• Trade Long and/or short positions
• Limit losses with Trailing stops
• Trade with market, limit, stop, stop limit, and market on close orders
• Test strategies with commissions, margin, slippage and point value
• Trade a fixed number of shares/contracts, a fixed dollar amount, or a growing number of shares/contracts as profits are made.

Optimization of Trading Strategies Using Genetic Algorithms.

The most powerful feature of the Professional Trader is its ability to build optimum trading strategies even if they do not involve neural nets. It will also optimize all of a strategy if some conditions use nets and some do not. It means the Professional Trader is not just a trading system with neural nets, but a complete artificial intelligence driven trading system. 

The Trading Strategy Wizard begins with a dialog box that offers several choices for optimizing trading strategies. Instead of selecting inputs, or selecting parameters of indicators used as inputs like the Prediction Wizard does, the Trading Strategy Wizard does something different but similar. 

Trading strategies are essentially rules (conditions) that initiate buying or selling whenever some number that you specify are true. The conditions are indicators that may have parameters associated with them, e.g., A>B where A is the net prediction and B is lag(momentum(close,3),2). The GA will select amongst multiple conditions, and also select the parameters in those conditions, as follows: 

1. Parameter Search - all of your conditions (rules) are used, but the GA evolves optimum parameters for you. These parameters do not produce rules that are individually optimum, but optimal as a complete set. 
2. Rule Selection - Chooses among all the rules you have specified, leaving you with only the ones that work best together. 
3. Full Optimization - performs both Parameter Search and Rule Selection at the same time. 
4. No Optimization - Performs just like the Trader's Trading Strategy, not modifying deleting any rules and not modifying any rule parameters.