Amazon.com description: Product Description: In "Timing Signals in the Futures Markets" Bernstein explores the statistical validity and reliability of both simple and complex systems in use today. In addition to tracing the development and results of timing systems, the book provides practical advice on their implementation including how to implement a technical trading system in real time, predict future entries and exits with greater probabilities of success, avoid excessive and persistent losses that can accompany the inevitable drawdown of a system, implement a trading system with consistency and mechanical precision, learn the discipline necessary to trust a system and fine tune it when needed and avoid the pitfalls of optimization of curve-fitting to historical profits only.