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Automated Market Analysis Platform: StrataSearch

CodeForTraders is proud to be an authorized reseller for the ground-breaking program StrataSearch by Avarin Systems.  If you've been waiting and wishing for an understandable program that will really put your computer(s) to work at the task of automated strategy creation and evaluation, your wait is over.

What It Is

StrataSearch is a program that automatically seeks out new trading strategies from scratch, evaluates and optimizes them, and combines them into a self-improving multi-system which can generate daily signals for trading. 

You can start this process immediately by merely selecting one of the many preset "One-Click Searches" that come with the program.  There is absolutely no easier way to keep your computer constantly engaged in automated analysis of the markets of your choice.

StrataSearch has been carefully designed with the overarching goal of making extremely complex analysis extremely simple to do.  You can literally "push the button", walk away, and come back hours (or days) later to a comprehensive, easily-understood report which is the result of screening and evaluating thousands (or even millions) of newly-generated, complete trading systems, combined in combinations to model the trading of a portfolio on the issues and sectors of your choice.

StrataSearch brings to the individual trader a level of automation that has previously been available only to the deepest-pocketed institutions and hedge funds.   In fact, until you fully understand what StrataSearch can do, you probably have no real idea of  your huge disadvantage relative to the better-equipped players in the marketplace.

Once you understand what StrataSearch can do, you will likely realize that the opportunity to harness this technology for your own trading is such a bargain at the price that failing to do so likely constitutes a trading error of major proportions! ( - Progster )

What It Does

At the lowest level, StrataSearch begins with a database of trading rules. 

Trading Rules are collections of trading formulas that have been programmed, categorized, and placed into StrataSearch's trading rules database.  StrataSearch uses unique processing that then takes these programmed trading rules and combines them into complete and programmatically logical trading strategies.  For example, one trading rule might specify trading when the Close Price is above its Moving Average.  A second trading rule might specify trading only when the Relative Strength Index is below 30.  These trading rules, while packaged separately, can be combined to create a strategy where trading takes place only when the Close Price is above its Moving Average and the Relative Strength Index is below 30.

Using thousands of pre-built trading rules, StrataSearch can continually create unique combinations of trading rules, randomly combining them together to form unique trading strategies.

This process of combination of trading rules to make strategies is called AutoSearch.  Both the rules themselves, and the parameters within those rules are varied during an AutoSearch. 

During AutoSearch, the program makes a subtle, yet powerful distinction between "primary" and "supporting" rules.  Which rules are primary and which are secondary can be controlled by you when an AutoSearch is defined.  A quick overview of AutoSearch (from the excellent StrataSearch Help file):

Suppose you created hundreds of trading rules, each evaluating various aspects of the security, the security's sector, and the overall market.  Next suppose you made the parameters in each trading rule variable as well; for example letting the Relative Strength Index value range anywhere from 5 to 25 instead of being hard-coded at 14.  And then suppose you made every aspect of the assembly of trading rules random, including the number of trading rules that are added to each trading system.  The selection of trading rules themselves could be random.  The parameters used within each trading rules could be random.  The Sector evaluated with each combination could be random.  Finally, suppose all of this was automated such that combinations would be assembled, evaluated and stored, continuously, without your help.  AutoSearch does all this behind the scenes, making it as simple to use as pressing a button.

AutoSearch definition is simply and quickly accomplished via the AutoSearch Setup dialog:

It takes only a few minutes to click through all the tabs, configure the options as desired, and thus define your own custom AutoSearch.  Of course, all your custom AutoSearches will have names and be saved in the StrataSearch Library alongside the multiple AutoSearch definitions which are delivered with the program.

The results of AutoSearch iterations are saved or discarded according to 2-phase accept/reject filtering criteria you supply via the Combination Filters tab of the Trade Settings dialog.  In this regard you can choose to drink from a glass of water, or from a firehose - StrataSearch will accommodate you either way.

AutoSearch alone is a capability far beyond your current trading software.  If AutoSearch were the end of the StrataSearch story, the program would still easily be worth it's asking price.

Amazingly, AutoSearch is merely the beginning of the StrataSearch story ...         

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