We bottom when around 90% of guests on CNBC and Bloomberg are predicting a recession and a deeper bear market. We are currently at around 95%.
I am not sure why performance hasn't changed for you. For me, if I use a fast indicator designed to catch short-term trends (for example 10 days...
Perhaps I should try to better define what exactly do I mean by "noise". The easiest and most general way is to compare a weekly chart over 50...
Imagine that at any point in time, billions of dollars are waiting on the sidelines managed by thousands of fund managers or algorithms. They have...
I like to think of strategy building as choosing trade-offs. If you try to catch trends early, you have to accept more false signals. If you try...
I think there are several issues when developing a strategy just to trade equities. The main problem is that stocks are highly correlated with...
I trade a trend following strategy myself, and these statistics seem reasonable. However, 10 years might be too short for stocks, since a large...
I am a professional portfolio manager for a family office and we would buy structured notes regularly. The main reason for using them is to...
You will only know if the strategy is robust after a thorough backtest. Given that you are comfortable with Excel, I suggest picking up Excel...
I have a question for trend followers: Trend following strategies seems to have entered into a serious drawdown since 2016, at least based on the...
I only recently started to trade for friends and family and I kinda anticipated that they were expecting a get-rich-quick opportunity. So right...
Hi! I am Singaporean and I have only recently started trading my strategy live.
I think this is a great question, but I am afraid I do not have the perfect answer for it. Firstly, I don't think it is possible to predict how...
For trend following strategies to do well enough to be a worthy investment, the mere existence of trends is not enough. For a medium to long term...
Any investment or trading strategy that I had ever come across, had at some point experienced periods of poor performance. To gauge whether a...
Selling religion has been a very lucrative trade since the beginning of time.
Even for market makers, you need a healthy level of trading activity. Traders hitting the buy and sell queues allowing you to earn the spread. In...
I guess it depends on what kind of instruments you will be trading. For futures, 20k capital means you won't be able to trade some markets or size...
I guess generally the entry rules for trend following are pretty much the same. But I was thinking if anyone found an area that is particularly...
Hi KCOJ. Perhaps I should elaborate on what I mean by maximizing winning trades. I mean to maximise the returns from winning trades in the sense...
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