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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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Pyramid Trading: Enhancing Returns without Increasing Risk

Last week I introduced a framework for adding to losing positions safely.  It is also possible to enhance returns without increasing risk by adding to your winning positions.  The approach is called pyramid trading (not to be confused with pyramid … Continue reading

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Doubling Down: Enhancing Returns without Increasing Risk

Adding to losing positions is a sucker’s game and playing this game continues to bankrupt an ever-expanding group of traders and investment managers. As a rule, traders should never add to losing positions.  However, there are exceptions to every rule.  … 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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