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• Neural Network Pair Trading by Marge Sherald

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Neural Network Pair Trading by Marge Sherald Pair trading is a market-neutral trading strategy. But how do you find the right pair? Using neural networks, of course. Are you taking a second look at market-neutral trading systems in today's difficult markets? Pair trading is popular, but finding the right pair is more challenging. Neural networks offer an alternative to traditional pair-matching methods. The usual pair-trading strategies speculate on future convergence of a price spread between similar securities. Once a pair is identified, the customary rule is to buy one security and sel...

AUTHOR: Marge SheraldDATE: FEB 2010SUBJECT: Neural Networks

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• At The Close by Marge Sherald

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:8 (98): At The Close by Marge Sherald What do you think of when you think "cocoon"? Is it small, fetal, round, cozy ? formative? When trader Kenneth Branch uses the term, more often than not he uses it in regard to trading, in reference to the growing forces within the markets. He looks for tradable financial instruments while they are still in the forming stage, covered by a "protective covering" of sorts until they are ready to burst forth in full flower. As he explains it, in the cocoon stage of market development, "there is a supply of any given security that ma...

AUTHOR: Marge SheraldDATE: AUG 2006SUBJECT: At the Close

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• Turbocharge It! by Marge Sherald

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (48-51): Turbocharge It! by Marge Sherald Tired of spending too much time in front of your computer? Here's how you can cut that time and fine-tune your indicators and trading rules. As a trader, you know the process of developing and testing trading systems never ends if you want to keep up with changing markets. You spend countless hours in front of your computer fine-tuning indicators and trading rules to fit your trading style and increase your profits. In this article, you'll learn how to let a genetic algorithm do a lot of your work, save time, and turbocha...

AUTHOR: Marge SheraldDATE: AUG 2005SUBJECT: Trading Systems

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• Trading Fuzzy Patterns by Marge Sherald

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Trading Fuzzy Patterns by Marge Sherald Here's how you can apply fuzzy logic and increase your profits. Ask around and you'll discover that every trader has a chart pattern he or she swears by, one that will indicate what the next big move in the market will be. But ask those traders to precisely define their patterns, and you'll find that although each pattern looks similar, they do not exactly match any set definition. This makes pattern recognition an ambiguous or "fuzzy" task, which may be why fuzzy logic is beginning to be used by traders to recognize chart patterns. Fuzzy logic is not...

AUTHOR: Marge SheraldDATE: SEP 2002SUBJECT: Artificial Intelligence