Helicopter Parenting
If you have kids, you know the kind of parent I’m talking about. They’re overly involved. Making sure…
Restrict Your Strategy to a Specific Symbol List?
In this week’s episode of Line Your Own Pockets, we have a surprisingly heated discussion about whether to…
The First Thing To Do With Any Backtest Software
You’ve just gotten access to a powerful backtesting engine like Amibroker, RealTest, or Trade-Ideas. You can’t wait to…
Brute Force Optimizations
Here’s a question from Matt H. (name used with permission): Matt H. How do you optimize things like…
Optimizing Time of Day Across Multiple Signals
Long-time list member Fabrizio A. sent me this question (name used with permission): Fabrizio A. Trade-Ideas backtest results present…
Less Precision to Avoid Curve Fitting?
Another question from Hanns K. about the Strategy Cruncher and adding filters to your strategy to make more…
Hide Your P&L? Yes
In this week’s episode of Line Your Own Pockets, we discuss a bad habit that’s easy to avoid:…
Optimizing on Time of Day
Here’s a question from Hanns K. (name used with permission) about optimizing based on time of day. Hanns…
Trading Goals
Do you have a goal to be the best trader in the world? Or to make enough money…
Fold or Raise Situations
As many of you know, I’m a poker enthusiast. In Texas Hold’em, when facing a raise and it’s…