Murray A. Ruggiero 

It is with great sadness that I announce that my esteemed colleague and dear friend, the famous and brilliant trader, programmer & author of "Using EasyLanguage 9.x" has died after a short battle with cancer. Please keep him and his wife Angela and their children in your thoughts. He will be sorely missed.  

As my friend, I always  wondered why Murray didn't correct people when they mispronounced his last name. He was Italian and the name is "Ru-gee-arrow" not "Ru-jair-ee-o" like everyone pronounced it. But, he never corrected anyone.

Obituary

Murray A. Ruggiero Jr., of Branford, CT, died June 19, 2021, at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He was the beloved husband of Angela Vigliotti Ruggiero. 

Murray was born March 4, 1963 in New Haven, son of Murray Ruggiero, Sr. and the late, Joanne Vestuti Ruggiero, and grew up in East Haven, CT where he graduated from East Haven High School in 1981. In addition to his wife and father, Murray is survived by his children, Murray A. Ruggiero, III, and Jean Ruggiero, and stepson Anthony Vigliotti.

Murray went to Western and Southern CT State University receiving degrees in Computer Science and Physics Astronomy.

Murray was called "The Einstein of Wall Street" He wrote many books on systems trading and has a patent for "Embedding Neural Networks into a spreadsheet application." Murray was Vice President of Traders Management Consulting creating models and systems for institutional investment firms. He spoke at many conferences for trading as well.

Murray also worked with Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. He was a consultant for the cryptocurrency called Neblio.

Murray was also a poker fan; he always said, "I always like playing against the best players in the world." Murray's biggest poker accomplishment was placing 65th in the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event, Las Vegas NV with a heavily professional player field.

Relatives and friends are invited to a visitation Friday evening from 5:00 – 8:00 at the W. S. Clancy Memorial Funeral Home, 244 North Main Street, Branford and may attend his Mass of Christian Burial Saturday morning at 10:00 in St. John Bosco Parish at St. Mary Church, 731 Main St, Braford. Entombment to follow in All Saints Mausoleum, North Haven.

Murray's Works

Murray Ruggiero was a consultant for several institutional trading firms. He was one of the world’s foremost experts on the use of intermarket and trend analysis in locating and confirming developing price moves in the markets. He was a sought-after speaker at IEEE engineering conventions and symposiums on artificial intelligence. IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is the largest professional association in the world advancing innovation and technological excellence for the benefit of humanity. 

Due to his work on mechanical trading systems, Murray had also has been featured on John Murphy’s CNBC show Tech Talk, proving John’s chart-based trading theories by applying backtested mechanical strategies. (Murphy is known as the father of inter-market analysis.) 

After earning his degree in astrophysics, Murray pioneered work on neural net and artificial intelligence (AI) systems for applications in the investment arena. He was subsequently awarded a patent for the process of embedding a neural network into a spreadsheet, Patent number: 5,241,620.

Murray’s first book, Cybernetic Trading, revealed details of his market analysis and systems testing to a degree seldom seen in the investment world. Reviewers were universal in their praise of the book, and it became a best seller among systems traders, analysts and money managers. 

He has also co-written the book Traders Secrets, with Adrienne Toghraie, interviewing relatively unknown but successful traders and analyzing their trading methodologies. 

Murray was a contributing editor to Futures magazine since 1994, and has written over 160 articles. With almost 30 years of experience as a trading systems designer, Murray dug into the depths of niche and sub-markets, developing very specialized programs to take advantage of opportunities that often escape the public eye, and even experienced high level money managers.

Books

Cybernetic Trading Strategies: Developing a Profitable Trading System with State-of-the-Art Technologies (Wiley Finance Book 68) 

 "The computer can do more than show us pretty pictures. [It] can optimize, backtest, prove or disprove old theories, eliminate the bad ones and make the good ones better. Cybernetic TradingStrategies explores new ways to use the computer and finds ways to make a valuable machine even more valuable." --from the Foreword by John J. Murphy.

Until recently, the computer has been used almost exclusively as a charting and data-gathering tool. But as traders and analysts have quickly discovered, it's capabilities are far more vast. Now, inthis groundbreaking new book, Murray Ruggiero, a leading authority on cybernetic trading systems, unlocks their incredible potential and provides an in-depth look at the growing impact of advanced technologies on intermarket analysis. 

A unique resource, CyberneticTrading Strategies provides specific instructions and applications on how to develop tradable market timing systems using neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, chaos theory, and machine induction methods. Currently utilized by some of the most powerful financial institutions in the world — including John Deere and Fidelity Investments—today's advanced technologies go beyond subjective interpretations of market indicators to enhance traditional analysis. 

As a result, existing trading systems gain a competitive edge. Ruggiero reveals how "incorporating elements of statistical analysis, spectral analysis, neural networks, genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic, and other high-tech concepts into a traditional technical trading system can greatly improve the performance of standard trading systems." 

For example: spectral analysis can be used to detect when a market is trending earlier than classic indicators such as ADX. Drawing on his extensive research on market analysis, Ruggiero provides an incisive overview of cyber-systems—systems that, when applied correctly, can increase trading returns by as much as 200% to 300%. The author covers a wide range of important topics, examining classical technical analysis methodologies and seasonal trading, as well as statistically based market prediction and the mechanization of subjective methods such as candlestick charts and the Elliott Wave. 

Precise explanations and dozens of real-world examples show you how to: 

• Incorporate advanced technologies into classical technical analysis methodologies.
• Identify which of these technologies have the most market applicability.
• Build trading systems to maximize reliability and profitability-based on your own risk/reward criteria.

Most importantly, Cybernetic Trading Strategies  takes you step- by-step through system testing and evaluation, a crucial step for  controlling risk and managing money. With up-to-date information from one of the field's leading authorities, Cybernetic Trading Strategies is the definitive guide to developing, implementing, and testing today's cutting-edge computer trading technologies. 

Traders' Secrets - Psychological and Technical Analyses: Real People Becoming Successful Traders  (with Adrienne Toghraie) 

Model studies of 14 successful traders

Psychological & Technical Analysis: Real People Becoming Successful Traders 

Traders' Secrets passes the two requirements for any book to become a classic&mddash;it combines crystal clarity with the original, insightful detail. Each chapter describes the methods of its interviews in precise detail. It further provides a psychological profile and context.

Too often trading books provide minimal generalizations about trading strategies and systems, and worse yet, negligible detail about all important trading psychology. Consequently, Traders’ Secrets is a fresh, original and valuable break from the norm in trading books. The interviewees in this book have been tremendously helpful and generous in describing their methods, systems, backgrounds and years of research. They come from a variety of backgrounds -fundamentalists, intuitive, technical analysts, stock, futures, com­modities traders. 

There is something for all traders in here. Modeling oneself on the success of others is probably the best way to success for oneself. Why wait to learn from your own mistakes when you can learn from the years of mistakes and successes of others? A feature of Traders’ Secrets Psychological & Technical Analysis I found particularly valuable was the inter­viewee profiles based on analysis and psychology. These ensure that no one should finish a chapter feeling they did not ‘suck the marrow’ from it and learn every single valuable lesson contained therein. 

This feature of the book also amplifies its clarity and means the reader can test the systems for themselves and see what suits their own personality. It’s about time more trading books were written with a similar concern for the leader. The subtitle Real People Becoming Successful Traders only mod­estly hints at a vital feature of the book, namely that these inter­viewees are ‘real’, ‘normal’ traders who have proved successful. They are traders with whom the reader can more readily relate than if they were the Soros’s or Buffet’s of the world. 

The traders in Traders’ Secrets Psychological & Technical Analysis probably make far better trading models than the big institutional traders or fund managers who employ whole research departments and Nobel Laureates to form their systems. (Although, I understand that Nobel Laureates can be a distinct trading disadvantage.) 

The interviewees in this book, unlike some trading ‘wizards’ will not baffle the reader with fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence or undisclosed black box systems. The analysis used by these successful traders is open to all. In researching my own books, probably the most important lesson I have learnt from meeting and interviewing some of the world’s best traders is that there is no substitute for hard work, planning and self-discipline. 

Trading appears deceptively easy, especially in a world of Internet brokers where online accounts can readily be opened. If you want trading success, your path will be shorter and more direct if you read this book. 

Using EasyLanguage 9.x edited and formatted by Sunny J. Harris  BUY NOW

The majority of professional and individual traders use some kind of trading software on which to base their strategies. With over 100,000 users, the most popular trading software today is TradeStation, published by TradeStation Technologies. While this software is favored by many, TradeStation's computer language can be confusing, especially for the novice.“Using EasyLanguage 9.x” is the new and highly updated version of several earlier editions familiarly called “the Putt Book.” 

Previous editions were aimed at earlier versions of TradeStation (4.0 and 2000i) and were each best-selling TradeStation books. Sunny J. Harris author of "TradeStation Made Easy!: Using EasyLanguage to Build Profits with the World's Most Popular Trading Software" edited this book as well as wrote it's foreword.

“Using EasyLanguage 9.x” begins with basic concepts, leading you through learning TradeStation’s programming language, EasyLanguage. The book adroitly winds you into more and more intermediate topics, ending with several advanced topics, such as using text functions to place text on charts, drawing objects, activity bars, and probability maps. 

Whether you want to code your own ideas or to modify code and concepts you have found in magazines and books regarding TradeStation, this book is a must have.The TradeStation code for this book is available for sale as a download on www.UsingEasyLanguage.com in addition to other free bonus code. 

Real People: Real Traders with Adrienne Toghraie

This book contains interviews with traders to whom you can relate. 

They come from all walks of life - starting out as farmers, businessmen, educators, restaurant owners, scientists, house painters, aerospace engineers and salesmen. 

They had to learn how to carve out a living from trading by relying on their own experiences, innate resources, and character, and now they all make a consistent living from their trading. 

Combining analytical and psychological modeling studies of each trader and their strategies, this book is designed to help you determine what you need to beat the odds.

Murray was a true mensch. I never heard a bad word from him or about him. He was always loving and willing to extend a helping hand. Murray was my go-to man for all kinds of coding and trading questions. He was absolutely brilliant. 

He was a great friend! 

He is sorely missed! 

 

Consulting Packages

Sunny has been teaching others to trade almost as long as she has been trading. Helping struggling novices over the hurdles is a passion of hers. Sunny has won awards for her teaching and consulting, being #1 in several categories. Sunny can teach you how to use TradeStation & MultiCharts and EasyLanguage and PowerLanguage, TC2000, VantagePoint, NinjaTrader, Genesis Navigator, and MetaStock so you don't spend months struggling on your own. If you have a concept you want programmed, she can do it for you or teach you how to do it yourself. Click Here.

 

Strategies,  Indicators & Custom Programming

We provide a wide range of software programmed by Sunny for her own trading. We are not a churn and burn shop that puts out lots of indicators for sale, just to have products to sell. 

Each of these unique products is available to help others in their quest for profits. And, they are used by Sunny in her own daily trading. The software includes indicators that make trading smooth and easy, and strategies that can even be automated to provide hands-off trading. Click here for a full list, descriptions, charts and prices.