Quantitative trading is buying and selling using objective, tested rules instead of opinion. Here is how the institutional version differs from what a private trader runs on end-of-day data, and how to build your first quantitative trading system.
Adrian Reid
Adrian is a full-time private trader based in Australia and also the Founder and Trading Coach at Enlightened Stock Trading, which focuses on educating and supporting traders on their journey to profitable systems trading. Following his successful adoption of systematic trading which generated him hundreds of thousands of dollars a year using just 30 minutes a day to manage his system trading workflow, Adrian made the easy decision to leave his professional work in the corporate world in 2012. Adrian trades long/short across US, Australian and international stock markets and the cryptocurrency markets.
His trading systems are now fully automated and have consistently outperformed international share markets with dramatically reduced risk over the past 20+ years.
Adrian focuses on building portfolios of profitable, stable and robust long term trading systems to beat market returns with high risk adjusted returns. Adrian teaches traders from all over the world how to get profitable, confident and consistent by trading systematically and backtesting their own trading systems. He helps profitable traders grow and smooth returns by implementing a portfolio of trading systems to make money from different markets and market conditions.
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Richard Dennis and the Turtle Traders Experiment
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Mean Reversion vs Trend Following: Which Fits You?
Mean reversion and trend following compared: how each behaves in different markets, their win rate and drawdown profiles, and why systematic traders run both.
Position Trading: The Complete Guide for Stock Traders
Position trading explained: how it compares to swing and day trading, how it works with end-of-day systems, and how to tell whether it suits your schedule.
How to Backtest a Trading Strategy: Step-by-Step
How to backtest a trading strategy step by step: define objective rules, choose data and software, read the key metrics, and stress-test before risking money.
Stock Trading Courses in Australia: How to Choose
How to choose a stock trading course in Australia: what a course should teach, what AFSL licensing means for you, and the questions to ask before enrolling.
Jim Simons: Lessons From a Systematic Trading Legend
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VIX ETF: What You Are Really Buying, And Why It Decays
VIX ETFs do not hold the VIX. They hold rolling VIX futures that decay in calm markets. Here is what these products actually are, why contango drains them, and what a rules-based trader does instead to protect a portfolio.
Risk Of Ruin Calculator | Free Monte Carlo Tool For Traders
Most risk of ruin calculators assume your trades happen one at a time and have nothing to do with each other. Real portfolios hold several correlated positions at once. This one models that, and the difference is usually large.