Microsoft Excel for Stock and Option Traders: Build Your Own Analytical Tools for Higher Returns (paperback) - Softcover

Augen, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013340904X ISBN 13: 9780133409048

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2011

Synopsis

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

About this title

From the Back Cover:

“Augen authors another winner. A skilled analyst and trader himself, Augen offers individuals a cutting-edge approach to analysis, utilizing simple software, which allows traders to better steer their own financial destiny. In this new book, he outlines his personal investing techniques, unlike any other technical approach I’ve ever seen. This unique book is a must-read for self-directed traders seeking to create their own tools to gain an edge in the computer-driven markets of today.”

--Kira McCaffrey Brecht, Managing Editor, SFO Magazine

 

“Jeff Augen continues his streak of great books that can help traders improve returns with a book about programming option trades that doesn’t require a quant degree to be put into action. He has done what I thought was impossible: He has written a programming guide for option traders that is interesting and actionable. This is the most interesting, understandable, and actionable guide to using Excel to trade options that I have read.”

--Mark Sebastian, COO and Director of Education, Option Pit

 

"Jeff's insights into modern-day options have provided me with several real-world trading breakthroughs. I increasingly lean on Jeff for clarity in today's hard-charging, volatile markets--I'd get my hands on everything he puts out!"

--Preston James, Founder, Traders Edge Network, LLC

 

Trade More Profitably by Exploiting Excel’s Powerful New Statistical and Data Mining Tools!

 

There’s only one way to gain a consistent edge in today’s high-speed markets: adopt the same advanced data mining and analysis techniques the institutions use. Fortunately, with Microsoft Excel and a modern PC, you can do just that. In this book, Jeff Augen covers a variety of approaches for systematically improving your trades by exploiting Excel’s most powerful new features.

 

Augen demystifies key analytical concepts and teaches all the Excel skills you’ll need. Using realistic examples, he explains everything from simple conditionals and expressions to sophisticated VBA macro programming.

 

You’ll learn to create new indicators and alerts that identify high-profit opportunities...perform statistical analyses to back-test strategies more accurately...validate, invalidate, or tune combinations of indicators across any time frame...quickly visualize enormous datasets, so hidden trends jump out at you.

 

Own Excel? Use a trading platform? You already have the tools to gain a powerful trading advantage. Get this book--and put those tools to work.

• Use Excel 2007/2010 to systematically improve the way you analyze trades
  Translate complex trading hypotheses into simple, testable Excel models
• Uncover market distortions in time to profit from them
  Profit from inefficiencies that disappear in hours, minutes, or even seconds
• Identify new correlations the market hasn’t noticed
  Perform “experiments” of virtually unlimited size, number, or complexity

About the Author:

Jeff Augen, currently a private investor and writer, has spent more than a decade building a unique intellectual property portfolio of databases, algorithms, and associated software for technical analysis of derivatives prices. His work, which includes more than a million lines of computer code, is particularly focused on the identification of subtle anomalies and price distortions.

 

Augen has a 25-year history in information technology. As cofounding executive of IBM’s Life Sciences Computing business, he defined a growth strategy that resulted in $1.2 billion of new revenue and managed a large portfolio of venture capital investments. From 2002 to 2005, Augen was President and CEO of TurboWorx Inc., a technical computing software company founded by the chairman of the Department of Computer Science at Yale University. His books include Trading Realities, Day Trading Options, Trading Options at Expiration, The Option Trader’s Workbook, and The Volatility Edge in Options Trading. He currently teaches option trading classes at the New York Institute of Finance and writes a weekly column for Stocks, Futures and Options magazine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 013340904X
• ISBN 13: 9780133409048
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208