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Lionel Issen
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----- Original Message -----
From: "W Lake" <wlake@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 11:30 PM
Subject: Stats
> Thanks for your emails
>
> It sounds as if you are getting "nickled and dimed" reading the TASC and
> Futures Mag articles. Even a series of articles will make the technique
> sound very interesting but not give you enough background to really
> understand why it works or doesn't work. That can be dangerous in the
> markets that you are interested in <G> ... Ruggiero, Stridsman and Holder,
> that you mentioned, can run right past you in the space of a couple of
> sentences.
>
> Re the Regression and other stats articles ... you might want to get a
copy
> of "Statistics for Managers using Excel". It's about 800 pages and it will
> help you see how all those "neat" ideas fit together. I think that there's
a
> second edition out now. My copy is an updated 1998 edition. I think that
it
> cost me $9 in the used book store. For anything that XL can't handle, you
> can easily run the data into KyPlot.
>
> There are also older introductory Linear Algebra textbooks available very
> cheaply, especially if you can find books that are application based.
There
> are two calculus books that I like that may help. One is published by
> Barrons and is management and application oriented and the other is
geometry
> based, since you are also visually based in your analysis.
>
> I use Derive 5 for all of that sort of math stuff. The user interface is
> very easy to use and you can probably find a free copy.
>
> Of course, Kaufman's 2 big books will help you make the conversion from
the
> textbooks back to trading. Run his code into TS, most of his code is
pretty
> clean and you shouldn't have any difficulty. There are the odd bits in
> Quattro that are pretty easy to convert to XL. You might wanted to
consider
> that some of the mag writers don't use the same code that they publish.
>
> Best regards
>
> Walter
>
>
>
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