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

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 was scheduled from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854. This meeting was canceled due to weather.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, January 11, 2007 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

* Future topic priorities – Group Discussion
* Add’l test results re: bar close extremes – Presenter: Steve Johns
* New TradeStation capabilities in 8.2 (upcoming 8.3 and 9.0 features next month) – Presenter: Bruce DeVault
* Tax prep software for active traders – Presenter: Jack Robson

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

Ron B. to follow up on presentation from July.

Steve J. on system back-testing results.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

Bruce D. on genetic optimization and genetic programming

Mark W. on using Dakota for adaptive swarm optimization

Bob G. on trading from the TradeStation Matrix

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

Kevin F. on best hardware configurations for running TradeStation

Suri D. on using Renko and range bars to trade, chart simulation and replay, securing EL code

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

A very special treat – Via the internet John Clayburg will present his latest research on trading the Forex markets. Dr. Clayburg is a well known author and presenter at numerous trading conferences.

Bob G. will teach an EasyLanguage lesson on improving strategy/indicator optimizations and real-time performance.

For our August meeting, the lesson will focus on how to convert Functions into In-Line code and thereby reduce calculation time and improve CPU runtime utilization by up to 80%.

The starting point for the discussion will be the MACD Strategy and Indicator “built” in the July meeting. We will review the July versions (Functions) of the Strategy and Indicator in a side-by-side chart with the In-Line Strategy and Indicator and discuss each of the changes.

Most consider the conversion of Functions to In-Line code the single most important method to improve Backtesting and Realtime performance of TradeStation.

An ELD with both versions of the code will be provided so that you can study the techniques and incorporate them into your coding.