TTrading Your Stop Loss Is Too TightFebruary 7, 2024 Here’s a note from a fellow reader replying to my post on backtesting without stops. (I always get…
TTrading The Exact Moment I Became a Quant TraderSeptember 13, 2023 In the mid-2000s, when all the wise people in my life were telling me it was a bad…
TTrading How to Create a Profitable Trading StrategyMarch 3, 2024 I’m going to let you in on a little secret. All trading strategies work and all strategies don’t…
Read More TTrading A Daily Trading Goal is a Terrible IdeaJuly 14, 2023 In Annie Duke’s book Quit, she describes a study of the behavior of 2000 cab drivers in New…
Read More TTrading One Question to Identify a Profitable TraderJune 22, 2023 If you’ve traded for any length of time you’ll quickly realize that there are a lot of traders…
Read More TTrading Take Your Best Trades with Bigger SizeJune 16, 2023 Imagine you’re playing poker and one of two scenarios plays out. Scenario A: you’re dealt a pair of…
Read More TTrading Can Limited Time for Trading Be – A Good Thing?June 8, 2023 Fellow reader Sashi N. (posting with permission) contacted me with this trading concern: Hi Dave – my biggest…
Read More TTrading What Manual Traders Can Learn From Systems TradersMay 23, 2023 A reader (Chris, posting with his permission) emailed me recently to ask how he could improve his trading:…
Read More TTrading Reader Question: How to Stop Getting Into Trades Too Early?January 14, 2024 Fellow list member Thomas S. wrote in with the following trading problem (shared with permission): I am a…
Read More TTrading How to Handle Outliers in Your BacktestJuly 8, 2023 Outliers are a tricky problem with backtesting. It’s not uncommon to see a backtest consisting of nice, consistent…