Software

8 Software Applications every Poker Player should Have

By Mark | Published August 27th, 2010

If you play online poker without the proper tools you are leaving money on the table. It is important to keep good records and analyze your game and the game of your opponents. Today on “Poker Friday” I am going to go through the poker software I use on a daily basis. Poker Software Smart…

Poker, Luck & Trading

By Mark | Published August 20th, 2010

Usually on Fridays I post weekend links, for the next few weeks I will be posting articles related to poker. Poker and trading share some common similarities. If you have yet to read my previous poker articles I suggest you start with the following articles: Ten lessons I have learned about trading from poker. My…

Australian Taxation Calculator: Excel Spreadsheet

By Mark | Published August 18th, 2010

This post is for my Australian readers, but if you are from far away lands and are curios to see what us Australians pay in tax, feel free to download the spreadsheet.  As most of you will be aware the tax office made some minor adjustments to the thresholds and the martingale tax rate which…

Forex From Scratch FREE eBook

By Mark | Published August 13th, 2010

Forex From Scratch is an eBook designed to teach prospective currency traders the fundamentals. It is written in an easy to understand language and can be printed and read at your leisure. Essentially the eBook came about due to the volume of email I was getting asking for basic Forex information. I hope to revise…

Office 2010 Professional Edition Install

By Mark | Published June 28th, 2010

I was happy to get my copy of Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Edition today and will be putting it through its paces in the coming weeks. I am most excited about the new version of Excel and the addition of sparklines. Microsoft Office Professional 2010 contains the following applications: Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Microsoft PowerPoint…

Building an Automated FOREX System: Writing the Pseudo Code

By Mark | Published April 12th, 2010

In our last article we examined the basics of writing pseudo code and briefly looked at strategy design. If you have not read Designing a simple strategy and Pseudo Code you will need read that before continuing. In this article we will be translating the original Turtle Trader rules into pseudo code. This will ensure…

Timothy Sykes TIMFundamentals DVD Review

By Mark | Published April 9th, 2010

Timothy Sykes is nearly impossible to slap a conventional label on. He has managed to achieve what some people take a lifetime to achieve in just 28 years. He has been trader, hedge fund manager, reality TV star, publisher, author and now an educator. Sykes most notable achievement was his great trading gains made from…

Importing Stock Data From Yahoo Using Python

By Mark | Published April 2nd, 2010

As I discussed in my previous post I have started to explore the possibilities of using python for quant fiance applications. To be honest I have only spent about 2 hours working on this project.  In that short amount of time I have been able to: Connect to Interactive Brokers via IbPy. Connect and download…

Setting up The Perfect Python Development Environment

By Mark | Published March 29th, 2010

I am sure most of you by now have heard about the awesomeness of Python. Python is a lightweight programming / scripting language that is very simple to learn yet powerful. As you know if you have been reading this blog you would know I am looking to test and develop automated trading strategies and…

Book Review: Quantitative Trading How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business by Ernest Chan

By Mark | Published March 23rd, 2010

I have been meaning to read this Quantitative Trading book for quite sometime however I didn’t see the point until I got Matlab up and running. The book is a lot shorter then I expected yet still manages to cover some important topics. The table of contents is shown below: Quantitative Trading How to Build…

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