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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...