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Re: re easylanguage books



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Could anyone please indicate as to the availability of these 14 volumes on 
CD. Would like to buy or borrow.
Thanks.


>From: "Cameron Jones" <ctj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: "omega list" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: re easylanguage books
>Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:35:41 +1000
>
>
>So has anyone got 14 volumes on cd ?
>I am willing to buy or trade.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Seth [mailto:alpert@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 7:34 AM
>To: omega-list
>Subject: EasyLanguage books
>
>
>I agree with the "2 on a 10-point scale" rating of the Putt and Tennis
>books.  They're ok as references but not for learning how to use
>EasyLanguage.  Starting as a non-programmer, I found the EasyLanguage 
>User's
>Manual and instructional video narrated by Bill Cruz that came with v.4 to
>be very good because they contained a lot of examples of how to do things.
>I was able to write my first (very simple) trading system the first time I
>sat down with the EasyLanguage User's Manual.  Although EL has been 
>upgraded
>in TS2000i the v.4 stuff would still be valuable for beginners.  By far the
>best source for learning EasyLanguage, for me at least, has been the System
>Trading and Development Club, a bimonthly or quarterly publication of Omega
>Research which eventually reached 14 volumes.  I think they have
>discontinued it but as of last summer it was being offered as a CD with all
>14 volumes on it.  Each volume contained from 8 or 10 trading systems,
>complete with entry and exit signals and accompanying text explaining how
>the system was supposed to work and line-by-line explanations of what the 
>EL
>code was doing at each step. I'm not endorsing the "systems" and indicators
>in STAD, but its the best published source that I know of for learning EL
>(by example).
>Seth
>