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* Print the parameters it comes up with and run a final simulation with these
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* Write out a simulated trading log with profit-and-loss calculations for each simulated trade to a CSV file you can review with any spreadsheet program
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A sample run
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When you run this, most of the outcome will be the progress of the particle swarm optimizer. Some sample output follows:
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01:36:12.597 [main] INFO o.w.b.p.SimpleParticleSwarmOptimizer - Particle swarm initialized
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Let's talk for a second about this strategy compared to buy and hold. Someone who buys shares and holds on to them will profit more than an [active trading](http://www.investopedia.com/active-trading/) strategy like what Bateman suggests, yes; and we will rack up lots of expenses from commissions that eat into our profits. But our trading strategy can also give us much more consistent profits on a day-to-day basis than buy-and-hold, even though buy-and-hold will outperform this strategy in the long term for some stocks.
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What's coming next?
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I'd like to make the program more configurable and more easy to understand.
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I'm planning to have nice, automated plotting of the trading log along with the data trained against with [R](http://www.r-project.org/) and [ggplot2](http://ggplot2.org/) in order to better visualize the simulated trades soon, but for now using existing facilities in Excel or R ad-hoc suffice.
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Thank you
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Hopefully this long-winded README was helpful in understanding what this program does. [Email me]([email protected]) if you have any questions or want to hire me! :)

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