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Microsoft Excel for Stock and Option Traders: Build Your Own Analytical Tools for Higher Returns
- By Jeff Augen
- Published Apr 18, 2011 by FT Press.
- Copyright 2011
- Dimensions: 5-3/8" x 8"
- Pages: 208
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-713182-8
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-713182-2
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Product Author Bios
Jeff Augen (Carmel, NY), now a private investor and writer, has spent over a decade building a unique intellectual property portfolio of algorithms and software for technical analysis of derivatives, including 1+ million lines of computer code embodying powerful new options trading strategies. As founding executive of IBM’s Life Sciences Computing business, he defined a growth strategy leading to $1.2B of new revenue. His books include Trading Realities, Day Trading Options, and The Options Trader Workbook. He teaches advanced options at NYIF.
Trade more profitably by exploiting Microsoft Excel’s powerful statistical and data mining tools:
· Uncover subtle anomalies and distortions that signal profit opportunities
· Create powerful new custom indicators, alerts, and trading models
· Visualize and analyze huge amounts of trading data with just a few clicks
· Powerful techniques for every active investor who can use Excel
Now that high-speed traders dominate the market, yesterday’s slower-paced analysis strategies are virtually worthless. To outperform, individual traders must discover fleeting market trends and inefficiencies and act on them before they disappear. Five years ago, this required multimillion-dollar data mining and analytical infrastructures. Today, traders can use Excel with the help of world-class trader Jeff Augen’s Microsoft Excel for Stock and Option Traders: Build your Own Analytical Tools for Higher Returns.
Augen shows how to use Excel 2007 or 2010 to uncover hidden correlations and reliable trade triggers based on subtle anomalies and price distortions, create and test new hypotheses others haven’t considered, and visualize data to reveal insights others can’t see!
"Jeff Augen turns things inside out in his remarkable and challenging book Microsoft Excel for Stock and Option Traders."
- John A. Sarkett, SFO Magazine, October 2011
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44 of 49 people found the following review helpful
Better trading through analysis,
This review is from: Microsoft Excel for Stock and Option Traders: Build Your Own Analytical Tools for Higher Returns (Hardcover)
Now that I'm trading options full time on my own, I need to do my own quantitative analysis. Despite having have an MBA in finance from Wharton and being in the investment management business for 25 years, I didn't have the practical, day to day skills to effectively analyze large datasets for the purpose of separating merely OK trades from the great ones (I had always relied on my firms' quantitative analysts to do the work for me). This book is ideal for traders who have come to realize that one must do at least some degree of proprietary quantitative research to consistently make money. In all his books (and I've read all of Jeff Augen's books--I think they are an immensely important body of work), Augen emphasizes that there are no shortcuts or easy formulas to successful trading--certainly none that you will find included in a trading platform or through some webinar. (If you believe that someone is going to give you the key to making easy money, Augen's books are not for...
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43 of 49 people found the following review helpful
A few good ideas...but..., By
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This review is from: Microsoft Excel for Stock and Option Traders: Build Your Own Analytical Tools for Higher Returns (Kindle Edition)
Having benefited significantly from his earlier two books (The Volatility Edge in Options Trading: New Technical Strategies for Investing in Unstable Markets and Trading Options at Expiration: Strategies and Models for Winning the Endgame), I was very eager to read this book - despite Augen's previous book Trading Realities: The Truth, the Lies, and the Hype In-Between was eminently forgettable. This one is mostly disappointing "book". The issue is not that there are no good ideas here - but the "book" at best has material sufficient for a decent paper in a...
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Long overdue: A must read for the serious option trader,
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This review is from: Microsoft Excel for Stock and Option Traders: Build Your Own Analytical Tools for Higher Returns (Hardcover)
"Microsoft Excel for Stock and Option Traders" is the first major book of its kind. It guides you step by step in building your own analytical tools for generating more profitable returns. Chapter 1 presents the value of utilizing this information. The chapter has 10 sub chapters that discuss how data mining can identify great trading opportunities. It provides examples of how using data on stocks and ETFs can allow you to identify unique changes that can be developed into proper trading strategies. This section demonstrates how using data entered into Microsoft Excel can be used in practical ways to benefit your trading. This is an excellent presentation of this material and has practical uses. Chapter 2 shows how to obtain quality data on stocks and ETFs and getting it into Excel for analysis. To my knowledge this Chapter is the first clear presentation of how to use these powerful tools to make our own data bases for analysis. This chapter has 12 sub chapters that cover...
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Introduction--The Value of Information 7
Chapter 2: The Basics 63
Chapter 3: Advanced Topics 153
Index 187
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