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7 Tips for Successful System Trading
This is a Guest Post by David Bergstrom, he is on twitter @dburgh he is the guy behind the Build Alpha software. He has spent many years researching, building, testing, and implementing market making and trading strategies for a high frequency trading firm, a handful of CTAs, individual clients, registered money managers, and even aspiring retail traders. His website
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Things That a Back Test Does Not Show
Back tests are views into historical price action, they are not crystal balls that show us how profitable a system will be in the future. The best use of backtesting is as a filter to test your ideas and see if they would have worked out in the past before you try to trade them
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Four Free Backtesting Sites
Many new traders wonder how to develop their own entry and exit signals and build their own trading systems. I wanted to share a few sites that provide basic backtesting functionality on a web based platform. These provide enough parameters to begin to get an idea of how different signals perform in different timeframes. First
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10 Chart Facts on $SPY: 3/19/17
$SPY is still in a long term uptrend. $SPY remains above the short term 10 day EMA moving average. Since the gap up day $SPY is in a $239 resistance and $235 support trading range. The $SPY has had an expanding trading range The MACD remains under a bearish crossover. An RSI of 61.74 gives room
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Moving Average Backtest Results: $XLK
Here are three interesting long term moving average backtests of the tech sector ETF $XLK from January 2000 to March 2017. These are examples of long term trend following system for one asset inside the system. Traditional trend following systems are meant to have positions in multiple positions in widely correlated assets. Position sizing in
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The Most Helpful Traders on Twitter 2016- Poll Results
With more than 5,000 votes cast in our annual poll, the results are in! Congratulations to this year’s winner of the Most Helpful Trader on Twitter poll- @Alsabogal! And what a photo-finish, edging out @LMT978 by just two votes! And rounding out the top three was @ACInvestorBlog. Below you can see a list of the
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Top Trading Tweets of Week 9/23/16
The time when the market is closed is when 99% of my work is done. Review the data & prep for next session. Open markets are for executing! — Micah Yo (@micahhyo) September 17, 2016 show me on the chart where the algo touched you — StockCats (@StockCats) September 22, 2016 rumors of a $TWTR
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Interview with Rich Trader Dan Zanger
Who is Dan Zanger? His mother Elaine loved the stock market and Dan would often watch the business channel with her. One day in 1978 Dan saw a stock explode across the ticker tape at the bottom of the screen hitting $1. He made his first purchase and sold the stock a few weeks later
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Top Trading Quotes from Scott Ramsey
Jack Schwager’s interview with Scott Ramsey from Hedge Fund Market Wizards was very clear and to the point. Mr. Ramsey trades futures in an approach that reminded me of the Darvas techno-fundamentalist method. He looks for fundamental reasons for a trade, and then makes his entries and exits based 0n confirmation in the technical price action. “I made
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