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058 – Adapting to market conditions with John Ehlers

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Building robust trading strategies that can detect and adapt to market conditions can be a real challenge, and failure to do so can often result in poor trading performance and drawdowns.

How can we build more robust trading strategies that adapt to market conditions as they change?

Our guest for this episode, John Ehlers, who was also a guest on episode 48, joins us to share some common problems traders face when building trading strategies, along with tips on how to overcome them.

In our chat you will learn:

  • Tips and techniques to detecting and adapting to market conditions
  • Common problems traders face with indicators and how to fix them
  • The 4 requirements to building a robust trading strategy
  • How the conventional wisdom of using indicators causes late signals and how to use them to anticipate instead
  • A simple technique to determine if your indicators are working properly for the market conditions
Some traders don’t understand how to fit indicators to market activity

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Resources mentioned in this episode

  • To learn more about John and his work, checkout his website mesasoftware.com
  • He can also be contacted on ehlers@mesasoftware.com
  • You can find John Ehlers articles for Stocks & Commodities here

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Use cycles to set the indicator length dynamically as market conditions change

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The most robust strategy is one of reversion to the mean

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Aliasing gives you false positives in your trading signals

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Episode Released:

18 September 2016

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  1. Quantocracy's Daily Wrap for 09/18/2016 | Quantocracy says:
    September 19, 2016 at 3:15 pm

    […] Podcast: Adapting to market conditions with John Ehlers [Better System Trader] Building robust trading strategies that can detect and adapt to market conditions can be a real challenge, and failure to do so can often result in poor trading performance and drawdowns. How can we build more robust trading strategies that adapt to market conditions as they change? Our guest for this episode, John Ehlers, who was also a guest on episode 48, joins us to share some common problems […]

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