TuringTrader’s Felix Bertram joins us in Episode 3 of Smarter Trading to share his quantitative approach to investing in the stock market.
We discuss why he decided to build a backtesting engine from scratch, the importance of tools and rich reports for traders to truly understand how they’re doing, ingredients to profitable momentum trading systems, and a whole lot more. Please enjoy this episode!
Traders need comprehensive reports and tools in order to measure and improve their strategiesIt’s important to consider how efficient your allocating your trading capitalMarkets like to throw surprises that you can’t possibly account for ahead of timeRunning a meta-portfolio of separate strategies reduces the chances all strategies fail at the same timeFocus on one simple market concept at a time without making it too complicatedMarkets are not as efficient as people make them out to beBacktesting strategies unlocks insights that would take a discretionary trader decades to learnTips on getting started to code and testing trading strategiesAlways compare a strategy performance versus a benchmarkLearn more & connect with Felix
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Browse the Smarter Trading podcast catalog for this episode's show notes and check out past guestsWatch this episode live on our YouTube channelFollow @evanmedeiros on TwitterFollow @TheTradeRisk on TwitterJoin the Trade Risk's weekly newsletter0:00 Introduction1:35 Felix’s background4:05 Felix realizes professional money managers weren’t doing that great6:40 How Felix begins investing his own money: breakout strategies10:30 Felix realizes he needs better reports and more metrics to improve his trading13:35 TuringTrader project is born, a new open source market simulator19:00 Felix’s book recommendations that influenced the next phase of his investing25:40 The benefits of having multiple systems instead of just 1 system32:32 The dangers and risks of backtesting37:20 The benefits of backtesting and quantitative trading 42:30 Do you need to understand why a strategy works?44:50 Base requirements needed to trade a new strategy47:00 What it means to trade successfully51:00 About the TuringTrader projectIf you enjoyed this week's episode, we would really appreciate a rating and review on Apple Podcasts so that we can reach more traders and bring on more great guests.
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