Greetings
from NeuroDimension!
The World Leader in Neural Network Software
This issue of the TradingSolutions
newsletter highlights the release of Version 1.2 and the grand opening of the
TradingSolutions Financial Bookstore, along with tips and techniques for using
TradingSolutions more effectively.
In this issue you’ll find:
Product
Upgrade Announcement
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TradingSolutions v1.2 Now Available
What’s New
and News?
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Grand Opening of the Financial Bookstore
* Introducing Trading Styles
Products
and Events of Interest
* TASC Traders’ Tips in Solution Library
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Neural 101 Website
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TradingSolutions v1.2 Build 010412 is
now available from NeuroDimension. As with previous releases, Version 1.2 helps
you make better trading decisions by combining traditional technical analysis
with state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies.
Version 1.2 introduces many new features and
enhancements, including:
* New, easier-to-follow
step-by-step tutorials, including a quick “big picture” introduction.
* Updated sample data with
models demonstrating several profitable trading signals.
* New signal analysis options, including:
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Trade with an entire account, a fixed amount, or a fixed number of
shares.
* Simulate paying a
fixed commission or a percentage of the trade price.
* Evaluate
increasing profits using limit orders.
* Evaluate
minimizing losses using stop orders.
* “Trading Styles” combining
investment, commission, and trading field settings.
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Import intraday data from files and used it the same way as end-of-day
data.
(Real-time streaming import and alerts
not yet available.)
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Dates now formatted based on local Windows format settings.
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Logarithmic charts, simulated slippage, improved file importing, and
much more!
Upgrading to TradingSolutions Version
1.2 is free for current customers. No
additional activation codes are required to upgrade to the new version. Simply
install the upgrade and start enjoying the new features. Users of the free
evaluation version can also upgrade to Version 1.2 and receive 60 more days
to evaluate TradingSolutions.
For information on upgrading to the
latest version, as well as a complete list of the changes made in this release,
see http://www.tradingsolutions.com/download/updates.html
You can determine the current version
and build of your TradingSolutions installation by selecting About
TradingSolutions from the Help menu.
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The TradingSolutions Financial Bookstore is now open
on the TradingSolutions web site and to help us celebrate, we’re inviting you
in with a very special offer. Simply purchase ANY title before the end of April
and receive three free titles from our bookstore. You’ll get the
following titles FREE with your purchase:
* Commodity Options: Spectacular Profits
with Limited Risk (reg. $29.95)
* High Probability Chart Reading with John
Murphy on audio tape (worth $19.95)
* Understanding Electronic Day Trading
(a $21.95 value)
That’s a $72 dollar value, FREE with your order. To
take advantage of this special offer, use the following link to enter our
bookstore and place an order:
http://www.invest-store.com/tradingsolutions/tl0416.html
Note: You must use this link to receive this special offer!
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What are Trading Styles?
TradingSolutions v1.2 introduces a new feature called
“Trading Styles” that combines the individual settings of investment,
commission, and trading value fields into one named object. For example, if you
typically trade $5000, pay $20 commissions, and only want to make Long trades,
you could wrap all of these settings into one thing called “My Trading Style”.
Then, whenever you want to analyze or optimize signals in TradingSolutions for
your specific style of trading, simply select “My Trading Style” wherever those
settings are needed.
What Can I Do with Trading Styles?
With trading styles, you can now simulate your style of
trading better than ever. Since these settings are combined into one
easy-to-update object, TradingSolutions is now able to provide many more
options without leaving you lost in the interface. For example, there are new
settings such as trading using fixed dollar amounts and paying percentage
commissions that you can set once and use any number of times.
Another advantage of trading styles is that you can now
easily experiment with alternate approaches to trading to determine if they
would be more profitable. For example, you can create trading styles to
experiment with Stop orders to see if they can help you reduce your short-term
losses. You can experiment with Limit orders to see if waiting for better entry
prices can improve your long-term profits. You can even add slippage to your
trades to simulate not getting the best trading prices. And, you can do this
all without losing your everyday settings.
Optimizing with Trading Styles
One of the features of trading styles that has generated a
lot of excitement is the new Evaluation Values. These settings allow you to
specify what values are important to you when a signal is being optimized. By
default, signals are optimized for the highest profit. However, you can now
specify any combination of other characteristics as being important. For
example, you can include percent wins and number of trades in your optimization
strategy and even reduce the size of draw downs.
Our internal testing has shown some promising results with
optimizing on the Sharpe Ratio. If you are not familiar with it, the Sharpe
Ratio is the average percent change in equity of each bar over the standard
deviation of those changes. This makes it useful as a basic reward-to-risk
ratio. By optimizing on this value, the resultant trades have tended to have
more certainty and less volatility, especially when trading fixed amounts.
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Many TradingSolutions users read Technical Analysis of
Stocks and Commodities (TASC), the Traders’ Magazine. It’s a great way to
trade smarter with detailed information on trading strategies, charting
patterns, indicators, and computerized trading methods. As a free service to
our users, we arrange for the “Traders’ Tips” section of the magazine to
include tips and techniques for implementing many of the indicators found in
the magazine in TradingSolutions.
Each time a tip is included in the magazine, we also include
the implemented functions in the Solution Library on our web site. These
functions can be imported into either the full version or the evaluation
version of TradingSolutions and are completely free. Visit the Solution Library
now at: http://www.tradingsolutions.com/download/solution.html
If you aren’t familiar with Technical Analysis of Stocks
and Commodities, we encourage you to visit their web site at: http://www.traders.com
Neural 101
is a free educational web site on trading stock and futures markets with neural
networks. It includes message areas, links, trading indicators, systems and
scans. The message areas include special forums on building trading systems,
using neural networks, and even discussing tips, tricks, and ideas for using
TradingSolutions.
NeuroDimension
encourages the use of this free resource to foster discussions between
TradingSolutions users. You can visit Neural 101 at http://www.neural101.com. You can go
directly to the TradingSolutions section by selecting “TS” from the top menu.
The message forum can then be reached by selecting “Message Forum” from the
left-hand menu.
Have an event or product you would like to announce? Contact
us at submissions@nd.com.
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suggestions concerning this newsletter, our web site, or part of the
NeuroDimension product line. Write to us at: feedback@nd.com
Have questions about TradingSolutions? Send your questions
to: info@tradingsolutions.com
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