Line Your Own Pockets

By Dave Mabe and Michael NaussBusiness Investing

Line Your Own Pockets episodes

June 23, 2025The Key to Backtesting: Your Library of Columns
The second episode in our series on creating profitable strategies using backtesting.
We review:
How most traders backtest the wrong way
How to add columns to your backtest
What columns make the most sense
How your "library of columns" gets more and more valuable over time
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Before you go!
The next time you find yourself in a drawdown, I want you to stop what you're doing and head on over to betterbacktesting.com to sign up for my free backtesting email course.
I hope to see you there!
47 min
June 16, 2025 You're Probably Backtesting Wrong
The first episode in a mini-series on how to create a trading strategy using backtesting.

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Before you go!
The next time you find yourself in a drawdown, I want you to stop what you're doing and head on over to betterbacktesting.com to sign up for my free backtesting email course.
I hope to see you there!
45 min
June 09, 2025 How Real Traders Use AI to Trade
We discuss Dave's recent experience using ChatGPT to create the Strategy Cruncher, a tool for optimizing your trading strategies.
Prediction market for who will have the best AI model by the end of the year.

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Before you go!
The next time you find yourself in a drawdown, I want you to stop what you're doing and head on over to betterbacktesting.com to sign up for my free backtesting email course.
I hope to see you there!
49 min
June 02, 2025 What Metric Should You Be Optimizing For?
Every trader has an opinion on what the perfect metric is to evaluate a strategy and to optimize on.
We discuss our favorites and why.

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Before you go!
The next time you find yourself in a drawdown, I want you to stop what you're doing and head on over to betterbacktesting.com to sign up for my free backtesting email course.
I hope to see you there!
48 min
May 26, 2025 How Far Back Should Your Backtest Look Good?
"If your backtest looks great for the last 3 months, why do you care what it looked like before that?"
A trader Dave started coaching recently asked this question. The answer cuts to the core of why most traders give up on a trading strategy and end up quitting trading altogether.
The Spurious Correlations website that was mentioned in the podcast.

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Before you go!
The next time you find yourself in a drawdown, I want you to stop what you're doing and head on over to betterbacktesting.com to sign up for my free backtesting email course.
I hope to see you there!
47 min
May 19, 2025What to Prioritize
You've got a lot of ideas, each requiring a certain amount of work. How do you decide what trading ideas are likely to pan out?
Improving an existing strategy
Creating a new strategy
Related workflow tasks
The ICE Method
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Before you go!
The next time you find yourself in a drawdown, I want you to stop what you're doing and head on over to betterbacktesting.com to sign up for my free backtesting email course.
I hope to see you there!
49 min
May 12, 2025 Why Not Automate Your Trades?
We discuss the most common objections traders have to using automation and how to get over the hump.

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Before you go!
The next time you find yourself in a drawdown, I want you to stop what you're doing and head on over to betterbacktesting.com to sign up for my free backtesting email course.
I hope to see you there!
35 min
May 05, 2025Learning From Top Performers
A follow-up on our previous interview with Jared Tendler where we go deeper into:
the role of optimism in trading
poker and trading
learning from top performers in non-trading fields
A chart of earnings season:
https://www.davemabe.com/earnings-season/
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Before you go!
The next time you find yourself in a drawdown, I want you to stop what you're doing and head on over to betterbacktesting.com to sign up for my free backtesting email course.
I hope to see you there!
40 min
April 28, 2025Interview with Jared Tendler
This week, we interviewed Jared Tendler, a mental coach for traders, poker players, and golfers. Jared has written several books, including The Mental Game of Trading.
This was a wide-ranging interview where we discussed:
The mental side of systematic trading
How poker and trading are similar and different
What traders can learn from top performers in other fields
Find more info about Jared on his website: https://jaredtendler.com/
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Before you go!
The next time you find yourself in a drawdown, I want you to stop what you're doing and head on over to betterbacktesting.com to sign up for my free backtesting email course.
I hope to see you there!
58 min
April 21, 2025 Should You Turn Off Strategies On Crazy Days?
When the market is raging in a way that's far out of the ordinary, should you turn your strategies off? Or let it be business as usual? We discuss the things to consider.

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Before you go!
The next time you find yourself in a drawdown, I want you to stop what you're doing and head on over to betterbacktesting.com to sign up for my free backtesting email course.
I hope to see you there!
37 min