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EP95: Programmer and Forex Trader
CLICK HERE TO MEET ADAM AT THE LONDON CONFERENCE
In this episode of Truth About FX, a special guest joins Walter to talk about automating your trading systems and what it’s like to be trading for a hedge fund. Adam Hartley is a long-time forex trader and programmer with a Doctorate in Physics. His background gives an interesting twist on how he treats his charts and developing his strategies through algorithms.
And, you’ll here about a good tip on how to spot a true ECN. More on this episode…
Download (Duration: 40:39 / 46.5 MB)
In This Episode:
01:21 – hanging over you
03:23 – globalization
05:57 – purely mechanical
07:57 – bad patch
10:24 – dark art
24:49 – big, impulsive moves
28:12 – accelerated
32:54 – purely mechanical
35:35 – trend biases
38:46 – how to spot a true ECN?
Tweetables:
Make a living in doing what you love [Click To Tweet].
Those occasional winners can make the difference [Click To Tweet].
Balance the risk/reward against the hit rate [Click To Tweet].
Announcer: Sometimes, forex trading can be a wild and wooly place to be but, forex trading doesn’t have to be the bad lands for your partner. Instead, hunker down and bend your ear. You will be burning the breeze in no time here at the Truth About FX Podcast.
Walter: Welcome! It’s Walter here. Today, we have Adam Hartley. Adam has been programming for over 20 years. He has a Doctorate in Physics and he’s got quite a background in programming. So, it’s going to be an interesting conversation because Adam is going to shed a little bit a light on the Algo Boogies, perhaps, and what it’s like to work for hedge fund. So, welcome Adam.
Adam: Hi there, Walter. How are you?
Walter: Great! So, Adam, this is really interesting because there aren’t a lot of people like you out there who are willing to talk. I am just curious about your background. How is it that you went from Physics into, essentially, programming algorithms? How did you make that jump? I guess, I suppose what’s your story like? How did you get to where you are today?
Adam: Sure. Well, as you said I started off in academia. I was studying Physics and during my Doctorate in Physics and there’s always this thing hanging over you: where the next bit of money will be coming from as an academic and I was starting to worry what will I do if the funding ran out because I was enjoying the Physics.
So, I started out. I’ve always been quite interested in the market. I started to think, “Well, maybe I could sort of figure out the market. How hard can it be?” So, I started to get interested in it, read some books and started to code up a few little simple indicators, really basic stuff back then.
I just really got into it. I got more and more addictive to it. I wanted to do work, hard work, didn’t find it easy as I thought. I tried to do a little bit of spread backing b...
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By Walter Peters (FXJake) and Hugh Kimura (Trading Heroes)CLICK HERE TO MEET ADAM AT THE LONDON CONFERENCE
In this episode of Truth About FX, a special guest joins Walter to talk about automating your trading systems and what it’s like to be trading for a hedge fund. Adam Hartley is a long-time forex trader and programmer with a Doctorate in Physics. His background gives an interesting twist on how he treats his charts and developing his strategies through algorithms.
And, you’ll here about a good tip on how to spot a true ECN. More on this episode…
Download (Duration: 40:39 / 46.5 MB)
In This Episode:
01:21 – hanging over you
03:23 – globalization
05:57 – purely mechanical
07:57 – bad patch
10:24 – dark art
24:49 – big, impulsive moves
28:12 – accelerated
32:54 – purely mechanical
35:35 – trend biases
38:46 – how to spot a true ECN?
Tweetables:
Make a living in doing what you love [Click To Tweet].
Those occasional winners can make the difference [Click To Tweet].
Balance the risk/reward against the hit rate [Click To Tweet].
Announcer: Sometimes, forex trading can be a wild and wooly place to be but, forex trading doesn’t have to be the bad lands for your partner. Instead, hunker down and bend your ear. You will be burning the breeze in no time here at the Truth About FX Podcast.
Walter: Welcome! It’s Walter here. Today, we have Adam Hartley. Adam has been programming for over 20 years. He has a Doctorate in Physics and he’s got quite a background in programming. So, it’s going to be an interesting conversation because Adam is going to shed a little bit a light on the Algo Boogies, perhaps, and what it’s like to work for hedge fund. So, welcome Adam.
Adam: Hi there, Walter. How are you?
Walter: Great! So, Adam, this is really interesting because there aren’t a lot of people like you out there who are willing to talk. I am just curious about your background. How is it that you went from Physics into, essentially, programming algorithms? How did you make that jump? I guess, I suppose what’s your story like? How did you get to where you are today?
Adam: Sure. Well, as you said I started off in academia. I was studying Physics and during my Doctorate in Physics and there’s always this thing hanging over you: where the next bit of money will be coming from as an academic and I was starting to worry what will I do if the funding ran out because I was enjoying the Physics.
So, I started out. I’ve always been quite interested in the market. I started to think, “Well, maybe I could sort of figure out the market. How hard can it be?” So, I started to get interested in it, read some books and started to code up a few little simple indicators, really basic stuff back then.
I just really got into it. I got more and more addictive to it. I wanted to do work, hard work, didn’t find it easy as I thought. I tried to do a little bit of spread backing b...