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October 24, 2016

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WE NEED YOUR VOTEVote
VOTING BEGINS FOR THE 2017
READERS' CHOICE AWARDS
 
The polls are now open for the Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES (TASC) magazine's Readers' Choice Awards for 2017.  The TASC readers are very conscious of the award winners.  If you vote for NeuroShell Trader, it helps us attract new users so we can continue to fund development of the NeuroShell Trader software and technical support. 

How to Vote
Click on the VOTE NOW! button in the picture above or  click here to go to the Traders.com website.

1. On the page that is displayed, enter your subscriber ID from your magazine address label (look at their example to see which numbers on the label are the subscriber ID). 

After you are logged in, look for the Artificial Intelligence Software (Expert, Neural) category on page 3. Be sure to mark your ballot for NeuroShell Trader Professional (Ward Systems Group Inc.) as number 1.   

If you have also used GeneHunter, please vote for this software as number 2 in the same category.
 
2. Do the same for the Standalone Analytical Software, $1000 and more category. Look for NeuroShell Trader Professional on page 2.
 
3.  In the Software Plug-Ins section on page 3, vote for MESA for NeuroShell Trader (MESA Software).
 
Note that if you switch pages, sometimes your votes are lost so be sure that all of your votes are marked before you cast your final ballot.

We're all busy so we ask that you vote now so you won't forget later.  Voting closes December 31, 2016.
 
The winners will be announced in the 2017 Bonus issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES Bonus issue.

The staff at Ward Systems Group thanks you for your vote!

CUSTOMIZE YOUR MACD TRADING STRATEGYMACD
In the article titled "The Finer Points, Critical MACD Levels" that appears in the October 2016 issue of TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF Stocks & Commodities magazine, author Kevin Luo describes how sometimes the traditional settings for the MACD indicator miss the mark in generating profitable trading signals depending on how much the market is trending.

This version of the MACD indicator calculates the difference between the 12 and 26 period exponential moving averages of the close.

In his article, Luo ran optimization tests on portfolios of up to 500 stocks.  He found the MACD settings that were successful on the majority of the stocks in the portfolios.  He also suggested the use of filters to remove losing trades.  One filter only bought when MACD was in the range 0 to -1.5.  However, this filter sometimes removed profitable trades as well as the losers.

An Alternative Approach
NeuroShell Trader Can Customize the Settings for Each Stock
Rather than using the same MACD settings for all stocks in the portfolio, you can create a multi-page NeuroShell Trader chart that finds custom MACD parameters.  Simply
choose full optimization or parameter search when setting up the Trading Strategy.   

The custom MACD parameters outperformed both the trading strategy with the traditional MACD settings and buy and hold.

If you prefer to have the same MACD parameters for the entire portfolio, open the Advanced tab in the Trading Strategy wizard and check the box to optimize the parameter settings across all chart pages.

You can download a copy of the example chart from the Examples section of www.ward.net

SAVE 20% - TRADER POWER USER or CHAOSHUNTERSale
Change is in the air.  To keep your trading models up to date, we offering two of our best selling products at a discount.    

Choose either ChaosHunter
If you don't know which trading rules to rely on, ChaosHunter can create those rules and all you have to do is select a potential list of time series data and the operations that may be used to produce the rules. ChaosHunter builds a readable formula that generates buy/sell signals.  ChaosHunter formulas may be included in NeuroShell Trader systems as easily as inserting an indicator in a chart.

ChaosHunter can also create formulas for scientific or business problems.

or NeuroShell Trader Power User
Enhance your trading systems with Power User features such as:
 
Mixing indicators, trading rules and predictions based on multiple time frames in the same chart
Define  how many shares/contracts/units to buy with each trade
Let the optimizer choose optimal position sizing parameters and/or method
Scale in and out of trades with more than one entry or exit
Test multiple trading strategies on multiple instruments in batch mode
Walkforward optimizations that simulate repeated testing on out-of-sample data.

The sale includes an initial purchase of either the Trader Power User or the DayTrader Power User as well as upgrades from existing versions.   The same is true for ChaosHunter and upgrades.

 Click here  to shop the sale
LIMITED TIME OFFER

All sale prices are calculated on the list price of the software.  (Sale prices do not apply. ) Discounts may not be combined with any other discount.   
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FREE VOLATILITY INDICATOR Volatility
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Volatility is the dispersion of returns for a given security or market index. It is quantified by short-term traders as the average difference between a stocks daily high and daily low, divided by the stock price (in the example below we used the close). 

Download this chart from www.ward.net so you can add the volatility indicator to your Trader library.

You can download a copy of the chart that includes the Volatility indicator from the Examples section of www.ward.net.  Once you have loaded the chart in NeuroShell Trader, the Volatility indicator will be saved in the custom indicator category for use in other charts.

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