Category Archives: Strategy Development

A Practitioner’s Guide to Diversification

Every finance student is taught the benefits of diversification.  Some learn the requisite formulas and a few even understand how to apply the formulas in practice.  Unfortunately, business schools leave out the most important lesson: the limits and costs of … Continue reading

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7-31-2013 AAR Strategy Update Posted

The July 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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Trader Edge Strategy E-Subscription Now Available: 20% ROR

For the first time, I have decided to offer an e-subscription to the signals from one of my favorite proprietary strategies.  I initially developed this strategy after the 2008 crash for use in my IRA account and have made several … Continue reading

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Use Economic Filters to Reduce Your Strategy Losses

When developing strategies, many systematic traders focus exclusively on technical analysis, with their primary focus on derivatives of price and volume.  A few traders add sentiment and breadth statistics to further enhance their models.  I suggest going one step further: … Continue reading

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Trend-Following Strategy Insights

Trend-following has been around for 40+ years and is one of the most widely-used strategies among commodity trading advisers (CTAs).  In my personal library, I have six different books dedicated to the subject. I have experimented with futures trend-following strategies … Continue reading

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Warning – The Perils of Annuities

The concept is simple: write a single check to an insurance company and receive monthly income for the rest of your life, even if you live to be 100.  No more worries about market crashes, bursting bubbles, interest rate fluctuations, … Continue reading

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Combine Indicators to Identify High-Probability Reversals

I read about this indicator in an article titled “The DMI Stochastic,” which appeared in the January 2013 issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities.  The article was written by Barbara Star.  In the article, Star combined two well-known … Continue reading

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Modified Chartmill Value Indicator (MCVI)

I read about this indicator in an article titled “The Chartmill Value Indicator,” which appeared in the January 2013 issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities.  The article was written by Dirk Vandycke.  In the article, Vandycke introduced an … Continue reading

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