Guest Appearance on the Trading Nut Podcast
By Dave Mabe
Cam from the Trading Nut podcast invited me on the show to discuss backtesting and how pivotal it is to systematic trading.
In the interview, I talk about:
Why my very first backtest beat my discretionary trading, and how humbling that was
The drawdown that almost made me quit, and what it taught me about needing more than one strategy
The mistake almost everyone makes when they backtest
How I went from about 350 trades one year to about 3,500 the next by "scaling wide" instead of just sizing up
Why US equities give you far more room to find an edge than forex or futures
The software and brokers I actually use (AmiBroker, RealTest, Trade Ideas, IBKR, DAS), and why I run everything on my own machine
How I work with SMB Capital traders to turn discretionary ideas into systematic strategies
How I use AI to write backtest code, including one simple trick that lets it check its own work, and the "cheerleader" trap to avoid
And much more...
-Dave
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