4/13/2011

Microsoft Excel for Stock and Option Traders: Build Your Own Analytical Tools for Higher Returns - Free DownLoad

Book Description
Trade More Profitably by Exploiting Excel's Powerful New 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, you can do it with Microsoft Excel, a powerful PC, and this book.

Step by step, world-class trader Jeff 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…visualize data to reveal insights others can't see!

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

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: FT Press (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0137131828
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137131822
  • File Size: 2.8 MiB
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Software Build Systems: Principles and Experience - Free DownLoad

Book Description
"This book represents a thorough and extensive treatment of the software build process including the choices, benefits, and challenges of a well designed build process. I recommend it not only to all software build engineers but to all software developers since a well designed build process is key to an effective software development process."
—Kevin Bodie, Director Software Development, Pitney Bowes Inc.

"An excellent and detailed explanation of build systems, an important but often overlooked part of software development projects. The discussion of productivity as related to build systems is, alone, well worth the time spent reading this book."
—John M. Pantone, Objectech Corporation, VP, IT Educator and Course Developer

"Peter Smith provides an interesting and accessible look into the world of software build systems, distilling years of experience and covering virtually every type of tool in the build engineer's toolbox. Well organized, well written, and very thorough; I would recommend this book to anyone with a build system under their responsibility."
—Jeff Overbey, Project Co-Lead, Photran

"Software Build Systems teaches how to think about building software. It surveys the tools and techniques for building software products and the ways things go wrong. This book will appeal to those new to build systems as well as experienced build system engineers."
—Monte Davidoff, Software Development Consultant, Alluvial Software, Inc.

Inadequate build systems can dramatically impact developer productivity. Bad dependencies, false compile errors, failed software images, slow compilation, and time-wasting manual processes are just some of the byproducts of a subpar build system. In Software Build Systems, software productivity expert Peter Smith shows you how to implement build systems that overcome all these problems, so you can deliver reliable software more rapidly, at lower cost.

Smith explains the core principles underlying highly efficient build systems, surveying both system features and usage scenarios. Next, he encapsulates years of experience in creating and maintaining diverse build systems–helping you make well-informed choices about tools and practices, and avoid common traps and pitfalls. Throughout, he shares a wide range of practical examples and lessons from multiple environments, including Java, C++, C, and C#. Coverage includes

  • Mastering build system concepts, including source trees, build tools, and compilation tools
  • Comparing five leading build tools: GNU Make, Ant, SCons, CMake, and the Eclipse IDE's integrated build features
  • Ensuring accurate dependency checking and efficient incremental compilation
  • Using metadata to assist debugging, profiling, and source code documentation
  • Packaging software for installation on your target machine
  • Best practices for managing complex version-control systems, build machines, and compilation tools

If you're a developer, this book will illuminate the issues involved in building and maintaining the build system that's best for your team. If you're a manager, you'll discover how to evaluate your team's build system and improve its effectiveness. And if you're a build "guru," you'll learn how to optimize the performance and scalability of your build system, no matter how demanding your requirements are.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 624 pages
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780321717283
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321717283
  • File Size: 6.3 MiB
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Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours, 5th Edition - Free DownLoad

Book Description
Includes C++ compiler and IDE for Windows, Mac & Linux

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you can learn the basics of programming with C++–one of the most popular and powerful programming languages ever created.

Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, this fast and friendly tutorial teaches you everything you need to know, from installing and using a compiler, to debugging the programs you've created, to what's coming in C++0x, the next version of C++.

Each lesson builds on what you've already learned, giving you a solid understanding of the basics of C++ programming concepts and techniques.

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common C++ programming tasks
Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test yourself to make sure you're ready to go on
Starter Kit software provides everything you need to create and compile C++ programs on any platform–Windows, Mac or Linux

Learn how to…

  • Install and use a C++ compiler for Windows, Mac OS X or Linux
  • Build object-oriented programs in C++
  • Master core C++ concepts such as functions, classes, arrays, and pointers
  • Add rich functionality with linked lists and templates
  • Debug your programs for flawless code
  • Learn exception and error-handling techniques
  • Discover what's new in C++0x, the next version of C++

Book Details

  • Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Sams; 5th Edition (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0672333317
  • ISBN-13: 978-0672333316
  • File Size: 2.1 MiB
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