The trading industry is hell bent on getting you to daytrade so that they make more commissions and can charge you higher fees for all of the real time services… Here are some important reasons to think differently about your trading strategy.
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How to deal with outlier trades in Amibroker Backtesting
When backtesting and optimizing your trading system using Amibroker, or any other trading software, you need to be careful how you deal with outlier trades. If you include all outlier trades when you optimize you run a very high risk of curve-fitting your trading system to a small number of the biggest winning trades.
Are You at Risk of Blowing Up Your Trading Account?
Some trading systems are very finely tuned to a particular set of market conditions. The result is they work well for a short period of time and then as soon as the market state changes they lose money rapidly… will your trading system survive a change in market conditions?
Will Your Trading System Survive Changing Market Conditions?
Some trading systems are very finely tuned to a particular set of market conditions. The result is they work well for a short period of time and then as soon as the market state changes they lose money rapidly… will your trading system survive a change in market conditions?
Boredom in Trading: Don’t Make These Trading Mistakes!
I am sitting around bored out of my mind while the removalists pack my house so we can rent it out while we travel for 9 months as a family… I am making a nuisance of myself and getting in the way while I wait for them to clear out the house.
Annoying in the real world, but the same thing happens in the markets when you get bored too… but it is much more dangerous!
The Great Trading Debate: TRADING PSYCHOLOGY OR TRADING SYSTEM?
In this first episode of "The Great Trading Debate", Adrian Reid from Enlightened Stock Trading debates with Brian McAboy from Inside Out Trading about which is more important, Your Trading System OR your Trading Psychology. Comment below and let us know what YOU...
How to begin trading profitably | Learn Stock Trading
Did you know that most active traders in the stock market lose money and quit without ever having made a profit? Do you want to know why so that you can avoid it and actually make money trading? My name's Adrian Reid and I'm the founder of Enlightened Stock Trading,...
The Best Trading Systems Have These Two Characteristics
Great trading systems are difficult to find because trader psychology prevents us from seeing or identifying some of the best edges that are available in the stock market. When you design a trading system your stock market edge needs to be stable and consistent over time, otherwise the trading system will stop working. The key to developing stock trading systems that are stable and continue to be profitable over time is to ensure you take advantage of the psychological mistakes other traders make…which cause them to miss the very best trading opportunities.
Watch this video to learn the two characteristics that all of the best trading systems share!
Stock trading entry signals – Is your entry profitable?
Video Transcript Did you know that the vast majority of entry triggers that many traders use have absolutely zero predictive value and I know better than random? My Name's Adrian Reid and I'm the founder of Enlightened Stock Trading and I've been a systematic...
Can science improve your stock trading?
Someone challenged me today, one of my facebook posts about my claim that stock trading is scientific that was saying that stock trading is a skill and is absolutely not scientific at all. So I recorded this quick video just to share my perspective about why I believe trading can be scientific and how you can use scientific principles to improve your stock trading.