Breaking the Black Box

Author: Martin J. Pring, Martin Pring
List Price: $49.95
Our Price: Click to see the latest and low price
ISBN: 0071384057
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade (09 October, 2002)
Sales Rank: 1,099,116
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 out of 5

Customer Reviews

Rating: 4 out of 5
Sound Guidelines for Setting Mechanical System Parameters
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.

Rating: 1 out of 5
A delusion and a legal fraud
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.

Rating: 5 out of 5
Director of IT
Profound concepts on System Development. Easy to understand and implement. Plenty of examples. Excellent book overall.

Similar Products

Trading Systems and Methods
Tradings Systems That Work: Building and Evaluating Effective Trading Systems
How to Select Stocks Using Technical Analysis
Technician's Guide to Day and Swing Trading
Momentum Explained, Volume II


Book Index