by Adrian Reid | Trading Strategy
A 16-year backtest of a same-day ETF short strategy – and three lessons about stops, order types and leverage that apply to any system you build. Here is a confession most system developers will recognise. I built a short-selling system with a sensible stop...
by Adrian Reid | Stock Trading Systems
Two trading systems each make 20% in a year. Their monthly returns bounce around by almost exactly the same amount, so their Sharpe ratios are nearly identical: 1.21 and 1.20. One of them loses a little in half the months and makes its money in two big winners. The...
by Adrian Reid | Stock Trading Systems
I traded on gut feel for three years and couldn’t make money consistently. Then I made one change, and I’ve traded that same way for more than two decades. That change was moving from discretionary to systematic trading. If you’re reading this, you...
by Adrian Reid | Trading Strategy
Here is a question worth sitting with before you buy your first leveraged ETF. The Nasdaq-100 rises 10% one day and falls 9.09% the next. It is back exactly where it started. You owned a 3x leveraged ETF on that index the whole time. How much did you make? Most people...
by Adrian Reid | Learn Stock Trading
“I’m just hitting the 18-month mark and I’d say I’m break even. I’ve lost a lot of money.” That is a real line from a real trader on a call with me. Eighteen months of screens, charts, courses and early mornings, and the scoreboard...
