November 2002 Newsletter

I. AI College session ends December 13

This is your last chance for a while to take the NeuroShell Trader Professional Advanced Course. The current session ends Dec. 13, but if you can put in the time, you can still finish by the time the class ends. This is an online course you can take wherever you have a computer and Internet access. The focus is on practical, common sense usage of neural networks, traditional trading strategies, and genetic algorithms. The course consists of 39 lessons, which have a combined 69 slides, each with an audio clip, and 22 of them also have video clips. The audio and video segments are on a CD we send you and the rest of the lessons, including a class discussion forum, are on the web. For more information, visit www.aicollege.com and select course catalog.

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II. Twentieth anniversary sale ends December 1

This year marks the twentieth anniversary that Ward Systems Group has been in business. We want to thank all of our customers, past and present, for keeping us in business by buying our products. To show our appreciation, all of our software is 15% off from now until December 1, 2002. As always, we cannot combine this discount with any other promotions or discounts. You must request the sale when you call us or place your order on our web site. If you use the web site, just mention the sale in the comments box.

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III. Featured Product – Advanced Indicator Set 2

Many of the indicators in Advanced Indicator Set 2 were built at the request of many of you, our users. The most requested ones were Wilder’s indicators, especially the Parabolic SAR. All together we have 9 of Wilder’s indicators in this set.

There were several requests for Chaikin’s indicators: the Chaikin Accumulation/Distribution Oscillator, Chaikin Money Flow Persistency, and Chaikin Volume Accumulation Percent. Since Marc Chaikin is now a user of our software, he was more than willing to check that we built these three indicators correctly.

Advanced Indicator Set 2 also contains, per your requests, the Random Walk Index and another type of wavelet, the Redundant Haar Wavelet.

Another set of indicators was designed by us to enable our users to build their own indicators without programming. In the last year or so, many of you have wanted to build trading strategies that looked for a first event to happen, and then a second event only after the first happened. For example, a buy should occur if first the RSI drops down below 50 and then the RSI rises above 75. To solve the problem we invented the Flag2 indicator, into which you can put two conditions you want to happen in sequence. We also have Flag3, Flag4, and Flag5, as well as several variants of those.

Then we programmed a bunch of other indicators that we just had to call Miscellaneous:

Center Of Gravity Index
Center Of Gravity Oscillator
Median Price
Median Value
Random Walk Index of Highs
Random Walk Index of Lows
RAVI
Retrace Buy
Retrace Sell
Stochastic RSI Oscillator
Variable Length Moving Average
Volatility Breakout High
Volatility Breakout Low

For more information on all the indicators in Advanced Indicator Set 2 use this link in your Internet browser:

http://www.neuroshell.com/addons.asp?ais2

Need we mention that if you take advantage of email delivery and the Twentieth Anniversary Sale (buy before the end of the month), your price for Advanced Indicator Set 2 will be only $211.65?

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IV. NeuroShell Trader release update

In our own offices we are now testing release 4.0, which includes the new Esignal intraday data feed, new charting, the data pump, overnight trading, and a number of other new features. Several of you have expressed a desire to be alpha testers of this new release, and we hope to be notifying our alpha testers very soon about starting the alpha test.

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V. Ward Systems Group closed November 28 and 29

Our offices will be closed to celebrate the US Thanksgiving holiday November 28 and 29. We’ll reopen for business on Monday, December 2.

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VI. Editorial Opinion by Steve Ward, CEO

On this our twentieth anniversary, it’s past time to thank our users, and some special ones come to mind right now.

First of all there’s Marc Chaikin, a famous trader who has not only allowed us to tell his story in the Real Traders section of www.neuroshell.com, but has also consented to let us use his quote in our new ad in Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine.

Next we have Jennifer Gee, who has won the Frederick County High School Science fair three years in a row with our software, and this last year won some major awards at the National Science fair as well. She makes us feel good about the scientific and business potential of the AI Trilogy.

Shashi Mehrotra is also one of our “Real Traders” who has for many years assisted us in various ways, not the least of which was entering and placing second in a major national trading contest using the NeuroShell Trader Professional, and letting us publicize it in our ads.

And then there’s Steve Kratochvil, who has been a major contributor to the NeuroShell Trader forum over the last year or more.

Those aren’t all we need to thank – there are many more. However, I’ll get to more of them in the next newsletter.

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VII. No more newsletters in the future?

No, we aren’t ending this newsletter. But you will think we did if you change your email address and don’t send us your new one!

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