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1. there are several books with this and similar titles "Statistics for
Managers using Excel". Can you give a few more details like publisher,
author(s), isbn number, date. The prices for this or similar titles range
from about $20 to $100.
2. What are Kaufman's 2 big books? There is a new edition of "Trading
Systems and Methods", which is quite big. I've seen some of his other
books, while they are not petite, they weren't very big.
3. right on in paragraph 1.
Lionel Issen
lissen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
----- 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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