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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Introduction to The On-balance Volume Indicator Joseph 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...
If you have wondered what reverse stock splits are or how to profit from them, you are in the right place! In the dynamic world of stock trading, staying ahead and generating consistent returns requires not only positive expectancy trading systems and good position...
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...