Tag Archives: strategy development

Choosing the Optimal Strategy

Posted on January 23, 2014 by

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

Posted on September 26, 2013 by

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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Top 10 Trader Edge Articles

Posted on August 22, 2013 by

I started Trader Edge almost 18 months ago and it just occurred to me that I had never provided a list of the most popular articles on the site.  If you did not get a chance to read these articles … Continue reading →

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Use Economic Filters to Reduce Your Strategy Losses

Posted on July 18, 2013 by

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

Posted on June 27, 2013 by

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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