Looking Into The Future
A trader recently approached me with a backtest that he thought had the potential to be more profitable…
Strategy Drift
What is Strategy Drift? I learned it the hard way when I realized my strategy wasn’t quite as…
A Bad Backtest
Thomas Edison failed 10,000 times before he invented a light bulb that would work. How many times have…
Prioritizing Your Trading Work
Successful trading requires a lot of work, including improving existing strategies, reviewing performance, adding new strategies, etc. Given…
Handling Blank Values
Fellow reader and longtime trader Justin Flynn wrote me recently (shared with permission): Is there an option of…
Keeping Track of Your Trading Ideas
In this week’s Line Your Own Pockets episode, we discuss keeping track of trading ideas. Traders must have a…
Win Rate
Think of the strategy you’re trading now. Is it in a drawdown? Is it crushing it? Either way,…
A Process for Generating Ideas
In this week’s Line Your Own Pockets episode, the topic is generating ideas for trading strategies. Great traders aren’t…
Your Trading Business
You’re probably aware of the well-known statistic that the majority of small businesses fail within 10 years. But…
To Paper Trade or Not to Paper Trade…
In this week’s Line Your Own Pockets episode, we discuss paper trading – a topic where there’s surprising disagreement…