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ProRealTime Coding Made Simple, by Carl C.G. Eriksson

The book

ProRealTime™
coding made simple

Build your own indicators, screeners and trading robots, step by step, even if you have never written a line of code.

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By Carl C.G. Eriksson, founder of ProRealAlgos. Systematic trader since 2015.

What is inside

One book, one robot, built in front of you

The official documentation is complete, but it is a dictionary, not a teacher. This is the book Carl wanted when he started writing his own tools, and could not find.

Seven parts, each one building on the last. A single running example, a pullback robot on the S&P 500, carries you from your first line of code to a system running live on ProOrder. It is a teaching tool, not a recommendation to trade it.

397
pages
28
chapters
124
code listings
28
exercise sets
64
common mistakes
4
appendices
The full table of contents7 parts, 28 chapters, 4 appendices

Part 1

Getting started

  1. Why code your own trading tools
  2. A tour of the ProRealTime workspace
  3. Your first lines of code
  4. How ProRealTime reads your code: bars and history
  5. Numbers, true/false and logic

Part 2

The language toolbox

  1. Making decisions: IF, THEN, ELSE
  2. Loops without fear
  3. Built-in indicators: your free toolbox
  4. Time, dates and sessions
  5. Arrays and other power tools

Part 3

Building indicators

  1. Your first complete indicator
  2. Drawing on the chart
  3. Indicator workshop: five useful tools
  4. Parameters and reusing your code

Part 4

Screeners

  1. ProScreener: let the platform find the trades

Part 5

Trading systems

  1. From indicator to robot
  2. Orders in detail
  3. Stops and targets
  4. Knowing where you are: position state

Part 6

Making it robust

  1. Filters that keep you out of trouble
  2. Position sizing and money management
  3. Multiple timeframes
  4. The complete robot

Part 7

Testing and going live

  1. Reading a backtest like a pro
  2. Optimization without fooling yourself
  3. Stress-testing your robot
  4. Debugging: why it did (or did not) trade
  5. Going live with ProOrder

And at the back

  • AThe 25 most common mistakes
  • BLanguage quick reference
  • CSolutions to every exercise
  • DGlossary

Before you buy

Is this your book?

Yes, if

  • You know what a candle, a moving average, an RSI and a stop loss are
  • You have ProRealTime open, through IG, Interactive Brokers or the standalone platform
  • You are tired of clicking through indicator menus and want to build your own tools
  • You have never written a line of code, and nobody has ever explained what a variable is

No, if

  • You want a strategy to copy. This teaches the language and the testing process, not a system to trade
  • You want the platform documentation. That exists already, and it is free at docs.prorealalgos.com
  • You want someone else to do the work. Every chapter ends with exercises, and they are the point

Who wrote it

Carl C.G. Eriksson

  • Running systematic trading algorithms since 2015, and still running every algo he licenses on his own account.
  • Through ProRealAlgos, licenses plug and play ProRealTime algos to clients in more than 30 countries, through IG in Europe and Interactive Brokers elsewhere.
  • Writes the free ProBuilder reference behind docs.prorealalgos.com: 301 instructions, each one with its own common errors.
  • Publishes backtests and live trading on the ProRealAlgos YouTube channel.
Carl C.G. Eriksson

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Free resources

Four things that are already free

The programme

27 lessons, free, no account

Finding an edge, testing it honestly and running it live. The process behind the robots, in video and worked examples.

The reference

301 ProBuilder instructions

Every instruction with its syntax and the common errors that come with it. The book teaches, this one answers.

The strategies

200 strategies, coded

Entry and exit rules written out as ProBuilder, ready to read, run and pull apart. Worked examples for every chapter.

The statistics

What the numbers actually look like

Published results and risk figures for the algos, so you have something real to hold your own backtests against.

Stop clicking through menus. Start building your own tools.

Paperback, 397 pages, $49 USD.

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