Turning on Your Trading Idea Spigot
When beginning traders are getting started, they’re typically starving for good ideas for strategies. That’s the bottleneck at…
A Useful Amibroker Keyboard Shortcut
It’s not every day that I learn a new feature in Amibroker, but that happened just yesterday. This…
Amibroker: Coding a Time Stop
Long-time reader Thanit P. (name used with permission) sent me a code snippet in AFL with a question…
Is Trading Gambling?
In this episode, we tackle this popular question. I polled several traders I coach and got some surprising…
Amibroker Performance Tool: Profiler
When troubleshooting Amibroker performance, there’s a valuable tool that most users don’t know about or appreciate. It’s called…
Does Automated Trading Require a Developer?
Early in my career, I remember wondering if I could even write code since I didn’t have a…
Signal Generation and Trade Execution – Separate?
Here’s another great question from a new list member, Chip, about how to set up the code for…
Monte Carlo Simulations for a Backtest
Long-time list member Marek R. wrote in to ask about Monte Carlo simulations (name used with permission). Marek…
Using Alternative Data in a Backtest
In this episode, Michael asks me how to include alternative data in one of his backtests. We discuss:…
Dynamic Sizing Based on Risk?
List member Brandon C. replied in response to my recent post on position sizing with a good question…