Posts Tagged ‘Trading Automation’
How to use BasketTrader by Interactive Brokers for swing trading
In this article, we’re going to be breaking down the BasketTrader tool from Interactive Brokers. We’ll cover exactly why it’s useful for traders, how we personally use it with our Trading Systems, and give you a step-by-step walkthrough on how to build your very own basket file.
Read MoreThe Importance of Following a Rules-based Trading Framework
We at the Trade Risk are big believers in rules-based investing. Everything we do — from the way we analyze markets; build scans, trading tools, and quantitative systems — are all based on having rules. Throughout this article we’re going to make the case for why that’s so important and why you, too, should be…
Read MoreTuringTrader’s Felix Bertram — An engineer’s approach to investing in the stock market
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 3 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…
Read MoreSuri Duddella — Mastering stock market chart patterns
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 2 Suri Duddella joins us in Episode 2 of Smarter Trading to share his knowledge about stock market chart patterns and how he uses automation to find the best available setups. We discuss the dangers traders can run into of self-identifying chart patterns without the proper understanding of their structure and…
Read MoreHow to Maximize Your Screen Time Adjusted Returns
Chances are you’ve heard of the concept of risk-adjusted returns. If you haven’t, it basically means that a strategy’s returns should be measured relative to the risk taken to achieve them. There’s a handful of ways to grade the efficiency of trading systems in this category such as Sharpe, Sortino, MAR, Ulcer index, and the…
Read MoreChart Pattern Trading Advice from a 20+ Year Professional
Chart pattern trading falls under the category of technical analysis and represents one of the most popular approaches to making buy and sell decisions using charts. We as humans love forming patterns in all areas of our lives and analyzing price charts is no different. I don’t personally consider myself a chart pattern trader, but…
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