Combine Long and Short Strategies to Optimize?
A new Strategy Cruncher user, Dave P, asked this excellent question about whether to combine long and short…
A Clever Way to Avoid Windows Updates
A few days ago, I posted a method to push off the Windows Updates for up to several…
How To Trade Through a Drawdown
Is there anything more painful in trading than a drawdown? I often tell people that trading is like…
The Story an Equity Curve Tells
The most important metric you should use to evaluate your strategies isn’t a metric at all. It’s a…
Simple Strategy Metrics
In my post yesterday on deciding when a strategy is good enough, you may have noticed how imprecise…
When Is a Strategy Good Enough?
You’re creating a trading strategy. You’ve made some tough decisions about filtering using your column library. It looks…
Optimizing Your Strategy
Yesterday, I went over the details of how you can use columns in your backtest to improve your…
The Best Columns Are…
A few of you responded to my last post about some of my favorite columns for creating strategies…
Filter Ideas
Last time, I shared a way to logically classify filters. When creating intraday trading strategies, you should prefer*…
Two Types of Filters
Several years ago, my daughters gave me a t-shirt for Christmas that they knew I’d like. And it…