Books for Beginners

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dannyz
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Books for Beginners

Postby dannyz » 06 Nov 2009

TJ has recommended me two books , " Ask Mr. Easy Language," and , " Building Winning Trading Systems." Does anyone else have any other recommendations on books to learn easy language? or power language

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Postby bowlesj3 » 06 Nov 2009

Not a book but a complete sequential read through the MC EL help is a must (2 or three of these actually over a year or so since your needs change with new knowledge and ideas). On my first pass I made up a list of useful commands to try some time. On my second pass I added a few that did not seem useful during the first pass. Doing the same with the canned EL studies and functions is equally useful.

I forgot. It is handy to put the list of useful commands in some sort of calendar reminder system so you get a reminder of the list every few weeks/months. Life gets busy and it is easy to forget you have that list and where it is. I put it directly in the calendar record itself. After a few reminders you just search for it when you need it. After you remember it is there and do a search you bump it out a year or two for the next reminder.
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Postby oakshadows » 07 Nov 2009

Easylanguage books:

www.TS.com/support/books/default.aspx

[Caveat: Have not used them personally.]

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Postby RobotMan » 09 Nov 2009

Somebody, it might have been TJ (sorry whoever it was), posted a nice site for beginners a while back:
http://markplex.com/tutorials.php
A nice place to start.

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Postby TJ » 09 Nov 2009

these are the books OP referred to in the first post:

The first one is a good starters for learning EasyLanguage,

the second one is a good starter for learning Autotrading.


Ask Mr. Easylanguage
http://www.amazon.com/Ask-Mr-Easylangua ... =8-1-spell

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Building Winning Trading Systems with TS
http://www.amazon.com/Building-Winning- ... gy_b_img_b

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Postby TJ » 09 Nov 2009

before you spend money on books,
you should check out the FREE tutorials and pdf ebooks here:

http://www.tssupport.com/support/tutorials/

Getting Started with EasyLanguage is the ebook you must download if you're thinking about using EasyLanguage but don't know where to start.

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Postby Nick » 20 Nov 2009

You can also learn a lot looking at other peoples code. Take a piece of code and modify it to do some thing else. It really is pretty easy, diving in with a project is not such a bad way to learn.


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