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The Ultimate Guide To Successful Algorithmic Trading
Pretty much everyone who has programmed a computer to doanything beyond outputting “Hello World” has dreamed of having a computer algorithm (algo)
Do Stop Losses Always Work? (Can Stop Losses Fail?)
One of the most important aspects of trading is that of managing and preserving your capital. If you lose all of your
Will A Synthetic VIX Help Your Trading?
On a recent discussion on our EasyLanguage Mastery FaceBook group, a reader pointed out an interesting indicator called, VIX Fix. The VIX
How to Transform any Indicator in Histogram
In this EasyLanguage Tutorial, we show you how to use the TradeStation Histogram visual mode. Many traders don't like to have the
Why You Shouldn’t Use Python for Algorithmic Trading (And Easylanguage Instead)
When traders look into learning algorithmic trading, they have to choose not only a trading platform, but also a programming language. There are
Intermarket State Analysis
For the past 20 years I’ve been teaching my concept of intermarket divergence. If you’re not familiar intermarket divergence let me briefly
How to Run TradeStation on a Mac (Updated for 2020)
I been using TradeStation on a Mac since 2010. The best tech decision I ever made! But it hasn’t all been plain
Free Trend Following System With Indicator Tracker
Free Trend Following SystemHere is a free Trend Following System that I read about on Andreas Clenow’s www.followthetrend.com website and from his book.
Going Live With Automation
Going live with an automated strategy is one of the coolest, but also scariest things you can do in trading. Here you
How To Build Profitable Trading Systems
Building a profitable trading system is very difficult. I'm not going to sugarcoat it. It's a challenging project where most of your
Why You Need To Trade Live NOW!
I’m often asked, how will I know when a trading system is ready to go live? After much testing and verification the
3 Techniques to Avoid Consecutive Losing Trades
In my experience trading futures, I have found that most damaging losses are caused by taking consecutive losing trades, i.e. runs of
Opening Range Breakout Trading Strategy Design and Implementation
The goal of this research is to find various set-ups and exit strategies that could be used for trading the opening range
A Flexible Trailing Stop Function
The Anatomy of a StopA stop can be defined by specifying four basic parameters, illustrated in Figure 1 below:Price Reference: The price from
Reasonable capital required for day trading futures?
A good rule of thumb is that a reasonable risk per day for a day trader is from 2% to 5%. A moderate
In-Sample and Out-Of-Sample Testing
I am frequently asked if I do out-of-sample testing. The short answer is not always and when I do, it is not
3 Huge Algo Trading Mistakes To Avoid
For most traders, algo strategy development is merely a means to an end - a necessary evil to be endured on the
A Project for TradeStation Day-Traders
Here is a neat little day trader system that takes advantage of what some technicians call a “CLEAR OUT” trade. Basically traders
Better RSI Entries
Mean reversion systems, such as those based on RSI, suffer significant performance degradation when stop losses are applied for risk control. In
Why You Should Really Optimize and Even If You Don’t
Why You Really Should Optimize And Even If You Don’t… Today’s topic is on optimization. Some system developers don’t believe in optimization.
Are your backtest results fooling you?
Have you ever started trading a strategy that performs well in the backtests but delivers a very different result when you begin trading it
Is The Christmas Season Bullish For U.S. Markets?
With the Christmas season upon us, I thought it would be interesting to review how the S&P behaves in the days just
World’s Simplest Trading System
[NB. OK, it's possible that this isn't absolutely the simplest trading system imaginable, but apart from buy and hold it is unlikely