Achim Klindworth

The seed for Achim‘s interest in the financial markets was planted during his academic studies at the University of St Andrews and the Imperial College Business School. With a degree in financial economics and quantitative methods in asset management he brings a thorough knowledge to the table. After leaving the banking sector in 2015 he started trading systematically his own portfolio. Since 2017 he has been a full time trader. Achim’s expertise is relative momentum strategies and a proper risk management. He trades mainly global stock markets from Australia, to Canada, the US and Germany.
Where Do You Get Ideas From When Developing New Strategies

Where Do You Get Ideas From When Developing New Strategies

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...

What Learnings Have You Had Trading for a Living

What Learnings Have You Had Trading for a Living

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...

What Got You Interested in Trading

What Got You Interested in Trading

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...

What Are Your Favorite Tools That You’ve Learned Since Being In EST

What Are Your Favorite Tools That You’ve Learned Since Being In EST

My favorite tool that I've learned since being in EST is Amibroker. I also like brute force optimization because it reminds me of what I did for the index strategies. I basically built the environment in Excel and VBA, which did a rolling forward brute force optimization like you have those windows every week. That's a weakness of Amibroker for the brute, for the walking forward. It also takes...

How To Use The On-Balance Volume Indicator to Outperform the Market

How To Use The On-Balance Volume Indicator to Outperform the Market

Introduction to The On-balance Volume IndicatorJoseph Granville, a luminary in technical analysis, revolutionized the field by introducing the groundbreaking On-Balance Volume indicator (OBV) in the early 1960s. Granville's quest was to develop a tool transcending traditional price and volume data, aiming to measure trading volume's significance in predicting price movements. This led to the...

The monthly calendar effect: Profit from Bitcoin’s September weakness

The monthly calendar effect: Profit from Bitcoin’s September weakness

The capital market is known for its dynamics and volatility. There are various factors that can influence the performance of the stock market and even more the crypto market. One of these factors is seasonality. Seasonality is a term that encompasses reoccurring time-related price behavior effects. These effects can pertain to individual calendar months or specific holidays. The crucial aspect...

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