On this episode of BST Live, Doc Ahrens from Trendline Dynamics joined us to discuss “Effective techniques to identify trends”, including: The Macro-trend Analyzer indicator and 3 ways to use moving averages for macro trend analysis,Why it's important to have simple trading solutions and what … [Read more...]
Is it really ‘all in the timing’?
'Whats the difference between a good joke and a bad joke the timing...' OK, OK, I admit that's a pretty crap joke, but in many areas of life timing can make a big difference to the outcome. In the last few months I've been doing alot of automated strategy creation and advanced robustness … [Read more...]
107 – Indicators that adapt to changing market conditions
"I think most traders use canned indicators like a stochastic or RSI or MACD, with a fixed length without thinking much about them." - John Ehlers They take the default length, or one that performed well in a backtest, or even one that has been recommended by someone else, and they start trading … [Read more...]
102 – Is simple or complex better?
I'm currently in Sydney for a week doing some work, and I'm staying in one of the hotels near circular quay, overlooking Sydney Harbour. I won't share name of the hotel because it's a well-known name, and it's actually a really nice hotel... However I had an experience with them when I was … [Read more...]
101 – Trading Price Patterns with Brent Penfold
Most trading strategies are built to find repeatable patterns in the market and then attempt to exploit any future occurrences of the pattern to make a profit. There are lots of different ways to find patterns, and in this episode Brent Penfold talks to us about patterns in price action. Brent … [Read more...]
063 – Market Regimes with Alan Clement
Most trading strategies have an optimal type of market condition where they work at their absolute best, so having an understanding of market conditions and being able to detect and adapt to them can really have a huge impact on trading performance. But how can we measure market regimes … [Read more...]
058 – Adapting to market conditions with John Ehlers
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 … [Read more...]
048 – Indicators, DSP & Cycles with John Ehlers
Trading can be tough, markets are noisy and finding signals in the market noise can be challenging. Also, applying indicators to trading strategies can introduce lag, however a lot of traders don’t even realize the lag their indicators are introducing or the impact it can have on trading. In fact, … [Read more...]
031 – Trend Following & Market Breadth – Greg Morris
Greg Morris was Sr. Vice President, Chief Technical Analyst, and Chairman of the Investment Committee for Stadion Money Management, overseeing the management of over $5.5 billion in assets. He has been featured in the media a number of times, being invited to lecture about technical market … [Read more...]
029 – Monitoring System Health & Rotational Trading – Alan Clement
Alan Clement is a Certified Financial Technician, full time independent trader, quantitative trading systems designer and private investment consultant. He is also a councillor with the Australian Technical Analysts Association and contributes to the technical analysis articles for Fairfax … [Read more...]
020 – Trading Insights from 50+ years – Larry Williams
Larry Williams has been trading futures and stocks for over 50 years. In 1987 he won the World Cup Championship of Futures Trading ®*, turning $10,000 in to over $1.1 million in 12 months, that’s a cool 11,000% return and the highest return to ever be achieved in that competition. 10 years later … [Read more...]