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# Algorithmic Trading: Winning Strategies and Their Rationale (Wiley Trading)

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Review: Bridging Market Dynamics and Mean Reversion Tools - This is certainly a worthwhile book. Importantly, it is rare in its integration of insights into market dynamics with a discussion of their most appropriate accompanying statistical tools. As the first reviewer accurately described, "in effect it is an ideal primer for the quant newbie". To that end, it is important to zero in on "primer" and "newbie". Many experienced investors and traders understand the pitfalls and benefits of algorithmic trading. Unfortunately, many newbie quants seem to have little idea of the biases and unrealistic results in their approaches. This makes it difficult for experienced portfolio managers to communicate their insights about markets and securities and relate it to the mathematical and statistical framework of their quant teams. To that end, I'd expand the first reviewer's definition and say that this is a very valuable primer for highly experienced market professionals who are looking to expand their quantitative framework. Algorithmic Trading: Winning Strategies and Their Rationale makes this process easier through its unique combination of broad generalizations and specific examples. As such, it can be a point of discussion and specific statistical work on algorithmic strategies. Chen has done a great job of building a bridge for communication, testing, and discussion of trading strategies. This book provides the foundation blocks for approaching and understanding mean reversion strategies in a quantitative framework.
Review: A good primer for the quant newbie - So nearly four and half years after writing the first review of Dr Chan's first book I am back again writing the first review for his second. Things to note: 1. All the examples in the book are again in MATLAB, so if you don't have MATLAB you will be at a disadvantage. 2. Whilst the title of the book includes the phrase Algorithmic Trading. It, like the first book, doesn't actually show you how to connect a MATLAB model or system to the market so it can run as an algorithmic trading platform. This was a criticism of the first book. However, if you Google "MATLAB as an Automated Execution System" you'll find a paper that Dr Chan wrote that shows you how to connect MATLAB to Interactive Brokers via a third party MATLAB interface. 3. Whilst the title doesn't use the word quant, be assured the models are again from the quant school. Readers from the TA school of school of oscillators, Gann, MACD etc are not catered for. Now the book itself: In the introduction Dr Chan makes it clear the book contains prototype strategies. The book isn't a collection of "strategy recipes" (his term) rather it's about why some strategies should work and how we can look to test and refine them. For each presented strategy we are given a model using MATLAB code. The code is only a snippet; you need to go to Dr Chan's website for the full code. Many of the models will need further work to accommodate the reader's circumstances, but Dr Chan is clear that he isn't presenting complete models. The book is essentially about why certain approaches to the market should work in theory given the "maths" and what we know about market operations. Many of the discussed strategies will be familiar to readers of Dr Chan's blog and his first book. The main division in the book is between mean reversion and momentum strategies, with mean reversion getting the greatest attention. Dr Chan highlights the challenges facing traders of mean reversion, particularly those focusing on pure stock pairs, his preference now is more towards ETFs. As you come to expect from Dr Chan his theories are well supported by maths and any reader will get a good primer on stationarity, cointegration, dickey fuller test and the Hurst Exponent. My Summary: I devoured the first book and spent many hours coding and testing the ideas that were presented. This time around I felt there isn't much new content for a reader or practitioner with a reasonable interest in pair trading, basket trading or a quant approach to momentum trading. If you haven't read the first book, then this is a better book. It has been updated to reflect the market conditions of the last few years, plus there are greater descriptions of the theory behind why some of these quant models work and ways in which we should look to improve them. So in effect it is an ideal primer for the quant newbie. As a standalone book and with the knowledge the ideal reader is quant focused then the book is a four. Readers who already have the first book and maintain an interest in quant will probably feel a little short changed this time around.

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| Best Sellers Rank | #61,365 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #21 in Futures Trading (Books) #113 in Stock Market Investing (Books) #219 in Finance (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 210 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bridging Market Dynamics and Mean Reversion Tools
*by R***. on June 26, 2013*

This is certainly a worthwhile book. Importantly, it is rare in its integration of insights into market dynamics with a discussion of their most appropriate accompanying statistical tools. As the first reviewer accurately described, "in effect it is an ideal primer for the quant newbie". To that end, it is important to zero in on "primer" and "newbie". Many experienced investors and traders understand the pitfalls and benefits of algorithmic trading. Unfortunately, many newbie quants seem to have little idea of the biases and unrealistic results in their approaches. This makes it difficult for experienced portfolio managers to communicate their insights about markets and securities and relate it to the mathematical and statistical framework of their quant teams. To that end, I'd expand the first reviewer's definition and say that this is a very valuable primer for highly experienced market professionals who are looking to expand their quantitative framework. Algorithmic Trading: Winning Strategies and Their Rationale makes this process easier through its unique combination of broad generalizations and specific examples. As such, it can be a point of discussion and specific statistical work on algorithmic strategies. Chen has done a great job of building a bridge for communication, testing, and discussion of trading strategies. This book provides the foundation blocks for approaching and understanding mean reversion strategies in a quantitative framework.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A good primer for the quant newbie
*by E***R on May 29, 2013*

So nearly four and half years after writing the first review of Dr Chan's first book I am back again writing the first review for his second. Things to note: 1. All the examples in the book are again in MATLAB, so if you don't have MATLAB you will be at a disadvantage. 2. Whilst the title of the book includes the phrase Algorithmic Trading. It, like the first book, doesn't actually show you how to connect a MATLAB model or system to the market so it can run as an algorithmic trading platform. This was a criticism of the first book. However, if you Google "MATLAB as an Automated Execution System" you'll find a paper that Dr Chan wrote that shows you how to connect MATLAB to Interactive Brokers via a third party MATLAB interface. 3. Whilst the title doesn't use the word quant, be assured the models are again from the quant school. Readers from the TA school of school of oscillators, Gann, MACD etc are not catered for. Now the book itself: In the introduction Dr Chan makes it clear the book contains prototype strategies. The book isn't a collection of "strategy recipes" (his term) rather it's about why some strategies should work and how we can look to test and refine them. For each presented strategy we are given a model using MATLAB code. The code is only a snippet; you need to go to Dr Chan's website for the full code. Many of the models will need further work to accommodate the reader's circumstances, but Dr Chan is clear that he isn't presenting complete models. The book is essentially about why certain approaches to the market should work in theory given the "maths" and what we know about market operations. Many of the discussed strategies will be familiar to readers of Dr Chan's blog and his first book. The main division in the book is between mean reversion and momentum strategies, with mean reversion getting the greatest attention. Dr Chan highlights the challenges facing traders of mean reversion, particularly those focusing on pure stock pairs, his preference now is more towards ETFs. As you come to expect from Dr Chan his theories are well supported by maths and any reader will get a good primer on stationarity, cointegration, dickey fuller test and the Hurst Exponent. My Summary: I devoured the first book and spent many hours coding and testing the ideas that were presented. This time around I felt there isn't much new content for a reader or practitioner with a reasonable interest in pair trading, basket trading or a quant approach to momentum trading. If you haven't read the first book, then this is a better book. It has been updated to reflect the market conditions of the last few years, plus there are greater descriptions of the theory behind why some of these quant models work and ways in which we should look to improve them. So in effect it is an ideal primer for the quant newbie. As a standalone book and with the knowledge the ideal reader is quant focused then the book is a four. Readers who already have the first book and maintain an interest in quant will probably feel a little short changed this time around.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great sequel to his original book...
*by R***Y on July 10, 2013*

As a retail participant dealing in quantitative approaches to trading and investing in futures, options and stocks, I found Dr. Chan's book very well done, pragmatic and useful. The book describes methods to locate short to long term trading strategies and to systematically make money from them over time. The author carefully describes not just the mechanics and details of several algorithmic strategies, but also their enabling market factors. Popular technical indicators are avoided in favor of a more rigorous quantitative analysis. This is not a get-rich-quick-book. Dr. Chan rightly points out that even with his strategies' trading rules, program code and backtesting discipline, trading these strategies on a daily basis is a lot tougher than people expect. Without additional homework, you could end up depleting your capital accounts. Why would he tell you all of this in view of the secrecy and mystique that quantitative traders typically exhibit? He does not describe details of extremely high frequency trading strategies or strategies with low capacity that would suffer or cease to be profitable if more capital comes into the same game. It's a great sequel to his original book, Quantitative Trading. It amplifies and expands on his earlier strategies -- and that helps you make up your own mind about their usefulness.

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