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Typical Technical Research Activities 1.Chart data and summarize its characteristics. 2.Design (or acquire) a variety of technical indicators, or studies. 3.Apply, graph, and evaluate such indicators on various datasets. 4.Develop trading strategies using any number or type of indicators. 5.Test these trading strategies over a wide variety of datasets and time periods. 6.Screen databases for likely trading candidates.

Technical Computer Software Many packages are available that provide extensive menus of analysis and simulation tools. Using them, it may ultimately be possible to do any technical task, but: There may be restrictions on types of data used, or on how data can be combined. Adding to the menu of indicators or studies may require C-like programming skills.

Applying many operations in succession, each to the output of the other, may require a long sequence of the steps: “apply study” “save output”, “add output to database” “apply next study” You can dig a ditch with a spoon, but why do it?

What is really needed is a software research environment in which : 1.You can quickly and easily pass from task to task, combining results in arbitrarily complex ways. 2.Each step of research can build on all previous steps. 3.Extending the software’s capabilities is as easy as using the basic tools. 4.No artificial restrictions or “walls” are imposed by the software.

Financial Data Calculator is such a software environment – a rapid system development environment. This is not a tutorial or sales presentation, but simply an illustration of the software’s capabilities in the hope that you will be interested enough to request a free version and try it. The demonstration will include the following features: We will shortly provide a live demonstration illustrating some of the main points.

1.A calculator interface – Type in any expression - press “Enter” – get the result in its own window having data, plots, and notes. 2.Expressions are formed with a simple “English like” language in which datasets are nouns and operations are verbs – Form any sentence of arbitrary complexity – wysiwyg 3.Easily use the powerful language to make new “verbs” (studies) which then become part of the language – it grows with your use. SOME MAIN FDC FEATURES

4. Use the natural language to form trade simulation verbs of any complexity. They also become part of the language, and can be applied to any data. 5. Edit command lines and immediately reenter expressions – Save sets of command inputs and recall them later – Run lists of commands automatically by pushing the “play” button. 6. Convert any number of ASCII datasets to FDC with one button. Copy a dataset from word, excel, notes, the internet, etc. and immediately paste it as an FDC dataset.

7. Graphs are “active”, allowing in place modifications and additions, and the ability to turn new graphical features into data. 8. Form lists of datasets, trade simulation verbs, or other commands, simply by selecting from directories or other lists. Then automate searches, simulations, and other tasks by using an elementary, high level loop structure based on doing everything in a list.

FDC is free to MTA members – simply download a copy from the web site, send us an with your member number, and we will send you a serial number. We do this because: 1.A “critical mass” of technically skilled users is essential so that we can get informed feedback on the best ways to improve the software and increase its usefulness to traders. 2. Many MTA members create their own software that run on other platforms. Their customers can use all such software in FDC (the plus version). The functions in the dll simply become new “verbs” and the language is thus extended. FDC may be a better platform in which to use this software, and at $ it might reach a much wider audience.