BBacktesting What Re-Reading Great Fiction Can Teach You About TradingJune 19, 2024 My wife, Joan (who’s well-known enough to have a Wikipedia page), is re-reading some of her favorite fiction…
BBacktesting How To Make Your Strategy More PredictiveMay 22, 2024 Time and time again I see traders give up on a perfectly good trading strategy too soon because…
BBacktesting Humility in Trading Goes a Long WayMay 15, 2024 Here’s my favorite image from my free email course on Backtesting: It’s to reinforce the fact that most…
BBacktesting When Is A Strategy Good Enough To Trade?April 17, 2024 (Note: this post is adapted from the Trading Success Roadmap.) “What metric should I look at to determine…
BBacktesting My Unique Backtesting ProcessMarch 13, 2024 When I first started backtesting, I set out to improve upon a strategy I was already trading manually.…
BBacktesting Using Excel to Improve Your Trading StrategyMarch 6, 2024 One of the most valuable things I do with traders I coach is give them simple rules to…
BBacktesting The Biggest Time Saver in Developing Trading StrategiesFebruary 25, 2024 First, a story about my history as a coder. When I began writing code in the late 90s,…
BBacktesting I Threw Away My First Profitable Strategy – Here’s WhyFebruary 19, 2024 The first strategy I traded was a gap strategy and a continuation play. Gap up? Look to get…
BBacktesting Why I Started BacktestingFebruary 14, 2024 I began serious trading in 2005. My first strategy was purely manual and an imitation of what a…
BBacktesting Why I Backtest Without StopsJanuary 24, 2024 First, look at these two charts each with a trade plotted on each: Both of these trades were…