As systematic and algorithmic traders, we have a number of tools and processes we can use to test and validate trading strategies. For example, in-sample/out-of-sample testing, walk forward analysis, cluster analysis and a bunch more. (And don’t forget all the fancy named techniques that have … [Read more...]
079 – Strategy Validation with Dave Bergstrom
With the toolsets we have available to us today it’s really quite easy to create a trading strategy by just mining market data. As we've just heard in that opening bit of audio and also from previous podcast guests too, if you try enough combinations you can find something that appears to work … [Read more...]
051 – Strategy Evaluation with Dave Walton
Today we’re covering a topic which can really be a concern for traders of all levels, from beginner to pro, and that is the topic of strategy evaluation. Have you ever found that real-life performance does not match expected results? Or perhaps you have a strategy that is stuck in a drawdown … [Read more...]
036 – Automatic Strategy Creation – Michael Bryant
Creating robust trading strategies can be a difficult task, sometimes taking months or even years to generate something you find acceptable. Even then, once you start trading it live there is no guarantee it’ll work in the future. With strategy creation being such an involved process at times, … [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...]
028 – How effective are indicators (really)? – David Aronson
David Aronson is a pioneer in machine learning and nonlinear trading system development and signal boosting/filtering. He is author of “Evidence Based Technical Analysis” and his most recent book "Statistically Sound Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading of Financial Instruments" is an … [Read more...]
007 – How to get unlimited trading ideas – Rob Hanna
Rob Hanna has been a full-time market professional since 2001. He first began publishing his market views and research in 2003. From 2003 to 2007 his column “Rob Hanna’s Putting It All Together” could be found twice a week on TradingMarkets.com. In 2008 Rob began Quantifiable Edges and in 2012 … [Read more...]
Are your backtest results fooling you?
Have you ever started trading a strategy that performs well in the backtests but delivers a very different result when you begin trading it with real money? Could your backtest reports be fooling you by indicating a strategy is great but really only showing you part of the overall … [Read more...]
005 – Building Trading Strategies – Kevin Davey
Kevin Davey has been developing, analyzing, testing and creating trading strategies for over 25 years, in every futures market from the e-mini S&P to crude oil to corn to cocoa. He placed in the Top 2 of the World Cup Championship of Futures Trading ®* from 2005 - 2007 with the … [Read more...]