These books cover a wide range of technical analysis and trading topics. I have read and/or utilized ideas from these books for developing trading ideas and in help writing my own books. I wanted to see what I could get for less than $13 a book. I was pleasantly surprised at what I could get at Thriftbooks.com for this price or lower. If you go a little higher in price, you will get some really great deals too. Yes, these books are old, and I am sure I have left out some great names, but the bang for the buck is ridiculous.
Note – I captured the Add to Cart button in the IMAGES – IT DOES NOT WORK. I wanted to show the various editions of each book. Go to www.thriftbooks.com and search for the title or author and you should be able to find these books just like I did. Also check out amazon.com
The Gallacher, Taleb, McKay, Schwager, and Livermore (Lefevre) books are fun reads that give an honest view of trading in general. Elders’ book just needs to be any trader’s library.
The Edwards and Magee, Sklarew and Darvas books are classics.
Sunny Harris’ book is great for beginners.
The Stridsman and Rotella books are concrete methods to systematic trading.
Kaufman and McCormick/Katz are great reference books.
The Conway book has great EasyLanguage examples.
You can learn a lot from Schwager’s first book.
Learn optimization from Robert Pardo and money management from Fred Gehm’s classic.
If you go up in price a little bit, you will get Ralph Vince, Larry Williams, John Carter, Rober Carver, Andreas Clenow, and Ernie Chan. If you are just starting out, you must have a trading library, and this would be a great start for the first shelf.
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Get All Five Books in the Easing Into EasyLanguage Series - The Trend Following Edition is now Available!
Announcement – A Trend Following edition has been added to my Easing into EasyLanguage Series! This edition will be the fifth and final installment and will utilize concepts discussed in the Foundation editions. I will pay respect to the legends of Trend Following by replicating the essence of their algorithms. Learn about the most prominent form of algorithmic trading. But get geared up for it by reading the first four editions in the series now. Get your favorite QUANT the books they need!
The Foundation Edition. The first in the series.
This series includes five editions that covers the full spectrum of the EasyLanguage programming language. Fully compliant with TradeStation and mostly compliant with MultiCharts. Start out with the Foundation Edition. It is designed for the new user of EasyLanguage or for those you would like to have a refresher course. There are 13 tutorials ranging from creating Strategies to PaintBars. Learn how to create your own functions or apply stops and profit objectives. Ever wanted to know how to find an inside day that is also a Narrow Range 7 (NR7?) Now you can, and the best part is you get over 4 HOURS OF VIDEO INSTRUCTION – one for each tutorial.
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This book is ideal for those who have completed the Foundation Edition or have some experience with EasyLanguage, especially if you’re ready to take your programming skills to the next level. The Hi-Res Edition is designed for programmers who want to build intraday trading systems, incorporating trade management techniques like profit targets and stop losses. This edition bridges the gap between daily and intraday bar programming, making it easier to handle challenges like tracking the sequence of high and low prices within the trading day. Plus, enjoy 5 hours of video instruction to guide you through each tutorial.
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The Advanced Topics Edition delves into essential programming concepts within EasyLanguage, offering a focused approach to complex topics. This book covers arrays and fixed-length buffers, including methods for element management, extraction, and sorting. Explore finite state machines using the switch-case construct, text graphic manipulation to retrieve precise X and Y coordinates, and gain insights into seasonality with the Ruggiero/Barna Universal Seasonal and Sheldon Knight Seasonal methods. Additionally, learn to build EasyLanguage projects, integrate fundamental data like Commitment of Traders, and create multi-timeframe indicators for comprehensive analysis.
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The Day Trading Edition complements the other books in the series, diving into the popular approach of day trading, where overnight risk is avoided (though daytime risk still applies!). Programming on high-resolution data, such as five- or one-minute bars, can be challenging, and this book provides guidance without claiming to be a “Holy Grail.” It’s not for ultra-high-frequency trading but rather for those interested in techniques like volatility-based breakouts, pyramiding, scaling out, and zone-based trading. Ideal for readers of the Foundation and Hi-Res editions or those with EasyLanguage experience, this book offers insights into algorithms that shaped the day trading industry.
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For thirty-one years as the Director of Research at Futures Truth Magazine, I had the privilege of collaborating with renowned experts in technical analysis, including Fitschen, Stuckey, Ruggiero, Fox, and Waite. I gained invaluable insights as I watched their trend-following methods reach impressive peaks, face sharp declines, and ultimately rebound. From late 2014 to early 2020, I witnessed a dramatic downturn across the trend-following industry. Iconic systems like Aberration, CatScan, Andromeda, and Super Turtle—once thriving on robust trends of the 1990s through early 2010s—began to falter long before the pandemic. Since 2020 we have seen the familiar trends return. Get six hours of video instruction with this edition.
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