Building Winning Trading Systems with TradeStation®, + Website, 2nd Edition

Foreword

It absolutely astounds me that someone who has become so important to me—both personally and professionally—was unknown to me just three years ago. I met George Pruitt in 2009, and even then, our first encounter was not in person, but electronic, through an exchange of emails—an omen of things to come. Ever since 2007, I have found the markets all-consuming, and trading, my greatest passion. I spent my first two years as a trader studying just two instruments and trading them solely on a discretionary, shorter-term, day-trading basis. Eventually I was able to break into the small percentage of profitable traders.

In 2009, I became fascinated with systems development, longer time frames, and the ability simultaneously to trade baskets of markets empirically. I was eager to assemble a circle of the most experienced advisors I could find to guide me in developing a systematic approach to the market. The only things I knew about George Pruitt at the time I reached out to him were that he was highly respected in the world of futures trading and that he was the editor of the renowned Futures Truth magazine. To me this meant that he had gained the trust of the overall trading community and was intimately acquainted with practically every kind of system, method, and program that traders were constantly coming up with in the race to find a winning combination. As it happened, the reality of his skill surpassed anything my initial instincts told me.

I still haven't met John Hill ...