Breaking the Black Box

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Summary: Sound Guidelines for Setting Mechanical System Parameters
Review: Breaking the Black Box was not written for lazy traders. There is no Holy Grail. Traders who want to learn the skill of building a functional system will benefit from this CD tutorial. If you're looking for unreal profits and wild promises, you won't find it here! Great, sound advise.

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Summary: A delusion and a legal fraud
Review: It doesn't break any black box. The author writes with it's usual clarity but the text does not keep up with it's promises at all. It generalizes about trading systems but it does not give any real advise. It is in line with the author who is good in teaching the basis of TA but nothing else. Unfortunately famous persons obtain a large following even with routine and useless productions like this. John Sweeney, in the back cover page of the book, states: "....a good introduction to system developments and helpul in supplying trading ideas....". That is right: introduction, no more. Ideas, right or wrong, are everywhere. Also don't get fooled by the CD ROM which comes with the book. It is just a tutorial (no productive software) and, in order to force you to see his site, where you are offered other (a lot of) things, the CD runs only with MS WIN NT. I was able to use it with Win 2000 but why not produce and offer it for the most widespread WIN operating system? Unfortunately exploiting losers is the rule. Extremely sad! Don't buy this book. There are a lot of them much better on trading systems.

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Summary: Director of IT
Review: Profound concepts on System Development. Easy to understand and implement. Plenty of examples. Excellent book overall.