The Importance of Keeping a Trading JournalTrading in the financial markets can be a rollercoaster ride. Whether you're a novice or an experienced trader, the key to consistent success lies in systematic and disciplined trading. And one tool that can significantly enhance your trading game is a trading journal. Effective trading starts with a journal - an absolute must for traders, even as a...
Global Stock Market Update - 16 October 2023Over the past week, several events and trends have significantly impacted the stock market. A couple of things have caught my eye... 1. Market Performance and Predicted Downtrends The S&P 500 seems to be displaying multiple warning signs of a possible selloff, with significant indicators pointing towards a negative market trend including what looks...
Global Stock Market Update - 09 October 2023I got a lot of great feedback on the format of my weekly update last week; thank you to everyone who replied! It is very clear my Real Money demonstration is going to be a hit, so I am busy putting this together for you... It will take me a little while as I have to do a few things: Open some new accounts Move money around Decide on the overall...
Introduction to Seasonal Trends in the Stock MarketThe stock market is a dynamic and constantly changing landscape, subject to a variety of influences that can quickly send waves of change through its financial waters. Amidst this complexity, a powerful yet often overlooked phenomenon emerges year after year: monthly stock market seasonality trends. Stock seasonality is the understanding that...
Global Stock Market Update - 29 September 2023I haven't given you a detailed market update for a while, so I figured it was time... plus I have a new tool that I am pretty excited to share with you. I have long been keen to develop a dashboard to show what is happening in all of the global markets. This week I produced version 1... I will refine it with your feedback - so please comment on this...
The three things I would do differently in my trading and if I went back and started again, is that I would start with Amibroker earlier. It makes backtesting so much easier, more liable, so much less bugs and start trading more different markets. It's a game changer. If you trade Australia and the US, for your return risk profile, it makes a huge difference. Trading more markets instead of more...
I'm very reluctant to take leverage now. This index strategy in leverage of factor three was usual because you leverage up very high, you go down, leverage up very high, you go down. Now my leverage factor on the long side is max 1.3. and 1.4. It's like it's a lot of unexpected downside risk. Sometimes, especially as if you have a momentum and trend following strategy and you like to add up, for...
The advice that I have for traders that are looking to trade institutional money is… First, be aware that institutional money trades differently than we do. Most of the strategies we trade, they cannot trade because the ticket size is too big. Like our trend following system, which works very well because we can trade a lot of small cap stocks, it doesn't work for the big money. If you have 10...
Academic literature is important for trading because I studied financial economics and a Master of Science at Imperial College. It's called Risk Management and Financial Engineering. It was basically like a quantitative finance course, and I like to have very robust strategies. There are a lot of strategies in which there's so much research, trend following, momentum, seasonal strategies, even...
When developing new strategies, I get ideas from browsing around. I follow some experts and listen to Top Traders Unplugged, which are all high-quality institutional hedge fund managers and there's so much insight listening to them. There's also a guy who manages his own portfolio and mentioned Amibroker, he said, "Amibroker has a really good tool to use for stock and hours. Thus, I'm on the...
The learnings that I've had by trading for a living is having confidence in the systems. Last year, the return is not positive, this goes for a lot of trend following momentum traders. For one and a half years I'm in a drawdown and that takes a lot of confidence, emotional pain, especially when this is your main income, and trading is my main income. I have some other incomes, but not generating...
First contact was stock trading I got when I was 16 at an internship at a small insurance guy. He did a lot of technical analysis and a lot of chart reading and stuff. At that point I really liked it, but I lost touch with that. Then through my studies I did an internship at Institutional Asset Management Division from a private bank in Germany, Berenberg Bank. They did everything...