Full Title: Trading Systems
Author: Bruce Babcock
Publisher/Date: Irwin (1989)
List Cost/Pages: $ Hardcover / 316 pages
Cover Notes:
Comprehensive and authoritative description of the theory, creation, and use of mechanical trading systems. Presents historical tests of various trading systems approaches in 10 markets over a 5 year period.
Stendahl Notes:
Bruce Babcock in my mind was a legend who past away too soon. Bruce’s book Trading Systems is well organized and complete. It describes a wide variety of systems and provides historical trading performance. As the book was published back in 1989, Bruce used System Writer Plus (now TradeStation) and CompuTrac (Tim Slater’s program) to design and test his systems. As I’ve been around awhile myself, I too used both of these programs back in early 90’s … so this book is near and dear to my heart. So if you are interested in simple, eloquent and pragmatic trading systems then this is the book for you. Back in the day I used a few of these systems as starting point for some of my own trading systems.
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