10 Steps to Create a Profitable Trading System in Excel: Getting Started Guide

Learn the Basics of Building Profitable Trading Models in Excel from a Wall Street veteran with over 15 years experience. Excel has tremendous benefits as a tool for traders and investors, including the ability to build trading systems for little or no cost. If you are just getting started or would like to increase your knowledge of using Excel in your own trading, this guide is an excellent starting point.

Benefits to you:

- Learn the 10 specific steps required to design and build your own trading strategies in Excel.
- Discover the process to successfully create profitable trading systems -- and the pitfalls to avoid that can lose a lot of money.
- Understand the three main components of an Excel-based trading model and why they are important.
- Find little-known tools that will dramatically reduce the time and effort required to build and test a trading model in Excel.
- Save countless hours of unnecessary (and expensive) trial and error -- learn to do it correctly the first time.

Key topics covered:

Step 1: Your Trading Strategy Concept
Step 2: Create Your Trading Strategy Rules
Step 3: Create Your Excel Model Layout
Step 4: Build Your Excel Model Formulas
Step 5: Import Market Data into Excel
Step 6: Automate Your Excel Model with VBA Code
Step 7: Plan Your Trade Execution
Step 8: Back Test Your Excel Trading Model
Step 9: Forward Test Your Excel Trading Model
Step 10: Go Live!
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