Why Cant I Undelete FIles?

I have a Mac Pro with an SSD and HFS+ drive it is only 128 GB so I do have to empty parts of it often. I am considering having an HDD on the side as some programs are taking too much space, yet, I am surprised at the inability to recover materials that have been deleted from the trash can even right after they are deleted.
Yesterday I accidently deleted a few file that I would like to have back. I have not restarted the machine since I emptied the recycling bin with the hope of restoring some of these files at least partially but I am at a lost in what to try next or why recovery programs are not working. Despite trying a few programs that specialize in this sort of thing.
What is most surprising to me is that when I deleted the files I didn't go to any additional length or steps apart from empting the trash can to free this space in the SDD. I did not specify this data needed to be re-written or this part of the disk formatted or anything like that apart from empting the trash can, yet no undelete program is finding anything even with the use of  in-depth scan or raw drive scans of the whole SSD.
I tried various programs from EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard, Data Rescue 3, Seagate File Recovery, Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery, Wondershare Data Recovery, DiskDrill, and a couple others. I have used similar programs before on a PC and Flash drives but I can't find anything I deleted from the past few times I emptied the trash cans with any of these programs much less the few small file I am looking for.
I am wondering why did is the case. Since I haven't restarted the machine or installed much since (apart from the recovery programs), most of what I deleted should still exist in some form but why are these programs not finding anything, is it because it is an SSD hard drive or because of Mavericks OS, not sure, please help if you have some idea about this. Just trying to get back a few files.
Thanks a lot, Alfonso

There is software to try to recover deleted files, but it is expensive. As you are probably aware, deleting files removes the directory pointer, not the data itself. However, OS X now has that space available for use so it will, sooner or later, be overwritten.
There is a warning before one deletes data (unless you disabled it) that deleted files are GONE.
Barry

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