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.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

Jack R will give a 30 min presentation on taxes relative to trading.

Ron B. will give a 30 min presentation on his primary trading setups with active audience participation sought.

Bob G. will give a 30 min. Easy Language presentation on using Global Variables to send strategy inputs to indicators.

For the remainder of the session, Suzanne H. will demonstrate how to use two common price patterns, one indicator, and seasonal tendencies to develop three diverse strategies with minimal optimization.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, June 28, 2006 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

Mathemagician will lead-off the evening with an update of his excellent presentation at TradeStationWorld in Las Vegas last September. The presentation begins with a general introduction of constant-account-equity position sizing and a survey of public-domain position sizing methods (e.g. constant contract, constant risk, constant volatility). Next will be a discussion of variable-account-size methods (i.e. compounding, a.k.a. money management) with a survey of public-domain methods (e.g. Fixed Fractional, Fixed Ratio, Optimal F). Throughout the presentation, the emphasis will be on application of the concepts using Tradestation and sample EasyLanguage code will be provided wherever possible.

Goose will follow with a 45-60 minute segment on “Easy Language Challenges”. Plans are to address about 10 EL problems and show how to program the results, live, on the screen with the participation of the audience.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, May 24, 2004 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

Jerry Simmons of the Advanced Trading Workshop (ATW) will be presenting at our May meeting to be held Wednesday, May 24, 2006 from 7-10pm at our usual location at the Potomac Public Library. Jerry will be giving his presentation online from his home office via hotcomm (a first for our group!) while Mark W. will be facilitating the session on our end using the new wireless internet connectivity now available at the library. Jerry’s indicators and systems have all been developed using Tradestation, but keep in mind his approaches can be replicated to other trading platforms.
Additional information about Jerry, the Advanced Trading Workshop, and co-trading mentor Andy Carlsen is available below as well as at:

http://www.ajctrading.highpowersites.com/page/page/2523258.htm.

In advance of the meeting, you may be interested in viewing his daily hotcomm market prep report for the ER2 or viewing a short video that demonstrates the creation of very effective support and resistance levels that can be found at:

http://www.ajctrading.highpowersites.com/page/page/2924673.htm

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

Suri Duddella will be coordinating and conducting the meeting. The presentation consists of 50+ slides, 20+ video clips of Tools/Setups, Trading Environment etc.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

Kevin F. will be coordinating the meeting. Our speakers are:

Kevin F. – Keyboard shortcuts and order entry keystroke macros

Jack R. – TTM Indicators

Suzanne H. – Website Overview & How a Market Wizard Writes a Trading Plan.

We will also continue our discussion on the focus and leadership of the group in 2006, and setting the agenda for future meetings.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

Video and discussion of Van Tharp’s money management, demonstration of Reversal Magic indicators, and finalization of leadership changes and meeting agendas for 2006.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

Our speaker will be Michael Parsons of Reversal Magic (http://www.reversalmagic.com/). Michael has a suite of indicators to forecast reversal points in price and time (his website states that his indicators are independent of Gann or Fibonacci), so this might be an opportunity to expand upon your knowledge of OB/OS reversal indicators. We will also be discussing the focus and leadership of the group in 2006.

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

Angus Jackson (http://www.angusjackson.com/).

The WTSUG meeting on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 was held from 7:00pm to 10:00pm at Potomac Libary of Montgomery County, 10101 Glenolden Drive, Potomac, MD 20854.

Agenda:

The major portion of the meeting will be led by a panel of WTSUG TradeStation World 2005 attendees who will discuss what they learned at the conference. They will also take questions from the audience.

Recap:

A big thanks to the TSW Conference panel members — Bob, Frank, Randy, Kevin, Suri, Steve, and Mark — for sharing their impressions of the recent TSW conference. The discussion was not only informative and lively, but the panel members also detailed new enhancements in TS 8.1 — SP 1 and TS 9.0.