To: Ron  who wrote (142 ) 8/19/2018 4:44:05 PM From: John Pitera     Read Replies (1)  | Respond to    of 147  Ron thank you so much for posting that link. i have have been to the forum before as I am registered as JJP1618  .....  kind of obvious  huh -g- as I start reading through the threads on there...I believe I will be spending some time there as Tradestation really is a tremendous platform once you have the learning curve under control...  and that can really take a couple of years.......    or at least  the more you use it and watch people like Larry williams give webinars and see the systems they have built and are selling for very reasonable money..... what also is quite cool is that with some of the systems you buy, trade state will redate commision money for the product cost.....    Kevin Davey, who has one of the best books I have ever read....   he uses trade state exclusively, won the 2006 Robbins Futures World Trading cup. and he generated triple digit returns, 3 years in a row... Kevin gives really great Webinars on Tradestation and he commented he has a laptop that is doing system testing 24/7.....   he gets the rough initial data and monte carlo outcomes and other data points , such as maximum drawdown.... and he is always looking for the smoothest equity growth line... Not a jagged one that is oscillating up and down!...   His comment was that algorithmic trading systems are changing all the time and people using them have to adapt....   from my perspective, I'm not just looking at charts  , technical set up, and algorithmic trading systems. I am looking letting the central bankers tell me what they think is going on and they do telegraph what they are going to do, as well from my global macro Long dated FX and bond trading experiences at Citibank and Chase ....  plus seeing how FA's operate at Morgan stanley and UBS...  it gives me a blend of  things to look at.... and also it helps to know who knows what they are talking about and who is playing Liar's poker where they have big massive positions they have to unload to the public. LinkedIn has a Invitation only Members Group that I applied to and have joined..there are 533 members, however, it is not really a group post environment.... the owner of the SIG.... is an expert programmer in easy language which is the development programing language for tradestation. I exchange the occasional email with Patrick and the occasional tweet...   He commented to me that Tradestation was all that he uses.....  he 1st night in Vegas in March of 2000 he wanted me to come up to his room to see his 6000 pages of chart set ups...  and trading techniques.  i was too tired to do it..... and then the opportunity got away from us... we have communicated over the years, and I spent the a weekend with him at the RENO SI Piffer blow out in Nov 1999    and then again in Las Vegas in March of 2000.... he's a classy guy....   his wife Jackie has been the head of the National Council of Geocosmic Researchers... and thus she cross polinates with my lone time astro market friends, Arch Crawford, Bill Sarubi, Tom Wallace, Michael Jenkins.. Robert Hand.. ( whom I have met....  i can not call him a friend.. he was quite tight with Bill S. as they built Astrolabe  together....) Just to circle back around I also use stockcharts. also am a fundamental guy   and find the material in  Bloomberg, the WSJ,Barron's....Drudge...Reuters  and a bunch of other places.... plus the constant in flow  of material that my array of friends, former colleagues, partners...etc....      But to sum it up.... the Tradestation threads have some great content on them.... Robert E. Pardo is another great guy to follow for systems trading...  He was the first individual who was not working at a big investment bank who in the early 1990's developed trading systems and made real money trading with them.Robert Pardo  (born 26 April 1951) is an American   investor  and   author . He received his B.A. in History, Philosophy, and Sociology from   Northwestern University .  Pardo is a recognized expert in the design and testing of trading strategies and computerized trading applications.  He began his career developing   systematic trading  software in the early 1980s. He wrote the first edition of Design, Testing, and Optimization of Trading in 1991 and released the second edition in 2008 published by Wiley Trading. He had originally discussed the concept of   Walk Forward Optimization  which is an important aspect in present trading markets.   pardocapital.com, Robert Pardo, CEO and President  Featured article about Robert Pardo  "Bob Pardo: perfecting a model. (Trader Profile)", article by Daniel P. Collins in  Futures   October 1, 2002 behind paywall with free trial offer. Pardo Capital has launched two new futures programs  Robert Pardo interview from February 2012  Top Trader 2008  many, many thanks... John  Building Winning Algorithmic Trading Systems, + Website: A Trader's Journey From Data Mining to Monte Carlo Simulation to Live Trading (Wiley Trading) 1st Edition by  Kevin J. Davey   (Author)4.3 out of 5 stars      86 customer reviews  ISBN-13: 978-1118778982 ISBN-10: 1118778987 Why is ISBN important?  Have one to sell? 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