Posts Tagged ‘Drawdowns’
Buying dips, pullbacks, and reversals with mean reversion trading strategies
Do you like buying stocks that are breaking out to new highs? Would you rather shop for a bargain after a market sell-off? There’s no right or wrong answer, but there are important differences between the two approaches. The way we see it, every trading system can be labeled as one that either trades momentum…
Read MoreBrian Lund — Live episode sharing market analysis & answering your questions
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 19 Hello everybody, our guest today is Brian Lund, a fintech executive, investor, and writer with over 35 years of trading experience. Brian is the publisher of The Lund Loop, a weekly newsletter in which he writes about the intersection between markets, trading, and life. In this special live episode of Smarter…
Read MoreFrank Zorrilla — Tactically swing trading stocks for 1 to 10 day moves
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 12 Our guest today is Frank Zorrilla. Frank is the founder of Zor Capital, a registered investment advisory firm in New York. He started his career in 1997 and has been professionally managing money since 98. In this episode we get tactical discussing Frank’s short-term swing trading strategy. We talk about…
Read MoreCesar Alvarez — Building quantitative trading systems to trade the stock market
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 11 Our guest today is Cesar Alvarez. From 2004 to 2013, Cesar was the Director of Trading Strategies at TradingMarkets.com and Connors Research. Cesar has developed strategies for private equity funds, authored multiple books on trading, and was a Software Engineer on the early versions of Microsoft Excel. He is well…
Read MoreDavid Settle — Implied volatility is overrated – Options trading framework
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 8 Hello everybody, our guest today is David Settle. David started in the investor education world in 2004 with Investools. He’s coached hundreds of individuals on how to invest and trade the stock, options and forex markets and he currently holds a CMT designation. In this episode we dive into…
Read MoreAnne-Marie Baiynd — Patience, process, and placing trades on your own terms
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 4 Anne-Marie Baiynd joins us in Episode 4 of Smarter Trading to share her insights from nearly 20 years trading futures, stocks, and options. We discuss her dynamic strategy of analyzing the battle of supply and demand across multiple time-frames. We also get into techniques to avoid beating yourself up…
Read MoreLessons Learned Trading a Bear Market Part I: Coronavirus 2020
This is part one of a multi-part series documenting some of the events that have unfolded during the 2020 coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and the lessons and takeaways I’ve learned trading along the way. We start off with a little context of how we got to this point so that this article might prove useful years…
Read MoreHow to Develop Simple Swing Trading Strategies
How to Develop Simple Swing Trading Strategies lays the foundation for developing short- to intermediate-term overnight trading strategies. We’ll start off discussing what the goals of swing trading are and then move into some of the recommended steps to go about creating a strategy from scratch. There are no holy grails we’ll be uncovering, but…
Read MoreHow to Emerge From a Trading Drawdown
Trading can really suck sometimes. Especially during those times where everything you touch turns out to be wrong. Those dark periods are part of the business, and unfortunately, it’s just a matter of time before you find yourself in the next trading drawdown. Recently, I found myself in a very challenging environment. Choppy price action and quick shakeouts…
Read MoreHow to Emotionally Manage Winning and Losing Trades
How to emotionally manage winning and losing trades dives into the much less discussed, mental side of the equation around trade management. Your specific trading strategy is going to be a key determining factor in how you manage positions, but it’s your emotional state and internal dialogue, that will ultimately dictate whether or not you manage…
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