The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 was scheduled for 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854. This meeting was canceled due to weather.

Agenda:

Bob G. will host an open TradeStation troubleshooting and question & answer session, so bring your EasyLanguage and TradeStation questions! Plenty of time will be made available to answer everyone’s questions about how to get the most from TradeStation, whether it’s through EasyLanguage programming, platform configuration, operating system, networking or hardware.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, November 7, 2007 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

7:00pm – 7:15pm Introductions and Opening
The group will give brief introductions of the organizers for any new attendees. Time will be made available for dealing with membership dues and any other minor administration items, but not to exceed 15 minutes in total.

7:15pm – 9:00pm Forex: Three Strategy Concepts
Presenter: Bruce D.
In the September session we provided a broad overview of TradeStation’s new features for Forex. In this follow-up session we’ll example three types of Forex trading strategies as they apply to timeframes from long-term to split-second, and then look at a specific example for an intraday Forex strategy as implemented in EasyLanguage code. A short film clip will also help illustrate the concept of how interest rates drive long term Forex trading.
9:00pm – Open Discussion / Question & Answer Period
Ample time will be made available for group discussion of current issues with TradeStation or other platforms, and for new users to draw on the group’s extensive collective experience with how to solve practical problems.

Recap:

At this meeting, participants had numerous non-Forex trading questions and there was a lively discussion about these issues so the topic was set aside for a future meeting.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Davis Libary, Montgomery County, Maryland.

Agenda:

Understanding Intrabar Order Generation

Presenter: Bob G.

The ability to design strategies in TradeStation EasyLanguage which enter before a bar is completed is one of TradeStation’s most frequently misunderstood features. Special considerations must be taken to ensure that strategies intended to trade intrabar work correctly, and this session will provide a practical overview of how to use intrabar orders in a way that works.

Follow-up re: Forex on TradeStation and other new features

Presenter: Bruce D.

In the previous session we provided a broad overview of TradeStation’s new features for Forex. In this much shorter follow-up session we’ll tackle some of the questions raised last time and provide explanations of some frequently misunderstood issues.

Open Discussion / Question & Answer Period

Ample time will be made available for group discussion of current issues with TradeStation or other platforms, and for new users to draw on the group’s extensive collective experience with how to solve practical problems.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Davis Libary, Montgomery County, Maryland.

Agenda:

Getting the most from TradeStation’s new Forex trading features

Presenter: Bruce DeVault

Bruce will provide a quick recap of the new features in TS 8.3 as they pertain specifically to Forex trading and automation, and then give some practical tips on how to make the most of the new features you may not have used yet in an actual Forex strategy running on TradeStation.

Optimizing Tick-Precise Trading Systems on NeoTicker

Presenter: Bruce DeVault

We’ll walk through a quick example of how to build a tick-precise indicator calculation on the NeoTicker platform and some of the differences between tick-precise calculations and indicators that do not need tick precision, then demonstrate an optimization of a tick-precise trading system using NeoTicker’s Grid Optimizer, an advanced optimization program supporting distributed optimization across multiple computers. Emphasis will be on what works and what doesn’t, and an example optimization will be shown for a real tick-precise trading system.

Open Discussion / Question & Answer Period

Ample time will be made available for group discussion of current issues with TradeStation or other platforms, and for new users to draw on the group’s extensive collective experience with how to solve practical problems.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Bethesda Libary, Montgomery County, Maryland.

Agenda:

7:00pm – 7:15pm Introductions and Opening
The group will give brief introductions of the organizers for any new attendees. Time will be
made available for dealing with membership dues and any other minor administration items,
but not to exceed 15 minutes in total.

7:15pm – 8:00pm Presentation: Blocks – the new stock charting platform from Worden
Presenters: Vas M. and Steve J.
Steve and Vas will provide an overview for WTSUG members of Blocks, the new charting
and back-testing platform from Worden Brothers, the makers of Telechart. They will start
with an overview of Blocks and its advantages over its predecessor, Telechart. They will then
cover the main features of Blocks, including its advanced near-real time charting ability,
visual sorting, integrated trading, and scanning as well as portfolio level back-testing (which
now includes fundamentals). They will also cover how Blocks can be extended by creating
user defined blocks as well as VB.Net code.

8:00pm – 8:15pm Break

8:15pm – 9:00pm Presentation: Blocks, continued
Presenters: Vas M. and Steve J.

9:00pm – Open Discussion / Q & A
Additional time will be made available for any questions for the presenters that couldn’t be
accommodated during the presentation’s time slot, as well as for traders to bring up any other
items of interest or questions they may have for other traders.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at the Rockville Library, Montgomery County, Maryland.

Agenda:

Trade Chart Patterns Like The Pros
Presenter: Suri Duddella

Longtime WTSUG member Suri Duddella will be presenting on his favorite chart patterns from his new book ‘Trade Chart Patterns Like The Pros’, including:

1. Introduction to the Book and its Overview
2. Suri’s Pattern Trading Methodology, Market Instruments and Suri’s Research
3. Overview of Key Entry and Exit Techniques
4. Suri’ Top 10 favorite chart patterns with detailed examples of How to trade them — Specific Entry/Exits/Targets/Stops
5. Announcement of the release of Suri’s RangeBars for Tradestation

Copies of his book will be available for sale at the meeting, as well as via his website www.surinotes.com.

Background information about Suri Duddella from his website www.surinotes.com follows:

Suri Duddella is a successful, private trader for the past 12 years using his proprietary mathematical models and analysis. Prior to joining the financial markets, Suri was an engineering consultant for Fortune 100 companies.

Suri Duddella was a founder of a financial research and analysis company from 1998 to 2005 specializing in financial modeling, research/analysis, and technology architecture for financial institutions, investment research and investment media companies. Suri’s research company was ranked “Best of the Web” by Forbes magazine from 2000 to 2003, and featured in Barron’s as an “Excellent Technical Analysis site” in 2002.

Suri Duddella’s research has been reviewed and featured in Forbes, Barron’s, ActiveTrader, Stocks and Commodities, and Washington Business Journal magazines and newspapers. Suri has also appeared on various television and radio shows. In addition, he presented his research at various investment conferences in the United States. Suri has published market analysis articles for Stocks and Commodities, Active Trader, Chartpoint and Traders World magazines. Suri Duddella’s trading methodology and interview was published in the book Bulls, Bears and Brains: Investing with the Best and Brightest of the Financial Internet written by Adam Leitzes and Joshua Solan.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

Cascading Time Frames Trading Strategy – One Set-Up, Multiple Trades, Multiple Profits
Guest Presenter: Jerry Furst

Multiple time frame analysis goes to the next level. This workshop will show you a strategy on how to participate in multiple trades that can automatically trigger price “cascades” across multiple time frames. Jerry will show you how to scan, set-up your triggers, determine your profit targets, stop losses, and manage your trades once triggered. This strategy will also help you with the difficult psychology of fear and greed by having clearly defined targets that must be adhered to. An example will be shown where price cascades across the 30-minute, four-hour, and daily charts leading to multiple profits.

Background information about Jerry Furst from his website:

“As Founder and President of Investors Education Network (IEN), Jerry Furst has been conducting and coordinating live training seminars and events for years and is now a frequent speaker at Traders Expos, FXstreet.com Webinars, and an author in well known trading publications and web sites. Jerry is a former Sr. Analyst/ Programmer with IBM and has been a paid consultant and trainer to Fortune 500 companies.

Jerry has been trading his own account since 1987 and primarily trades and invests with Forex currencies, stocks, and equity options for his own accounts. He has found that running a networking group for traders is extremely rewarding as he continues to learn from the experts in the industry and the traders in his group.

Mr. Furst is also a mentor and trading coach to select clients. Jerry can be reached at JerryB1st (at) ienweb (dot) com or visit http://www.investors-education-network.com/.”

In addition, WTSUG member Suri Duddella will be on-hand after the presentation to say a few quick words about the availability of his new book Trade Chart Patterns Like The Pros (http://www.surinotes.com/) and will have a few copies on hand for sale. Also, be sure to check out Suri’s article in the June 2007 issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine (a short preview is available at http://www.traders.com/Documentation/FEEDbk_docs/Archive/062007/Abstracts_new/Duddella/duddella.html). Suri will be back at the July 18 meeting to present to the group in more detail.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

7:00pm – 7:15pm Introductions and Opening
The group will give brief introductions of the organizers for any new attendees. Time will be made available for dealing with membership dues and any other minor administration items, but not to exceed 15 minutes in total.

7:15pm – 8:00pm Presentation: Options Trading w/ Rhythm of the Markets
Guest Presenter: Ed Moore
Ed Moore will present on OEX options trading during expiration week, based on his approach as detailed at his website, www.rhythmofthemarkets.com. More information about Ed and his approach are available at his website and at his blogs http://optionmagic.blogspot.com/ and http://tradingmentor.blogspot.com/. Ed has also given special permission for WTSUG members to access the members’ only area of his website using username and password “midas” and “touch” to help get a feel for his approach before his presentation.

8:00pm – 8:15pm Break

8:15pm – 9:00pm Presentation: Options Trading w/ Rhythm of the Markets, continued
Guest Presenter: Ed Moore
9:00pm – Open Discussion / Q & A
Additional time will be made available for any questions for the presenters that couldn’t be accommodated during the presentation’s time slot, as well as for traders to bring up any other items of interest or questions they may have for other traders.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

Part 1: NeoTicker for TradeStation Users
Bruce DeVault
Bruce will present on NeoTicker features of specific interest for TradeStation users including the usage of alternative bar types, sub-minute timestamps, tick replay, mixing bar types on a single chart, mixing strategies, indicators and studies in a single program, and portfolio trading capabilities. This session will be geared to users familiar with TradeStation who want to see how some of these types of features work on an alternative platform, and will be a quick overview & demonstration of features of interest, not a detailed analysis of the platform.

Part 2: Preparing EasyLanguage for Optimization
Bruce DeVault
Bruce will present an abbreviated version of a talk given last summer to genetic algorithm enthusiasts regarding basic steps to take to prepare your EasyLanguage strategy for optimization. Example EL code will be modified live in preparation for a basic optimization run and various simple approaches will be discussed which help make strategies friendly to optimization, as well as to help reduce the likelihood of over-fitting in the design process. This session will be geared to users starting out with optimization on the TradeStation platform.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

NOTE: These presentations were originally scheduled for February 14 but were postponed as the library was closed due to weather.

Two presentations are scheduled:

(1) New TradeStation Features in 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 and 9.0 – Presenter: Bob Gantt

(2) Auto Strategy Position Management using NinjaTrader – Presenter: Mark Whiting