Book Description

Today's financial and capital markets are moving faster than ever before, and it is changing all the time. We have to trade faster, more swiftly than ever before. The need for a proven statistical trading edge that generates net abnormal returns in the long run is greater than ever. This new book is a guide to build algorithm trading models that can decipher market patterns and detect trends in the current rapidly changing market. With the concept and principles used by professionals in financial institutions, the book places everyone on level ground with institutional traders and profit just as much. This book discusses how this statistical trading edge can be built in your own designed do-it-yourself algorithmic technical trading model.What makes and marks an exceptional trader from an average trader is a proven statistical trading edge of producing positive net return in the long run. An exceptional trader is not born with a natural gaming talent to time purchases and sales. Rather he or she is someone who is an extremely keen observer of market price patterns. The exceptional trader does his or her homework by researching the markets and backtesting technical algorithm trading systems. Anyone can be an exceptional trader if he or she dedicates and commits the time to study and practise technical analysis in the science of trading.Therefore, Algorithm Trading 101 begins with market data and technical analysis which are important components of market analysis because it is the cornerstone to timing each and every trade. Algorithm Trading 101 is all about guiding the average trader to use the right technical trading indicator in order to make abnormal profits. It is about how a beginner can distinguish herself or himself from the crowd and make exceptional profits using technical analysis, its indicators and algorithm models.This book is all about trading. Making profit has nothing to do with random luck. Luck can not be disguised and perceived as skill. Nothing is random. Everything is about patterns repeating themselves, in many different ways and in many different forms. This book is about the patterns in commodities and futures markets. This book is about how anyone can identify the patterns or trends and trade on them as much as possible with net positive return after accounting for transaction costs and precious time spent. It is about achieving the best possible returns for your capital, time and money.This book is about you, being at the right market, at the right time, timing your purchase or your sale in the equity, commodities, futures, currencies, cryptocurrencies, any market that trends directionally. Your chances of being right and riding on the right decision, timing and action all add up to net profitability over the years, after paying yourself for the time, effort and hard work. Trading is a serious profession. You can do as well as the experts - perhaps even better. This book is a succinct guide for the individual investor. The trading rule is: make huge unlimited profit and small limited loss. In increasingly competitive financial markets, knowing and applying the right indicators to tell you the signs of the times, gives you the trading edge, that is, the tool, technique and insight to decipher the patterns or trends in the markets before the formation is completed. You have to be ahead of the other equally competitive, well-informed traders to make your trade a winner and yourself a successful trader in the long run, in the years ahead when others have dropped out of this mad race.Welcome to the exciting world of trading. To have real fun in trading, you must have the know-how and the technique to make consistent profits for it to be a long term enjoyment, business and livelihood. Have fun. Enjoy your trading and your life. All the very best for your trading.