Trading System Concepts and Design
Trading models are created so that the so called human factor can be minimized. Most of the time, production trading models are utilized by firms like hedge funds and larger institutions. Retail traders having access to backtesting tools like TradeStation and other trading platforms can build their own trading systems easily but rarely do they successfully deploy any models to trade their own money.
Over the years I have helped many hedge funds and pro traders developing, refining and maintaining trading models. The sharp contrast between professionals and the retail traders in understanding what trading systems are driving me insane sometimes.
Here is a partial list of articles I have written on building trading system over the years. I have organized the material below into several sections so that it would be easier to find them. Whenever I can locate the rest of the articles I have written will add them here.
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Many people are fixated on the idea of long term "investment" while others would like to explore for better return day trading. Here is an interesting chart with net gains from several trading strategies. You may be surprised by the results ...
This trading setup is kind of complement pattern of the one presented in The One Bullish Setup Everyone Must Know Daytrading Emini S&P. It is short only, strictly day trade from open to close. It has been profitable all these years. Yet no one ev ...
If I am going to tell you that there is one simple day trading setup that works all these years you will probably think that I am kidding. What if I tell you that this setup is long only, strictly day trade from open to close? I must be joking, right ...
This article is going to show you an example on the change in characteristics of the Advance / Decline Issues affecting trading models based on the breadth data. The example system I am going to use is called Conner Hayward Advance Decline Trading Pa ...
I am going to present the first example trading model in this series that exploits the characteristics of the NYSE Tick Index. Most people focus on the intraday behaviour of the Tick Index and forget that it is a great summary statistics tell us what ...
Most of the time, we see traders focus heavily on higher winning rate and at all cost keeping it that way by various measures. System traders and rookie system creators are also obsessed with higher win rate. Is higher win rate really that important? ...
When A Day Starts At 5 pm Forex markets open continuously 5 days a week, 24 hours a day. The usual time the retail forex markets open is on Sunday at 5 pm, North America Eastern time, until Friday at 5 pm in the same week. Some brokerages offer trad ...
Bear Putting is the concept of taking advantage of an established down move to capture a part of the move from its remaining momentum to the down side. Similar to the Bull Putting concept, many traders simply ignore this part of the swing if they are not in a short position already. Some will even try to pick bottom against the prevailing down trend. This article will show you that the correct approach to situation like this is to join the side that is still in control.
Bear Putting Models
Following is 24 hour euro dollar chart with dollar gain per $10K lot in the lower panel. The models are in the market 5% to 6% of the time only.
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Bull Putting is the concept of taking advantage of a strong up swing to catch some profit from the remaining part of the move. The idea is sound but most people would not participate in this kind of trades. Many traders think that they can do better than just collecting scrapes. Well, what they fail to see is that these scrapes add up to a lot of money.
The Daytrading Models
Following is a euro dollar 24 hour chart with dollar gain per $10K lot in the lower panel. The models only stay in the market 7% of the time. It is mutually exclusive with the daytrading version of Simplex Trading System, meaning that their trades do not share the same trading days.
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I am going to present a different kind of swing trading strategy this time using the CBOE Volatility Index VIX to trade S&P 500 ETF (SPY) and Dow 30 ETF (DIA). CBOE VIX is a measure of the implied volatility of the index options on the S&P 5 ...
