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It does this by combining traditional technical analysis with state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies including neural networks and genetic algorithms. It also features flexible charting tools and customizable spreadsheets, plus the ability to work with entire portfolios of stocks at one time.

How do Neural Networks... work?

The cornerstone of the technology in TradingSolutions is neural networks. By using the neural networks in TradingSolutions, you can predict future stock prices and optimal trading strategies. The process is similar to the way traditional technical analysts look at charts, identifying patterns in the data in order to determine the best times to buy and sell.

Traditional Chart Analysis of BBBY Price Data

Neural Network Model of the Same Data

Neural networks in TradingSolutions take the same approach. Given a history of stock prices or profitable trades, they identify patterns in the relationships between the data and the information available at that time. They can then use this information to determine the best position for you to be in right now.

What is the advantage of using Neural Networks?

Visualization of One of the Neural Network Topologies in TradingSolutions

The advantage to using neural networks can be found in the complexity of the patterns they can identify. This includes patterns that cannot be seen in charts and patterns that could not be easily described through manually entered rules.

In addition to neural networks, TradingSolutions also uses genetic algorithms – a sophisticated search technology that allows TradingSolutions to intelligently search through potential settings of neural networks and trading systems to optimize the profit and consistency of the historical trades*.

The combination of these two technologies makes TradingSolutions a powerful and accurate market timing solution.

* Hypothetical performance results have many inherent limitations. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those shown. In fact, there are frequently sharp differences between hypothetical performance results and the actual results subsequently achieved by any particularly trading program. One of the limitations of hypothetical performance results is that they are generally prepared with the benefit of hindsight. In addition, hypothetical trading does not involve financial risk. Variables such as the ability to adhere to a particular trading program in spite of trading losses as well as maintaining adequate liquidity are material points which can adversely affect actual real trading results.

How can neural network technology benefit you?

One way you can use neural networks is to predict the price of a stock several days in advance. You could then buy or sell that stock based on whether the price was predicted to increase or decrease. TradingSolutions allows you to do this. However, ultimately, what you want to know is the best times to buy or sell a particular stock. Because of this, a more effective way of using neural networks is to model what the best possible trading strategy would have been in the past and apply that strategy to your current trading.

Optimal Signal Allowing for Price Fluctuations

Neural Network Model Based on Optimal Signal

The optimal signal in TradingSolutions makes it easy to identify this strategy. The optimal signal highlights the most profitable trades throughout the history of the stock in a way that makes that information easiest for the neural networks to analyze. Given this analysis of the past, TradingSolutions can create a neural network model of this optimal trading strategy that you can use directly in your portfolio for trading recommendations.

Prefer more hands-on technical analysis?

TradingSolutions includes over 250 built-in functions and technical indicators that can be used to create custom rule-based trading systems, perform chart analyses, and further process the data going into and coming out of the neural networks. Finding the right function for what you want to do is facilitated by the functions being organized into groups and displaying brief descriptions when they are selected. Plus, more information on how a function can be used is just a mouse click away.

General Momentum Functions Group with Description of Selected Function

Building on these functions, you can even create your own custom functions and systems using a point-and-click formula editor!

How will I know if it's a good signal?

Once you have created one or more trading signals, you will want to know how well they perform. TradingSolutions includes powerful signal analysis tools that show you exactly how a neural network or rule-based system would have performed if you had been trading it against a particular stock.

Sample Signal Analysis Overview

Trading styles let you to customize this analysis to your personal approach to trading by allowing you to specify the amount of money or shares you typically like to trade. They also let you experiment with techniques such as short trading, stops, and limits. When you find a signal that you would like to watch or trade, simply select it to be displayed in your portfolio. You can even display continuously updated analyses for your signals!

Getting Data into TradingSolutions

TradingSolutions can be used with almost any date or time-based financial data, including daily (end-of-day), weekly, monthly and real-time intraday data. You can use TradingSolutions to gain a trading edge with a variety of financial instruments, such as U.S. stocks, international stocks (in Canada, UK, Australia, Italy, Germany, etc.), commodities, currencies, and even mutual funds.

Live Trading Signals shown on a Real-Time Streaming Chart

The easiest way to get data into TradingSolutions is to import it directly from one of the built-in data providers. Streaming real-time data is supported using eSignal. End-of-day data is supported by eSignal and Prophet Finance. Both data providers support a wide variety of U.S. and international markets. And, if you already use a different data provider, you can easily use the data from many other data providers by importing that data into TradingSolutions from text or MetaStock files.

Managing Your Data with TradingSolutions

One of the strengths of TradingSolutions is its intuitive portfolio-based interface.

Close-up of the Portfolio View

The Portfolio View is at the center of this, allowing you instant access to your stock data – simply right-click on a stock and select an action to perform. Plus, it is completely customizable, allowing you to sort and display your stock data based on what to trade or what is trading well.

Using the Portfolio View, you can also group your stocks into meaningful groups and perform operations on an entire group at one time. This allows you to quickly try a technique out on stocks sharing similar characteristics and compare the results.

Visualizing Your Data with TradingSolutions

TradingSolutions features flexible charting tools that allow you to visualize your data. You can use charts to view price and equity curves, High/Low/Open/Close bars, Japanese Candlesticks, and other types of charts.

Sample HLOC Chart

Sample Candlestick Chart

You can even view the data behind the charts using customizable spreadsheets. And, you can quickly return to your favorite charts and spreadsheets with restorable data views.

Getting Started with the Solution Service

TradingSolutions makes it easy to get started right away using the FREE TradingSolutions Solution Service.

Sample View of Solution Service Results

The Solution Service provides you with daily trading signals and commentary imported directly into your portfolio. Using the Solution Service, you can use these signals directly as part of your trading strategy and learn by example how to generate your own winning signals.

Advanced Features of TradingSolutions

More than just a black box, TradingSolutions is a sophisticated trading tool built on a powerful neural network engine.

Beginning users can use the Solution Service to get started right away. Then, they can use handy wizards and built-in functions to quickly create signals and predictions using optimized default values.

Intermediate users can build from this by writing their own custom formulas and using advanced tools such as the Correlation Analysis Wizard. Plus, they can look under the hood to fine-tune the neural networks – selecting any of over 50 built-in neural network topologies, each with completely adjustable parameters, such as number of hidden units, memory depth, and learning rates.

Advanced users wanting more flexibility can use the TradingSolutions Suite, which makes it possible to build your own neural network topologies. This option includes our graphical neural network building environment, NeuroSolutions, as well as several popular add-ons to make it easy to further analyze your data and use your custom networks in TradingSolutions.

Want to find out more?

The best way to find out more about TradingSolutions is to contact us for a presentation and we could furnish an evaluation version which includes all of the functionality of the full version so that you can try TradingSolutions for 30 days for free.

This evaluation includes animated demonstrations that introduce the features and concepts of TradingSolutions. You can also perform the annotated step-by-step tutorials to see exactly how the software is used. Plus, the evaluation version gives you the opportunity to try out the TradingSolutions Solution Service, which provides you with trading signals and commentary after every trading day.

Contact us now to obtain the evaluation copy of TradingSolutions!.