = (myClose(indexPt) - ll) / (hh - ll) * 100dVal = ((dVal * (dLen - 1)) + kVal) / dLendSloVal = ((dSloVal * (dSloLen - 1)) + dVal) / dSloLenEnd IfEnd Subwww.rasabourse.com
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THE ULTIMATEALGORITHMICTRADING SYST
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THE ULTIMATEALGORITHMICTRADING SYST
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CONTENTSAbout the authorIntroductio
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Reproduction 238Mutation 240Using G
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ABOUT THE AUTHORIt was March of 198
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Well that was 27 years ago and I di
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xivINTRODUCTION TO THE ULTIMATE ALG
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CHAPTER 1Introductionto TradingAlgo
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However, at this introductory stage
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completely above the tableau. If th
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Don’t get bogged down trying to u
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checking account was down the $10K,
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Short Liquidation Condition—What
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One BarStrengthTwo BarStrengthThree
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and inexperienced trading system pr
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Input = 6StartInput = 4Input <> 6In
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The diagram in Figure 1.4 looks cle
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observed. If the latter criterion i
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Start or NewBarIs C >AVG(C,200)YesN
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CHAPTER 2Stochastics andAverages an
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The basic theory behind the ADX is
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4. Divide the 14-day smoothed plus
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if myADX < 35 thenif MarketPosition
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TABLE 2.1Performance of Directional
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FIGURE 2.4Source: TradeStationExamp
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Start orNew BarIs RSI < 30YesBuy Ma
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RSI DivergenceMarket Continuing to
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If marketPosition =-1 and close > e
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TABLE 2.3Performance of RSI Failure
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Start orNew BarIs Slow %K CrossingA
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TABLE 2.4Performance of Stochastic
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it is boundless extended readings a
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TABLE 2.5Performance of CCI algorit
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FIGURE 2.11Source: TradeStationThe
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We will discuss moving averages in
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MACDAvg = XAverage( MyMACD,9)MACDDi
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FIGURE 2.13Source: TradeStationThre
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FIGURE 2.14Source: TradeStationA 60
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TABLE 2.8 Performance of Bollinger
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If filterTrade = false thenIf close
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Keltner ChannelChester Keltner brou
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FIGURE 2.15Source: TradeStationKelt
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TABLE 2.12Best Parameter Sets of Ke
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CHAPTER 3Complete TradingAlgorithms
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Box 3.1 Turtle System #1Buy one tic
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TABLE 3.1Turtle System 1 without LT
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TABLE 3.3Turtle System 1 with LTLF
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TABLE 3.4Tandem Performance of Turt
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Pause the Battle—Let’s Talk Ris
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Box 3.3 Battle Royale—And the Com
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TABLE 3.5Single Moving Average (SMA
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TABLE 3.8Donchian Channel Breakout
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we have, because who has the time t
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%Winners ShortLen InterLen StopDoll
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on a peak. This demonstrates a lack
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The correlation coefficients range
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TABLE 3.13The Best Results for the
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TABLE 3.17Results for the Donchian
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FIGURE 3.5AmiBroker’s walk-forwar
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direction of the 200-day moving ave
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range day and initially puts on two
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CHAPTER 4Introduction toAmiBroker
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Things All Programmers Need to Know
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expressions deal with a string of c
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AFL uses functions DateNum(), DateT
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to Short and Cover as well. If you
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FIGURE 4.2The AmiBroker Editor wind
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to the user. Instead of having to r
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This is where you can change the va
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shortMav = MA(C,avgLen1);longMav =
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code. This is a very difficult thin
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the order of the arrays. I admit th
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FIGURE 4.17The AFL Code Wizard ‘
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■■■This time click on is grea
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This should look very similar to th
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before a single line of code is typ
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COND3 = C > MA(C,100);COND1 = cente
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FIGURE 5.1trading.Once you define t
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GetDataGET DATACOMPONENTLoad Data i
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152USING MICROSOFT EXCEL TO BACKTES
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performance of the trading system.
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156 FIGURE 5.9 The Visual Basic Edi
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FIGURE 5.12This error message appea
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End IfIf marketPosition = -1 ThenCa
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■■moc—Market On Close order.
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Simple Moving Average Crossover usi
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Call Trade(ExitShort, "S-ATR Prof",
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168USING PYTHON TO BACKTEST YOUR AL
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It works well on both Unix and Wind
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function modules and some are a lit
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inclusive, the number of iterations
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176This indicator is programmed as
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if prices[curBar - offset] < prices
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All these files deal with opening a
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entryPrice,fileList,entryPrice,entr
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Python has a ton of reusable code a
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186USING PYTHON TO BACKTEST YOUR AL
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portfolioClass. These classes are n
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percent wins, number of trades, and
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>>> c = a + b>>> cAfter you hit ent
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you don’t need to know exactly ho
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Shorting occurs when the low of the
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That was the long entry logic only
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FIGURE 6.4brackets.A Python run-tim
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prevAvg2 and today’s avg1 must be
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■ TradeStation IDE204AN INTRODUCT
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206AN INTRODUCTION TO EASYLANGUAGEt
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FIGURE 7.5The algorithm with a sing
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the Vars statement and initialize t
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TABLE 7.1EasyLanguage Keywords and
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214AN INTRODUCTION TO EASYLANGUAGEF
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standard deviations. In our example
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218AN INTRODUCTION TO EASYLANGUAGEt
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into a project makes it easier to a
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If marketPosition =-1 thenbeginend;
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or program any trading idea. Practi
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CHAPTER 8Genetic Optimization,Walk
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superfast processors, searching a l
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This equation involves four unknown
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For generation = 1 To 100 ' total g
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Converting Fitness in Terms of Slic
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'the 6 darts landedRandomizeFor l =
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roulette(i) = Rnd(1#)If roulette(i)
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selection and reproduction may even
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This is just one possible solution.
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history of each market. This test w
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Crossover RateThe rate that determi
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TradeStation’s and AmiBroker’s
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TABLE 8.3In-Sample Testing TA2Le Se
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Page 279 and 280: Calculating Start Trade Drawdown Wi
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Page 323 and 324: 312PYTHON SYSTEM BACKTESTERdef calc
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