Posts Tagged ‘backtesting’
Optimize Your Trading Strategy with Trade Ideas’ Backtesting Tool
Are you looking to improve your trading performance and minimize risk? Backtesting is a powerful technique that allows traders to test their strategies on historical data before applying them to live markets. In this article, we’ll explore how the Trade Ideas platform offers a robust backtesting tool that can help you optimize your trading strategies…
Read MoreFrom training to trading: 10 ways Trade Ideas helps integrate newer, younger traders into the market
By Katie Gomez Today, young minds are bombarded from all sides, overwhelmed by endless information and easily succumbing to choice paralysis. Investing serves as a powerful tool to impart crucial life lessons like long-term planning, responsibility, and patience. However, the plethora of influencers, apps, and brokers vying for attention often leads to decision fatigue. For…
Read MoreGetting Ahead of the Next Big Short Squeeze: Predicting Viral Stocks Before They Go Viral
By Katie Gomez Short squeezes have become a widespread phenomenon in recent years. The surge in meme stocks and viral short squeezes, exemplified by instances like Gamestop and AMC, underscores the significant influence of social media platforms. Social media has played a pivotal role in targeting heavily shorted stocks, igniting massive market rallies and swiftly…
Read MoreDaily Trading Goals Are Terrible
To be successful in any performance-related activity, such as trading, goal-setting is crucial. But not just any goal—not all goals are created equal. Many traders who seek my advice are setting themselves up for failure with the wrong kind of goals. When you’re new to trading, it can be tempting to set a daily goal…
Read MoreEvaluating Your Trading Strategy:The Importance of the Equity Curve
When determining how well a trading strategy is likely to perform in the real world, there’s no better measure than the equity curve. While many traders focus on individual performance indicators such as the annual return (CAGR), Sharpe ratio, Profit Factor, or even Expectancy, these single-number metrics can’t capture the full picture. The equity curve…
Read MoreThe True Impact of Partial Profits
Many traders face a dilemma when a trade quickly turns profitable: should they scale out of the trade to secure partial profits or hold on for potentially greater gains? At first glance, taking partial profits—i.e., closing a portion of your position while leaving some shares open—seems like a sensible move. However, have you ever paused…
Read MoreFrom Backtest to Excel: Unleash Your Data
I’ve been trading the markets for a long time – almost 20 years now. As someone who trades over 15 strategies each day, I want to let you in on a little secret. There is no trading strategy that works in all circumstances. In fact, all strategies work sometimes and not other times. As traders,…
Read MoreThe OddsMaker: Your Trading Superpower
I’ve been trading the markets for a long time – almost 20 years now. As someone who trades over 15 strategies each day, I want to let you in on a little secret. There is no trading strategy that works in all circumstances. In fact, all strategies work sometimes and not other times. As traders,…
Read MoreSecrets to Becoming a Successful Trader
Written by Stockdork We all understand that trading is considered a short-term procedure of buying and selling assets within short durations—daily, weekly or even monthly. As much as trading utilizes strategies that promote short-term maximization of returns, it is possible to use trading in your investment plan. Before we dive right into it, here’s a…
Read More“Wait for the 8” Leads 6 Algos, 1 Short: Holly Morning Huddle Report
Good morning. Here is your Holly Morning Huddle Report. Today the number of Long strategies outnumber the Shorts, but first let’s assess my overall performance. As of today, Thursday, November 17, 2016, the return from my trading performance since January 1 stands at +98.0 accumulated profit points vs the benchmark SPY’s performance of +11.7 points over the same…
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