{"product_id":"v1260behmacv","title":"V. 12:14 (605-608): Behold! Macintosh version 2.2 by John Sweeney","description":"Behold!\nMacintosh version 2.2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby John Sweeney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoftware developers have successfully installed trading system logic in most prominent packages for\nDOS and Windows users. Rarer is the complete package for the Macintosh user. One prominent\ndevelopment environment for the Mac is Behold!. Combining graphics, spreadsheet data manipulation,\ntrading rules and testing results in one program, Behold! makes system development as easy as it's likely\nto get.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing Behold! is like starting with a Microsoft Excel worksheet that has miraculously sprouted an\nautomatic graphing capability and a simple means of specifying trading rules. Those of us who've\npainstakingly contorted Excel into trading models have enjoyed the freedom of data access and the power\nof the formulary but cursed the manipulations necessary for graphs and the tedious summarizing of\ntesting results. After many iterations, you have a generic testing model into which you slap new data now\nand then, but there always seems to be another tweak necessary, leading you into spending more time\nprogramming than conceptualizing trading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAN EDUCATIONAL APPROACH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBehold! developer Jim Payne is clearly familiar with trading system development as well as the benefits\nof the spreadsheet format. However, Payne didn't stop there. Another major plus of Behold! is the\ninstructional approach of the manual.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReading the manual is not only an exercise in familiarization but also a course of study in system\ndevelopment. What other manual throws in a great quick-and-dirty calculation for figuring the number of\ntrades to reach 95% confidence levels? Or explains why you'd want to cut up data files to test segments\nindividually? Or gets into terminal wealth relatives (the ratio of original capital to final capital for\noptimal capital traded), as popularized by Ralph Vince?","brand":"store-traders-com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52133919654257,"sku":"\\V12\\C14\\R605.PDF","price":5.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0900\/3843\/6209\/files\/unnamed_6ac69e93-1625-47a9-9f74-1b3021e74642.jpg?v=1739657307","url":"https:\/\/shop.traders.com\/products\/v1260behmacv","provider":"Stocks \u0026 Commodities","version":"1.0","type":"link"}