Welcome to CodeForTraders !

CodeForTraders is brought to you by Steve Johns (aka Progster), and is dedicated to trader education (via our Forums) and to  making excellent code available to traders using TradeStation and other platforms for analysis and trading of the financial markets.

You can browse the buttons to your left to find out more about this site's goals,  philosophy, and the many specific offerings found here.

Recent News (Dec 2008) - Available now, IOG Visual ScaleOut Exits, and IOG Manual Entry Automation for TradeStation.  The advanced power of Intrabar Order Generation code makes your entries and exits smoother and more accurate than ever!

Prior highlights:

Sept. 2008 - CFT welcomes DIDA to the site!  Kiwi Trendline Limit Entry and Kiwi Trendline Breakout Trading bring on-the-chart trading to the TradeStation platform..  SwissTrader is back!  Follow your market's internals tick-by-tick with his advanced BidAskDelta Package .

New in July 2008 - Progster's Renko BrickBox Strategy  is now available.  Check out winning test results from this strategy in the public Research Section of the CFT Forum.  With the arrival of the BrickBox strategy, CFT now offers 3 completely different mechanical Renko-based strategies for TradeStation. 

AmiBroker has added 2 new advanced optimizers:

Particle Swarm Optimizer
CMAE (Covariance Matrix Adaptation - Evolutionary ) Optimizer

These no-extra-charge upgrades are provided in the context of AB's new optimization plug-in architecture.  Yes, it means what it says.  Entire new optimizers can now be "bolted on" to AmiBroker.  No other program that we know of, at any price point, offers this capability to the retail trader.

The latest release of Worden Blocks features the return of the BackScanner (with a user-settable date range).  Worden has also changed the pricing for Blocks, making it free in the most basic configuration.  Blocks is the premier program for drag-and-drop scanning and (non-optimizing) backtesting.   You can start learning more about it at the Blocks Home Page .

New in March 2008  - Progster's Float Analysis for TradeStation Package has been completely updated to allow automatic use of fundamental float data directly from the TS data network.  Sophisticated float analysis is now easily available to all!

New in Feb 2008 - Progster's Renko Trend Strategy A now available.  Check out lots of interesting test results from this strategy in the public Research Section of the CFT Forum.  Also, don't miss our brand-new MEA videos and Bi-Directional Darvas video .  Nothing conveys the power of these products so well as actually seeing them in action!

New in Jan 2008 - SwissTrader's Renko Bricks Indicator Package for TradeStation is now available thru CFT.

New in December 2007:  Marc Aniballi's MTF Suite for TradeStation is now available thru CodeForTraders.  CFT releases the first commercial 3rd party product for the Worden Blocks platform: Progster's MA List Percentage Dashboard for Blocks.

New in November 2007:  StrataSearch is now available thru CodeForTraders.
Also, check out our latest advancement in trade management for TradeStation: Visual Scale-Out Exits .

New in October 2007:  CodeForTraders.com Forums , connection and collaboration for traders.  Please visit our Forums and join up now, and take advantage of our very special new Club Pricing plan.

We are also very pleased to introduce you to the AmiBroker platform.  Just click on the button at left to learn more about this incredible piece of software.

Recently made available: Visual Stops and Targets.  See things you've never seen!

Available now, the Bi-Directional Darvas Package.  With multiple algorithms for switching back-and-forth between ascending and descending boxes, this all-market, all-timeframe package is your complete laboratory for researching modern notions of trading Darvas-style boxes both long and short.

How happy are you with your exits?  If the answer is "not very", then perhaps a good first step would be to make your exits dynamic.  The 'ATR Exits' package offers an great introduction to that. 

Another flexible exit technique is 'MultiLevel Trailing Stops'.  You can really give your exits a new level of adaptability with this one.

If you'd like to build your TradeStation strategies on a great foundation, you might want to check out Progster's  'Strategy Skeleton Lite'.   Version 09 is the best SSL yet, adding multiple new features, new and improved documentation, and alternate versions for educational comparison and performance timing.  The SSL continues to be a popular package, giving you the cumulative benefit of many, many hours of work over the course of years - but costing just the equivalent of a couple hours of custom programming time.

Bull phase, Bear phase, Chop - how can you predict what the market is going to do next?   You might want to give new thought to 'How Markets Really Work'.   To know the story, you need to do the research!

Would you like to pick your entries manually, then have TradeStation apply the exit strategy of your choice for automated exit?  Did you know this was possible?  It is!   'Manual Entry Automation' provides this much-sought-after capability for TradeStation.

As 2008 wears on, the technology available for sophisticated traders is better than ever.  You'll be able to learn about much of it right here at CFT.  You are invited to subscribe to our Newsletter and join our Forum (the links are to the left)  to keep up-to-date on the very latest.

Thanks for visiting CodeForTraders.  We hope you will drop in on a regular basis to keep yourself up-to-date as our offerings continue to expand.

-  CodeForTraders.com  September 2008