Quantitative Trading Systems — Resources
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Programs
The AmiBroker program is published by AmiBroker
The Dakota program is published by BioComp Systems
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Data Providers
Quotes Plus — End of Day and Real-Time data for stocks, funds, commodities
Interactive Brokers — Real Time data for stocks, futures, forex
Historical Data, some with daily updates
MSN Money – Historical End of Day Stock data — Integrated with AmiQuote
Yahoo Finance – Historical End of Day Stock data — Integrated with AmiQuote
AN Futures – Historical 1 minute data for ES, NQ, ER, ME, EC, JY
CSI Data – End of Day US, Canada, London Stock and Futures data in CSI format
Download Quotes.com – End of Day World data
EOD Data – End of Day World data
Futures Guide – Historical Futures Data
Historical Option Data – Historical options data with daily updates
Investor's FastTrack – EOD US Mutual Fund and Stock (Close-only) Data, and proprietary program
Just Data – EOD World Stock and Futures, from Australia
Norgate Premium Data – EOD World Stock, Futures and Forex data, with AmiBroker data maintenance utilities
Pi Trading – Free Historical EOD Index, Forex, Commodities data
Pinnacle Data – EOD Futures, Indices, Market Breadth
Price-Data.com – End of Day and IntraDay US Stock and Futures data in ASCII files
Turtle Trader – Free Historical Futures Data
Worden TeleChart 2007 – EOD and Intraday US Stock data, and proprietary analysis program
Real Time and Delayed Market Snapshot
Bloomberg – Broad Market Information
CBOE – Market Data, including VIX and VXN
CNN Market Summary – Broad Market Information, including pre-market
CNN – commodities
Download Quotes – World Indices
DTN IQ – Real Time data for stocks, futures, options – most world markets
eSignal — Real Time data for stocks, futures, forex (Also End of Day) — MarketCenter is no longer available
Fidelity – Delayed and Real Time Quotes
Fund Estimate – intraday estimate of fund closing price
Google Finance – Broad Market Information
Integrity Data – Real time data for the Indonesian markets
Market Watch – Dow Jones – Broad Market Information
MSN Money – Broad Market Information
NASDAQ – Real Time Market Data
Quote.com – World Stocks and Futures
Reuters – Broad Market Information
Smart Money – Streaming Real Time Quotes
Tick Data – Real Time Market Data and Historical Quotes
Yahoo Finance – Broad Market Information
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Lists of tickers and index components
Index Arb – S&P 500 Components by Weight
NASDAQ – Component stocks of the NASDAQ 100 index
Price-Data.com – Ticker Lists for major indicies
Russell – Indices Fact Sheets
Standard & Poor's – S&P Index Information
Standard & Poor's – S&P 500 Components
Standard & Poor's – S&P 100 Components
XAU Gold Index – Components and quotes for the stocks in the XAU
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Exchange Traded Funds
CBOE – Options on ETFs
ETF Screen.com – Performance comparison of Exchange Traded Funds
ETF Trends – Commentary and Links
Inverse Funds – a list
iShares – Information about iShares ETFs, including components
Master Data – List of All ETFs; Intraday ETF Data
Morningstar – Exchange Traded Funds; List by trading volume; Shows holdings
Nuveen – ETF Connect
PowerShares – Information about PowerShare ETFs, including components
Price-Data.com – Lists of Exchange Traded Funds
ProShares – Information about ProShare ETFs
S&P Sectors – Information about S&P Sector ETFs, including components
Securities and Exchange Commission (US) – on ETFs
Seeking Alpha – ETC and CEF Commentary and Links
Smart Money – ETF Tracker
XTF – Informative ETF site
Yahoo – Exchange Traded Funds Center
Mutual Funds
Links to fund companies that offer funds that are in one of these categories:
- Available for short term trading
- Sector funds – even if not tradable short-term, they may be useful for modeling
- Both positive and negative beta
- Leveraged
Fund Companies
- Direxion – Tradable short term – Leveraged positive and negative
- Fidelity Select – Not Tradable short term – Sector Funds – Useful for modeling
- ProFunds – Tradable short term – Sector Funds – Leveraged positive and negative
- Rydex Funds – Tradable short term – Sector Funds – Leveraged positive and negative – Some have multiple daily price points
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The Major Exchanges
American Stock Exchange
NASDAQ site
New York Stock Exchange
Australian Securities Exchange
Bombay Stock Exchange
Euronext – FTSE, CAC
Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Hong Kong Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange
Mexican Bolsa
Madrid Bolsa
New Zealand Stock Exchange
Swiss Exchange
Tokyo Stock Exchange
Toronto Stock Exchange
Chicago Board Options Exchange – CBOE
Chicago Board of Trade – CBOT/CME
Chicago Mercantile Exchange – CBOT/CME
Intercontinental Exchange
Kansas City Board of Trade
New York Board of Trade
New York Mercantile Exchange
One Chicago
List of Stock Exchanges
All World Exchanges
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US Regulatory Agencies
CFTC - Commodity Futures Trading Commission – US Regulator
FINRA - Financial Industry Regulatory Authority – Formerly NASD - National Association of Securities Dealers
NFA - National Futures Association – US Regulator
SEC - Securities and Exchange Commission – US Regulator
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Forums and Discussion Groups
AmiBroker Yahoo Group – The main Yahoo group
AmiBroker-AFL Yahoo Group – Sharing AFL programming ideas
AmiBroker-AT Yahoo Group – Automated Trading
AmiBroker-Beta Yahoo Group – Discussing Beta releases
AmiBroker-DLL Yahoo Group – Developers of Plug-ins
AmiBroker-News Yahoo Group – Notices of new versions of AmiBroker
AmiBroker-TS Yahoo Group – Discussing Trading Systems
AmiBroker Fan – Good Forum discussions
Aussie Stock Forums – Excellent Forum Discussions – Not just for Aussies
Elite Trader – Active Discussions
Market Thoughts – Active discussions
PureBytes – AmiBroker forum archives
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Educational and Miscellaneous
AmiBroker – User's Knowledge Base
Autumn Gold – CTA Performance
BabyPips – Forex Education
Business Week – Company information, mostly fundamental
Calyon Financial Barclay Index – CTA Performance
Capital Management Partners – CTA Performance
Capital Management Partners – Relationship between Commodities and Stocks
Chart School – John Murphy's site
Daily Reckoning – Newsletter and Forums
eSignal Learning – a digest of one-pagers on technical indicators
Forex Realm – Technical Indicators
HedgeStreet – Online Commodity Futures Trading – including Binary Options
Internet Public Library – Investments
NO DooDahs – Bill Rempel — Educational and Entertaining
Investopedia – Stock information, including splits
PIMCO – Bill Gross
Quatloos – Frauds of All Kinds
Seasonal Charts – Annual seasonality
TheStreet.com – Jim Cramer
Trending123 – Technical analysis on stocks, indices, and currencies
Wikipedia – General information
Wilmott – Quantitative Finance
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Books, journals, and magazines worth reading
Active Trader Magazine, (800) 341-9384, www.activetradermag.com
Aronson, David, Evidence-Based Technical Analysis, Wiley, 2007
Bernstein, Peter, Against the Gods, Wiley, 1996
Drobny, Steven, Inside the House of Money, Wiley, 2006
Ehlers, John, Rocket Science for Traders, Wiley, 2001
Ehlers, John, Cybernetic Analysis of Stocks and Futures, Wiley, 2004
Fontanills, George, Getting Started in Commodities, Wiley, 2007
Formula Research, Nelson Freeburg, (800) 720-1080, www.formularesearch.com
Futures Magazine, (800) 458-1734, www.futuresmag.com
Hulbert Financial Digest, (866) 428-6568, www.marketwatch.com
Jones, Ryan, The Trading Game, Wiley, 1999
Leach, Patrick, Why Can't You Just Give Me the Number?, Probabilistic Publishing, 2006
Lowenstein, Roger, When Genius Failed, Random House, 2000
Poundstone, William, Fortune's Formula, Hill and Wang, 2005
Taleb, Nassim, Fooled by Randomness, Norton, 2001
Taleb, Nassim, The Black Swan, Random House, 2007
Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, (800) 832-4642, www.traders.com
Tharp, Van, Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom, 2nd Ed, McGraw-Hill, 2007
Vince, Ralph, Portfolio Management Formulas, Wiley, 1990
Vince, Ralph, The Mathematics of Money Management, Wiley, 1992
Vince, Ralph, The New Money Management, Wiley, 1995
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