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Guarantee... If you're not satisfied with Adaptrade Builder for any reason, return it within 30 days for a full refund. See our Terms & Conditions for complete details.
Digital Download... You can download Builder right now. After you purchase Builder online, you can automatically activate it, converting it to a licensed version. Click here for additional information on ordering.
Requirements... Processor: 1.2 GHz or faster RAM: 512 MB or more Disk space: 1 GB or more Operating system: Windows XP, Vista, or Win 7 Monitor: 17inch or larger
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Build
Better Strategies Faster with Adaptrade Builder
Adaptrade Builder finds the best combination of price patterns, technical indicators, and entry and exit rules and writes the corresponding strategy code. Using Builder, you can build an unlimited number of trading strategies for almost any market and time frame, from tick bars to monthly bars, for stocks, futures, ETF's and forex. Adaptrade Builder uses an advanced genetic programming algorithm to construct an almost unlimited variety of unique trading strategies based on your specified performance criteria. There's no need to know the EasyLanguage programming language for TradeStation, no programming is required, and detailed knowledge of technical trading indicators or trading system building methods is unnecessary. You just select the price data for your target market, make a few settings to help guide the build process, and Builder does the rest.
Builder can generate strategies for stocks, futures, forex, ETFs, and other markets on time frames from tick data to monthly bars. There is no limit to the number of strategies you can build or how often you can build them. If you want to diversify by adding a new market to your trading, you can use Builder to find a strategy to trade it. Adaptrade Builder is the quick and easy way to develop high quality trading strategies for TradeStation.
Is Adaptrade Builder Right for Me? If you develop or plan to develop trading strategies (systems) for TradeStation or MultiCharts, you could benefit from Adaptrade Builder. Developing an effective trading strategy the traditional way is not easy. Whether you do your own programming or hire someone else to implement your ideas, the development process is complicated and time consuming. Assuming you have a viable idea to start with, the first step is programming it and verifying that the code does what you want it to do. You then need to test it to see if it has potential. Unfortunately, most trading ideas simply don't work, which means more programming, more testing, and so on.Many traders abandon the idea of developing their own strategy and opt to purchase one. While this can be effective, the drawbacks of this option include the fact that most trading systems are developed for a small number of markets and/or time frames (e.g., daily bars only). If you decide to trade a different market or time frame, you need to purchase another system. Also, markets can and do change over time, and even the best systems sometimes need re-optimization and/or modifications at some point in the future, which makes the initial investment in the system less cost-effective. Adaptrade Builder was designed to address these problems. Builder automates the strategy development process. It outputs clean, complete EasyLanguage code that includes rules and trading orders for entering the market, exiting at a profit, and exiting at a loss (e.g., money management stops). The strategy code is provided in open text file format for TradeStation (current versions or TS 2000i) or MultiCharts.
How Does it Work? Builder constructs trading strategies using a genetic programming algorithm to select different combinations of technical indicators, operators, and entry and exit orders. Builder includes technical indicators for trend, trend strength, oscillators, volatility, volume, time of day, day of week, and price patterns. The indicators are combined using logical and inequality operators. In addition, there are three different types of entry orders and six different types of exit orders. With all the possible combinations of rules and orders, Builder is capable of generating literally trillions of different possible trading strategies.
Builder incorporates several features that help guide the process to strategies that are likely to have good out-of-sample and real-time performance. In particular, Builder now includes automatic out-of-sample testing, so you can separate the data on which the strategies are built ("in-sample" data) from the data used for testing ("out-of-sample" data). Also, you can choose to optimize for statistical significance, maximize the number of trades, and minimize the system complexity, all of which will increase the quality of the generated strategies. Moreover, the strategy logic produced by Builder incorporates volatility-normalized parameters, which help adapt the strategies to different market conditions. The user's guide includes a section that covers factors affecting out-of-sample performance and ways to maximize the out-of-sample results.
To build a strategy, all you need to do is select a file of price data, which you can save from a TradeStation chart, make a few settings to guide the build process, and press the Build button. The program does the rest. The generated strategies are displayed in the code window, where you can copy them to TradeStation.
How Well Does it Work? As an example, Builder was run on daily bars of a stock index futures market for a small population and a limited number of generations. The performance metrics chosen to guide the build process included the net profit, number of trades, correlation coefficient, statistical significance, and the return/drawdown ratio. Specific targets were set for the number of trades and the return/drawdown ratio. The other selected metrics were maximized.
The build options were set mostly to the defaults. The population size was set to 100 and the number of generations to five. The in-sample/out-of-sample division of data was set to 80% in-sample and 20% out-of-sample (OOS), with the OOS period following the in-sample period. The build process was run over a total of 10 generations. To illustrate how the results evolved during the build, the OOS net profit was recorded after the initial population was generated and after five and 10 generations. The figure below demonstrates that the number of members of the population with OOS net profits of at least $1,000 increases after five and 10 generations.
Similarly, the average OOS net profit of the population increases after five and 10 generations, as shown below. Note that these results are for the OOS net profit. By definition, the out-of-sample data is not used in the build, so OOS results are unbiased; they don’t benefit from hindsight. This implies that the GP process not only tends to improve the in-sample results over successive generations, which is a direct effect of the GP algorithm, but the OOS results also tend to improve as the strategies are evolved.
The equity curve for one of the top strategies after 10 generations is shown below.
** Builder also includes seven bonus strategies for trading stock index and commodity futures, ETF, forex, and stocks. Read more about these bonus strategies.
With Adaptrade Builder, you can...
Your purchase of Builder includes:
The software is designed for both individual and professional traders. The familiar Windows interface makes the program easy to use, and detailed help files are available if needed to explain how to use the program. To get started, all you need is TradeStation or MultiCharts.
Still have questions? Read the online FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions).
Go to the online store to purchase Adaptrade Builder.
Adaptrade Builder $1495 Lifetime License v1.x
Terms & Conditions Ordering Information
THE RISK OF LOSS IN TRADING COMMODITIES CAN BE SUBSTANTIAL. YOU SHOULD THEREFORE CAREFULLY CONSIDER WHETHER SUCH TRADING IS SUITABLE FOR YOU IN LIGHT OF YOUR FINANCIAL CONDITION.
HYPOTHETICAL OR SIMULATED PERFORMANCE RESULTS HAVE CERTAIN INHERENT LIMITATIONS. UNLIKE AN ACTUAL PERFORMANCE RECORD, SIMULATED RESULTS DO NOT REPRESENT ACTUAL TRADING. ALSO, SINCE THE TRADES HAVE NOT ACTUALLY BEEN EXECUTED, THE RESULTS MAY HAVE UNDER- OR OVER-COMPENSATED FOR THE IMPACT, IF ANY, OF CERTAIN MARKET FACTORS, SUCH AS LACK OF LIQUIDITY. SIMULATED TRADING PROGRAMS IN GENERAL ARE ALSO SUBJECT TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE DESIGNED WITH THE BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT. NO REPRESENTATION IS BEING MADE THAT ANY ACCOUNT WILL OR IS LIKELY TO ACHIEVE PROFITS OR LOSSES SIMILAR TO THOSE SHOWN.
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"Just purchased your software and ran the first build on 120 min gold futures 2001-2009. Out of
sample had a higher PF than in sample. ...Very nice. Thanks."
“Just wanted to let you know that I think the builder software is a very worthwhile, awesome tool. It is easy to use and it gives very nice equity curves. I have enjoyed using it very much.” R. W., Eugene, OR
"I'm surprised how fast it is, I thought I have to run it overnight to get a strategy... I use an I7 2,8 GH and a run lasts only some minutes. ... Builder exceeds all my expectations." W. S., Berg, Germany
Read Italian? See the review of Builder in a recently published trading book from Italy: Trading System - La nuova frontiera
Read how Builder was used to develop an intraday gold trading strategy in the July 2011 issue of TASC. |
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