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Here are all of the Expert Design Studio (EDS) files and descriptions that I wrote for the Traders Tips section of Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine over the years. Unfortunately we are not able to post the original TASC article as they are copyrighted. However, you can purchase individual articles online on the Traders.com store. You can also purchase a very handy DVD with every Stocks and Commodities article ever published.

For the last several years, I have coded the AIQ section of the Traders Tips in the Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine. For many of these articles, I have gone beyond just hashing out the code but have used the ideas to generate and test trading systems in a stock trading environment. Unfortunately the magazine has of late, decided to truncate much of what is submitted by the software companies. To remedy this and to provide a better reference to these studies, please see

Most months I usually include the EDS code file for the trading system or indicator, and then, if applicable, I try to do a backtest on a portfolio of stocks (usually one of my standard lists like the current Nasdaq 100 stocks or S&P 500 stocks). Where appropriate, I will show a backtest of the long trades and then a separate backtest of the short trades, each with a portfolio level equity curve. As you can see from many of the backtests, the indicators that sound good in theory, don't always work out when applied in a way one would have to trade them in the real world on a portfolio of stocks. Many times the author writes about an indicator or idea, and then I take it another step further and make up my own exit rules. Other times, if the author does provide a backtest, our backtests may show different performance results based on trading software, commission and slippage, or other backtesting factors.

UPDATE: Starting September 2008, we will be doing the Traders Tips for Traders Studio. For more on Traders Studio, please see their website here: http://www.tradersstudio.com/ .

We try to post these articles as we receive them but if you don't see the current article listed, please don't hesitate to let us know, and we'll post it ASAP. Thanks, and enjoy!:

2010:

The Flat Base Breakout System (for AIQ from January 2010)
Empirical Mode Decomposition (for Traders Studio March 2010)

Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - March, 2010

The 350 Swing Trade
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - February, 2010

The Vortex Indicator
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - January, 2010

2009:

Making the Most of a Trend with the Disparity Index
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - December, 2009

Soybean Seasonal Channel Breakout System
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - November, 2009

Volume-Weighted MACD Histogram
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - October, 2009

The Pivot Detector Oscillator, Simplified
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - September, 2009

Combining DMI And Moving Average For A EUR/USD Trading System
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - August, 2009

Double 7s / Trailing Resistance and Support Stops
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - July, 2009

Average True Range Trailing Stops
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - June, 2009

Using Initial Stop Methods
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - May, 2009

Profit With High Relative Strength Mutual Funds
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - April, 2009

Trade System Evaluation
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - March, 2009

Trading the Aussie
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - February, 2009

The Megan Ratio
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - January, 2009

2008:

Trading with the Heikin-Ashi Candlestick Oscillator
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - December, 2008

MOCS Exit Indicator (AIQ) and Corona Charts (Traders Studio)
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - November, 2008

ARSI, The Asymmetrical RSI
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - October, 2008

The Midas Touch
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - September, 2008

Premier Stochastic Oscillator
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - August, 2008

Leader of the MACD
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - July, 2008

Profit With ETFs
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - June, 2008

The Quest for Reliable Crossovers
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - May, 2008

RSI Bands
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - April, 2008

Confirming Price Trend
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - March, 2008

Trading Divergences
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - February, 2008

Profit Locking and Relative Price Channel
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - January, 2008

2007:

(December skipped)

Short-Term Volume and Price Oscillator
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - November, 2007

Tandem Studies on Market Movement
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - October, 2007

Trading Trendline Breaks (Part 2)
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - September, 2007

Constructing A Template For System Management
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - August, 2007

Between Price and Volume
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - July, 2007

How Effective Are Rectangles?
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - June, 2007

Moving Averages: Long on Talk, Short on Action
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - May, 2007

Two-Point Problem of the Rate of Change
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - April, 2007

Anticipating Moving Average Crossovers (Part 2)
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - March, 2007

Anticipating Moving Average Crossovers (Part 1)
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - February, 2007

Entropic Analysis
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - January, 2007

2006:

Stochastics with Long-Term EMA Filter
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - December, 2006

Building Automatic Trendlines
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - November, 2006

Relative Spread Strength As A Long-Term Cyclic Tool
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - October, 2006

Trading With an Adaptive Price Zone
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - September, 2006

Modeling the Market
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - August, 2006

The Wilson Relative Price Channel
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - July, 2006

The (Mis)Behavior of Markets / Brownian Model Strategy
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - June, 2006

Cross-Market Evaluations with Normalized Average True Range
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - May, 2006

The Average Peak Excursion
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - April, 2006

Trading Trends with Bollinger Bands Z-Test System
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - March, 2006

Self-Adjusting RSI
Stocks and Commodities Traders Tips - February, 2006

Swiss Army Knife Indicator
(No AIQ Trader's Tips for January 2006)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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