Hi Mike, I was part of the first edition of SMB DNA and I am a consistently profitable trader now. I just read your article about the low float reversal trade. It is also a favorite trade of mine. The difficulty I sometimes have with these plays is to get borrows to short the stock. (I have one IB account … 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
A Quant Test on a Trading Thesis
Hi Mike, I was halfway through typing my question when I remembered a blog post similar to my original question: http://www.smbtraining.com/blog/how-do-you-determine-how-far-stock-can-move I was wondering if you’ve found any statistical information by back-testing the above since then. For me personally, I first find important support/resistance levels on a stock & after that do I then consider the likelihood of those support/resistance … Read More