Author Archives: Brian Johnson

About Brian Johnson

I have been an investment professional for over 30 years. I worked as a fixed income portfolio manager, personally managing over $13 billion in assets for institutional clients. I was also the President of a financial consulting and software development firm, developing artificial intelligence based forecasting and risk management systems for institutional investment managers. I am now a full-time proprietary trader in options, futures, stocks, and ETFs using both algorithmic and discretionary trading strategies. In addition to my professional investment experience, I designed and taught courses in financial derivatives for both MBA and undergraduate business programs on a part-time basis for a number of years. I have also written four books on options and derivative strategies.

Choosing the Optimal Strategy

When you backtest systematic, rule-based strategies and your theory finally identifies a proven market inefficiency, you will face an interesting problem: which profitable trading strategy should you choose.  Optimization tools test a number of strategies that are all based on … Continue reading

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Recession Model Forecast 01-01-2014

The following article updates the diffusion index, recession slack index, aggregate recession model, and aggregate peak-trough model through December 2013.

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Non-Farm Payroll (NFP) Forecast – December 2013

This article presents the Trader Edge aggregate neural network model forecast for the December 2013 non-farm payroll data, which is scheduled to be released tomorrow morning at 8:30 AM EST.

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2013 AAR Strategy Results

The AAR strategy is a conservative, long-only, asset allocation strategy that rotates monthly among five large asset classes: large-cap U.S. stocks, developed country stocks in Europe and Asia, emerging market stocks, U.S. Treasury Notes, and commodities. It is one of … Continue reading

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12-31-2013 AAR Strategy Update Posted

The December 31, 2013 AAR Strategy update is now available on the AAR Subscribers page.  If you are not currently a subscriber and would like to learn more about the strategy, there is a detailed description on the AAR Strategy … Continue reading

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Seasons Greetings from Trader Edge

A blog is a surprising amount of work, but the resulting incentive to investigate new research topics and strategies has proved to be invaluable.  Even after 30+ years as an investment professional, I continue to learn more about trading and … Continue reading

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Recession Model Forecast 12-01-2013

The following article updates the diffusion index, recession slack index, aggregate recession model, and aggregate peak-trough model through November 2013.

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Non-Farm Payroll (NFP) Forecast – November 2013

This article presents the Trader Edge aggregate neural network model forecast for the November 2013 non-farm payroll data, which is scheduled to be released tomorrow morning at 8:30 AM EST.

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