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#127: CHECK OUT THESE 100 EQUITY CURVES FROM OTHER TRADERS
I’m just about to share with you 100 equity curves of trading strategies from many different traders from all around the World. Their real, hard work. What they have built and accomplished, often in an admirably short period of time. But before that, let me tell you something very important: Every piece of the work you’re about to see has been created by guys like YOU. Seriously. I know many of these traders, and most of them are always busy. Always short on time. Always over
#125: 4 FUTURES JAPANESE YEN TRADING STRATEGIES
Some markets are really tough to develop viable breakout strategies in. Like Japanese Yen (JY). Yet, it can be done. In our hedge fund, we have developed a few of them (all of them are futures Japanese Yen breakout swing strategies). Let me show you some equity curves (all the equity curves are pure out-of-sample compilation). So you get an idea of what they can look like. These are my 4 favorite ones: Notice also the performance beyond the blue vertical line - this is how th
#123: BEAUTIFUL PORTFOLIOS & WOMEN OF MYANMAR
After traveling around East Asia for the last 5 months (again), I’m seriously thinking that Myanmar women are the most beautiful women in the Universe. It’s not just their physical beauty, that makes any man with an appreciation for beauty to freeze. It’s mainly the hard-to-describe, soft, heart-touching energy, that one can’t help but be overwhelmed with. I think this photo alone is worth a thousand words. Are you with me on this one? :-) But of course, we are traders. Not D
#115: TRAVEL THE TRADING WORLD WITH ME
There are two things in life you never say “NO” to. First, when your grandma asks you to taste her freshly-baked homemade apple pie. And second, when a prestigious trading magazine with over 1.2 million readers from 174 countries asks you for an interview. Personally, I consider the ‘Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES’ magazine the #1 magazine for traders. I’ve been reading it for many years and consider the content to always be top quality and highly inspiring. There
#097: WHAT I'VE LEARNED FROM SURVEYING HUNDREDS OF TRADERS
Just a few months ago, I had a great opportunity to participate in conducting a big survey among breakout traders from all around the world to realize what their biggest struggle was. To me, it was a pretty exciting project, because breakout trading has been my full-time job for many years (since 2017 I am also running a private breakout hedge fund) and I am always curious to learn more, not just about the breakout trading itself, but also about what other breakout traders ar
#095: LET'S TALK POSITION SIZING
Last month we have published a post about the optimal stop-loss size. The post obviously brought attention, and I got one very interesting (and important) feedback that I would like to use as a subject for this week’s post. But first, let me post the email and highlight the important part we are going to talk about today: The first (unhighlighted) part of the email probably talks about variable % stop-loss as a % of your capital (which is a more complex topic and I will proba
#093: MODERN WAYS OF POSITION SIZING
When I first started with trading more than a decade ago, I thought trading success was about being right – knowing when to enter the market and milk some money out of it quickly. Pretty soon the markets taught me that this was not the right path to follow! I slowly started shifting my mindset from being right to simple probabilities: I wasn’t concerned about being right or wrong anymore, but rather about how much I lost when the trade didn’t work and how much I made when the
#091: HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I SPILT THE BEANS
I know it's Wednesday… But… My friend Andrew from BetterSystemTrader.com wrote an amazing post about Mondays recently and I felt like sharing it with you, too. So I got his permission to republish it – and here it is, the post about Monday on Wednesday! :) I hope you like it! Happy Monday! Actually, I used to think that statement was an oxymoron before I quit my corporate life. And in fact, my hatred of Mondays used to spill over into my Sunday evening too, once I realised th
#083: SYSTEMS ON THE ROAD WISHES YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
The end of 2017 and the Christmas holidays have inevitably come and gone, and I get to enjoy a brief period of rest and relaxation during these days (currently in Kuala Lumpur, one of my favorite cities in the world). It has been an amazing year for me, mainly because after 3 years of hard work, we have finally launched my hedge fund (with an amazingly positive start) and now we are getting ready for 2018 (with two new CTA programs on the way). Anyway. I would like to take a
