The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 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 – 8:15pm Introduction to System Trading
Video Presentation by Ron Roth
We’ve received special permission to re-air a recorded video presentation by Ron Roth of RBC Capital Markets called A Primer in Auto Strategy Trading – a presentation originally given December 10, 2007 to the New York chapter of the Market Technicians Association. We’ll use this as guidance for topics to discuss within the group after the break.

8:15pm – 8:30pm Break

8:30pm – Group Follow-up / Discussion
After the video presentation, we’ll have a group discussion on approaches to systematic trading, and about the material in the presentation video. Feel free to bring your system trading questions and issues! The video will raise lots of possible points for discussion, but bring your own if there are things you would like the group to discuss!

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Davis 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 KwikPop Approach to Trading
Remote Presenter: Wayne Harrison
The original developer of the KwikPop set of discretionary trading indicators (www.kwikpop.com), will give a talk with a few quick demonstrations regarding how he trades and how he uses his proprietary indicator set to synthesize different types of information about market conditions. Wayne moderates live trading rooms and conducts regular training sessions, and has been trading and helping members of the public to benefit from his approaches for many years. The KwikPop indicators are available for TradeStation, eSignal, NinjaTrader, Sierra Charts and Infinity Charts, and a free trial is available.

8:00pm – 8:15pm Break

8:15pm – 9:00pm Group Follow-up / Discussion
We’ll go over the results from the membership survey at the last meeting regarding possible topics, and discuss some possible topics for the coming few meetings.
Also, we’ll set aside time to discuss how group members are doing with their own trading and how the group can best help with this, either through group discussions and interaction in future meetings or in putting together future presentations.

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.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Davis 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 Common Psychological Challenges for Traders
Remote Presenter: Dr. Brett Steenbarger
Dr. Steenbarger will be discussing the most common psychological challenges traders face and how to use research-tested methods from psychology to deal with these challenges and improve trading performance. The emphasis will be on practical techniques and methods that participants can take away and use, so that they can be their own trading coaches. Interested participants can check out Dr. Steenbarger’s blog at www.traderfeed.blogspot.com.

8:00pm – 8:15pm Break

8:15pm – 9:00pm Update on TradeStation 8.3 and 8.4
Presenter: Bob G.
Bob G. will share with the group what he’s found out from his recent visit to TradeStation headquarters regarding issues with the current builds and what we can expect in the coming releases. Bob’s presentations are always very well received, and he’s a real fountain of knowledge about all things TradeStation, so bring questions!

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.

The WTSUG meeting on Thursday, January 10, 2008 was a combined meeting with Society of Market Technicians (SMT) held at Ring House, 1801 E. Jefferson St., Rockville, MD 20852.

Agenda:

John Joseph (http://www.nextdsystems.com) will present to a combined meeting of Society of Market Technicians, WTSUG and Investment SIG – Capitol Users Group at Ring House (1801 E. Jefferson St., Rockville, MD 20852) at 7:30pm. Better known as Mathemagician, John’s expertise in position sizing and system testing is legendary, so be sure not to miss it!

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.