Introduction To Algo Trading: How Retail Traders Can Successfully Compete With Professional Traders (Essential Algo Trading Package) Paperback – May 8, 2018

So i never write reviews so take this for what it's worth. I have purchased thousands of dollars of financial books. In fact i have an extremely large book case of only financial books in my office; from fundamentals to classics like investment valuation to nearly all of Buffet's books to Remininincenses of a stock operator to whole host of books in-between. Let me say this- the are all good They all offer solid advice oh physiology, risk management and everything in between topics. However, no book i have ever read is directly actionable in the market to make money. Saying risk management is the fundamental key to success is absolutely true but at the end of the day isn't all the actionable. Just sound advice which we should adhere to is great but nothing all that is all that concrete to be honest.Kevin Davey in all his books breaks the mold. He gives sounds advice on how to make an algorithm trading system actionable. You need to gather specific ideas to tweak and modify to make your own and to ultimately implement strategies to make money- whether full time or the greatest side hustle of all time. Kevin is not going to give you code where you can copy and paste and make millions but will show you exactly how to get started and then let your own ideas take over.If you have interest in the topic and actually have the wherewithal to get started, you should read one author and one author only and that is Kevin Daley. You may read it and never do anything with it or you may read it, take action and it might change your life forever where you can do great great things in life.I choose to take action and hopefully make enough money where we can give significant money back to local causes and i would say if that comes true- it would be 100% because of Kevin and his writings and for that i just want to thank you.EVERYYONE SHOULD START WITH BOOK AND HIS OTHERS.Ryan Mitchell

I like the book. I like the writing style. I've been a stock broker for 20 years and it came across to me as basic. But if you've not had the background of being a trader or a broker, then this will be a great place to start.

As a long time investor in stocks, mutual funds, options and most recently futures I was looking to learn more about Algorithmic trading for the retail trader and ran across Kevin Davey. I liked the fact that he emphasizes basic principles and setting realistic goals. Even stating that Algo trading is not for every investor and may not be for you. I was going to buy his first book but this one seemed more appropriate for me plus It was brand new. It is an up to date easy to read guide to the basics. Graphics are a little weak though, small and hard to see but he actually will send them all to you them as .tif files so you can see them clearly.The book also provides step by step instructions in how to get started. I feel this book got me pointed in the right direction to begin developing my own strategies.

Appropriate for the beginner, and the writing style is very accessible for the ordinary person. Would have been great if more college text books were as easy to read. However, nearly all the pictures were missing in the Kindle version from Figure 5 to the end of the book, so you miss a lot of charts and diagrams.

I've been trading algorithmically for eight years. This is one of the best books that I've seen for a beginning algorithmic trader. I wish it had been available when I was starting out! Instead, I had to learn from the school of hard knocks. (I made plenty of mistakes at first.)This book is rather sort. However, it offers excellent "getting started" introduction of why algorithmic trading can work (if done correctly) and discusses the software packages that you'll need to get started. It doesn't get into the details of specific trading algorithms (a more-advanced topic), but it will help get you started.After you've read this book, you can turn to other books, like those from Larry Connors or Keith Fitschen, for ideas about specific trading strategies that provably work. This book gives you the enough information to get started with testing and programming strategies like these for yourself.

Like the title states, this is an introduction level book and for that it's great. It doesn't bog you down with all the details but gives a great overall preview of Algo trading and the fundamentals around it.

The book claims are unjustified to speak mildly. I really wasn't looking for an overly basic defn of algo trading and some sloppy high level rules to live by. Yes, the author does provide some examples. But they are good if you happen to have TradeStation. He should have made less exaggerated claims and should have noted in bold - examples are only applicable to TradeStation. I thought even $2.99 for a worthless overly basic book like this was too high. I can't spend time complaining Amazon for refund for such a small amount. But want to alert everyone in case you get fooled by positive reviews hee. Not worth your time.

For beginners, this is good but you can search tradestation easy language introduction on YouTube and find all the information you need. It could be better if it has some more examples.