There's a slight distinction between switching off and going to cash. All of the systems should eventually go to cash if the market conditions are not suitable, just part of they don't have any more buy signals, and all of the open trades close out. So, you're in cash. The switching off is like, "Oh, the system is broken. I need to stop trading that system." In that case, it's a bit more...
As you grow, there are always holes in your portfolio you can plug. There is market behaviors and scenarios that you could dream up that your portfolio may not do brilliantly well in. Thus, you could create a system to address that. There's always the benefit of adding more, but there is a diminishing benefit. Adding one system is way better than no system, and two systems are way better than...
The purpose is to make sure that the system is yours, that you understand the rules, and you know why the parameter values are chosen where they are. You've satisfied yourself that that's okay. You like the performance, all of these things. It's sort of the handoff from me to you and taking ownership and responsibility is, "Yes, this is my system." Your system now, and you like those parameter...
Adding a system becomes too much depends on you, your routine, capacity, and various other things. For adding a new system, you must execute your current system smoothly, mistake-free, with confidence, and without stress. If you're feeling stressed and anxious about the level of activity that you have to do each day, and you add another system that adds more activity on the same days, this is...
There are a couple of considerations. There was a horror story around 12 or 15 years ago in Australia, where a toll road was listed as a partly paid security, and buying that security came with the obligation to contribute additional capital in two extra tranches at defined points in time. What happened was that toll road was going bust, and the share price dropped to the minimum share price...
As a trader, the temptation to do something is very high. But there's something to resist because the money is not made by trading, but by sitting and doing nothing. That's important because once you're in a trade, you've got to wait. It's only by waiting until you get the exit signal that you'll make money. When you're not in a trade, you've got to wait until you get the right entry signal to...
To pull the trigger and take your new system, certain things have to be in place. First is understanding the rules of my system completely, to be consistent with the paper trading process to know I'm doing the right thing every day, not fumbling, and not making mistakes. Moreover, I also need to be confident that I am doing my position sizing correctly so I don't make a mistake and buy too much...
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It depends on the trading system and the markets that you are trading. The primary principle is to have a level of slippage and commissions in your backtest that represent what you would get in real life. So if you had a system that traded Australian small-cap minors and they were stocks that were all under 5-10 cents which were turning over a couple hundred thousand dollars a day on average....
You've got to trade carefully when the system tells you to trade. When trading systematically, we follow the rules, so we're not saying, "I'm holding ETH, but now I want to hold ADA. So I convert my ETH to ADA." And, "I'm holding ADA, now I want to hold Solana so I convert my ADA to Solana." In that case, you convert what you want to convert. You will have wide spreads, lots of strange fees...
Smashing the myths and misconceptions about stock trading is important to me because I know some of these myths contribute to the high failure rate of new stock traders. Let's dig in and look at some common myths and why they are just WRONG!1. “Stock trading is only for the rich”Not true! This would have been true if you started investing a few decades ago, but not any longer. In the past when...
In Amibroker when you backtest your trading system, one of the most important performance statistics to evaluate is the maximum historical drawdown. When we talk about the maximum historical drawdown of a system, we want to find the percentage drop from a high in the equity curve to a subsequent low at any point in the backtest. So now, the trading software will look at every high point and...