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. If you trade Australia and the US, for your return risk profile, it makes a huge difference. Trading more markets instead of more strategies, starting Amibroker, and maybe it’s okay to have a drawdown of 20% because your potential to make 25 or 30% annual return is so much higher than if you say you just want to have a drawdown of 15%. Then the compounding effect is so much more in your favor. Therefore, these are three learnings I would do differently.

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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.