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“No serious trader can neglect the power of software to improve trading returns. This unique resource is invaluable in ensuring your trading profits reach their full potential. At last I know where to refer all those investors who ask me which software is best for them–buy this book first!”—Alpesh B. Patel, Columnist, The Financial Times; Author, Trading Online

“Paul Leo and Peter Temple have put together a wholly unique and useful book. As the authors and each of the developers interviewed would agree, one of the keys to trading success is to understand the development principles and philosophy behind the very tools we use.”—Ealine Knuth, Principal, Sequoia Trading, Inc.; IFTA Vice–Chairman, Europe & Africa

“The Ultimate Technical Trading Software is an excellent exploration of a selection of more advanced and complex approaches to trading the market. Here is an opportunity to explore the systems and the software and to understand how to evaluate trading system results.”—Daryl Guppy, Author of Market Trading Ta ctics and Better Stock Trading

Title Information

ISBN:

9780470820841

Pages:

400 pages

Format:

Hardback

Product Code:

16203

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Published:

17/06/2003

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About Paul Leo and Peter Temple

Paul Leo has worked in finance for 15 years. He began his career as a foreign exchange dealer at a major global bank before moving on to manage the treasury department at a multi–national corporation. He spent times as a financial correspondent at The Business Times, a leading financial newspaper in Singapore, subsequently returning to the banking industry as a financial product developer at a major Australian Bank and rising to become its Deputy Head, Private Banking.

Paul is currently the managing editor of Chartpoint – Asia’s first technical analysis magazine – published by Mediaedge Publishing Pte Ltd, a company which he co–founded.

Paul is a trained engineer and has a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) from the National University of Singapore and an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A.

Peter Temple had an 18–year career in fund management and investment analysis in London before turning to writing full time in 1988. He is the author of several books about investing, including the best–selling Magic Numbers – The 33 Key Ratios That Every Investor Should Know, a guide to calculating key financial ratios, and Hedge Funds – The Courtesans of Capitalism, both published by John Wiley & Sons.

His articles appear in a wide range of publications, including London’s Financial Times and Investors Chronicle, to which he has contributed a number of articles about investment software. He also edits the Zurich Club Communique, and investment newsletter.

 

Contents of The Ultimate Technical Trading Software

1. Technical trading software is the investor's new weapon

2. All-purpose technical trading software

3. Money management and market timing software

4. Financial astrology software

5. Gann technical trading software

6. Elliott wave technical trading software

7. Fibonacci technical trading software

8. Cycles analysis technical trading software

9. Multiple time-frame technical trading software

10. In search of the Holy Grail

Appendix 1. Evaluating technical trading software
Appendix 2. Technical trading bibliography
Appendix 3. Technical trading and software-related web sites
Appendix 4. Glossary of terms