“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler” – Albert Einstein Einstein’s job was to think of scientific theories that explained things we see in nature, it’s likely that he was paraphrasing Occam’s Razor. In other words, the best theory is the simplest one that still explains observations. By the way, this […]
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Trading ideas are everywhere, you just have to look and recognize them. The best ideas are intuitive and easy to explain. A trading idea doesn’t have to be mind blowing to work, it only needs a sound premise. Cobbling together a strategy with a bunch of indicators and tweaking the money management isn’t an idea, […]
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What is a Systems Trader? The answer to that question depends on whether you're talking about the industry of algorithmic trading, or you're talking about the growing community of retail traders that are running their own portfolio of automated trading systems. This website is dedicated to retail traders who want to run their strategies on [...]
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What Is Discretionary Trading? Discretionary trading basically means you do your trading by hand. You take your signals from a variety of sources, or you have a specific strategy or set of tools that help you make trading decisions. There is little or no automation, for the most part you are pushing the buy and [...]
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Don’t let anyone tell you that systems trading stocks or futures is easy. I’ve been speculating in systems trading for nearly 15 years. And it wasn’t until I serendipitously found my mentors, did I start seeing success. The following is what I learned, and I suspect it will work for you too. Step 1. Have […]
