Category Archives: Course

Turning Automation On

You’ve prepared for this moment, now it’s here. It’s time to release your strategies to the real world of live markets, real money. It can seem scary and daunting, but you are confident because you have done your homework, you have tested your strategies, you know your edge, and you’re completely comfortable with the process. […]

Life Cycle of a Trading Strategy in an Automated Portfolio

Creating automated trading strategies is being presented as super hard work, that takes incredible discipline, lots of brain power and testing, testing and more testing. And only if you follow the prescribe thousands of steps will you achieve success. Well I say that’s a bunch of bunk! Now let’s be clear, I’m not saying it’s […]

Do More Of What Works – Finding An Edge In Systems Trading

There’s so much information out there for traders. You stick your finger in the air and get bombarded with advice, strategies, stock picks, analysts projections, and that’s all good for traders. The more information you have the better. So, the process of learning how to trade should be easy, right? Oh, that is so wrong! […]

How To Come Up With 200 Profitable Trading Ideas

Sounds a bit crazy, that anyone could think up that many tradable ideas, develop, test and then put them into action. But it’s not so crazy if you have a process, and you’re motivated. So, what’s the motivation? The motivation is to build an automated trading system that has some very desirable characteristics, like very […]

Where Do You Get Trading Ideas?

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, […]

How To Trade Oil Futures – The Basics

Crude oil (CL) is one of the more active commodities to trade. It has tremendous volatility and excellent liquidity. Oil is affected by global economic and political conditions, almost to the same extent as US Treasuries. The price of crude oil affects the price of many other assets, including stocks, bonds, currencies and even other […]

Highly Correlated Spreads

Spread or pairs trading is a very effective way to hedge your risk exposure to the movements of the broader market. With pairs trades you can make profits through simple and relatively low-risk positions. The trade is market-neutral, which means the direction of the overall market does not affect profit or loss…it’s the change in […]