Reviews for The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies

The average rating for The Encyclopedia of Trading Strategies based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-05-28 00:00:00 Andrew H Sallet The core premise of this book is to promote mechanized futures trading systems over discretionary trading, in order to improve consistency in the trading results. Despite being a bit dated, coming from the early 200s, it has good coverage on system testing, and the approaches to entries (setups) and the various criteria for exits, including sample strategies. This book's title is a bit misleading, as I wouldn't consider it so much of an "Encyclopedia" (hardly a comprehensive coverage of most commonly occurring systems, nor any novelty insights here), rather providing a system development & testing methodology. Also, the verbose listing of C source code was distracting and raises the impression that the book's size was inflated to justify the high price.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-01-03 00:00:00 Andrej Blejec Terribly dated. This book was probably a good reference at the time it was printed, but now a dozen years later is is hard to find anything that is really useful in this massive tome. The authors spend time laying out how to use Excel, and a good chunk of the book is repetitions just in case you jumped ahead or skipped to a particular chapter. I don't need to be told what the column heading mean every chapter. There is a bit of insight into building a trading system, although I would think that something printed more recently would have more relevant information.