I was invited to lecture at Columbia University this week to talk with their students most interested in the markets. I have been guest lecturing at colleges since the start of our proprietary trading firm, ten years ago. While walking home to my apartment a few blocks south after this lecture, it struck me that so much has changed with … Read More
Take Your Back Test Into the Future
So you’ve developed or learned about a great strategy. You back tested it, tweaked the rules, and re-tested. Maybe the results are looking great – now what? All the information that you have is history. Is it reliable and repeatable in the real world? Here are few things that I do before running a strategy live. 1) Make sure the strategy works in … Read More
Forex Trading: The Bionic Forex Trader
Many struggling forex traders are in that position because they don’t realize one thing: the job of a professional trader is to isolate the least random market information and then take risks that are proportional to their trading capital. I say “least” random because a “non” random condition would mean that the particular setup would work 100% of the time. … Read More
Five Ideas for Your Trading Future
Dear Mike, My name is (deleted at e-mailer’s request) . I have written to you a couple of times over the past few years and have always found your advice helpful. You even were nice enough to give me a call a year or two ago after I had sent you an e-mail asking for advice. I am a fan … Read More