Trading Books: Modeling Trading System Performance: Monte Carlo Simulation, Position Sizing, Risk Management, and Statistics

Author: Howard B. Bandy
Publisher: Blue Owl Press
Year: 2011

Topics Covered: 

  • Understanding what is predictable and what is not
  • Understanding variability and risk
  • Characteristics of trading systems
  • Monte Carlo simulation
  • Statistical tests
  • Trading as a business
  • Realistic estimates of equity growth

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Adrian is a full-time private trader based in Australia and also the Founder and Trading Coach at Enlightened Stock Trading, which focuses on educating and supporting traders on their journey to profitable systems trading. Following his successful adoption of systematic trading which generated him hundreds of thousands of dollars a year using just 30 minutes a day to manage his system trading workflow, Adrian made the easy decision to leave his professional work in the corporate world in 2012. Adrian trades long/short across US, Australian and international stock markets and the cryptocurrency markets. His trading systems are now fully automated and have consistently outperformed international share markets with dramatically reduced risk over the past 20+ years. Adrian focuses on building portfolios of profitable, stable and robust long term trading systems to beat market returns with high risk adjusted returns. Adrian teaches traders from all over the world how to get profitable, confident and consistent by trading systematically and backtesting their own trading systems. He helps profitable traders grow and smooth returns by implementing a portfolio of trading systems to make money from different markets and market conditions.