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Bio

Dave Mabe is a former fintech CTO, long-time systematic trader, and online educator. He is the founder of MabeKit, the #1 strategy optimizer and automation tool for systematic traders, and the host of the Line Your Own Pockets podcast.

Dave helps day traders make more money from their strategies by implementing a proven process to turn trading ideas into tested, automated models. He is on a mission to convert 10,000 traders from hobbyists into full-timers.

Unlike most trading advisors, Dave is first and foremost a trader and has managed a portfolio of 25+ automated strategies for decades.

Speaking Topics

Dave speaks on the intersection of systematic trading, backtesting, and AI-assisted strategy development. Popular topics include:

• How to Finally Start Backtesting the Right Way — The mistakes traders make when they first try to validate a strategy, and the step-by-step process that actually works.

• Why Automating Your Trading Strategy Is So Powerful — How automation removes emotion, enforces discipline, and lets traders scale beyond what's possible manually.

• Why You Should Worry Less About Curve Fitting — The most common fear in backtesting, what it actually means, and practical techniques to avoid it without becoming paralyzed.

• What AI Gets Right (and Wrong) About Trading — Where LLMs and AI tools genuinely add value for active traders, and where they create a dangerous illusion of progress.

• The Shift from Discretionary to Systematic Trading — Why experienced traders eventually move toward rules-based systems, and how to make that transition carefully.

• Building a Portfolio of Automated Strategies — How Dave manages 25+ live strategies simultaneously and what he's learned about diversification, correlation, and risk.

Selected Media Appearances

Interviews

• Where AI Adds the Most Value for Active Traders - Schwab Network's Trading 360

• Interview with Dave - SMB Capital Podcast

• The Shift to Systematic Trading - Chat with Traders

• Interview on Creating Profitable Strategies - Interactive Brokers Podcast

• The Pro Quant Playbook: Finding, Testing & Automating Trading Edges - Friendly Bear Podcast

• Why I Trade 25 Strategies - Desire to Trade Podcast

• Automating My Way to Financial Freedom - Quant Room Podcast

• How a Pro Quant Finds, Tests, and Automates Trading Edges - Investor's Underground

Webinars (SMB Capital - Bionic Trader Series)

• The Most Common Mistakes Traders Make and How to Avoid Them

• Creating Strategies from your Missed Trades

• Slippage - How to Minimize It

• All About Slippage

• 5 Rules for Using LLMs for Backtesting

• Turning Points in my Trading Career

• Avoiding Curve Fitting

• Backtesting Platforms Worth Considering

Webinars (Interactive Brokers)

• Create Your Own Trading Strategy with Backtesting and AI

• How to Avoid Curve Fitting in a Trading Strategy

• Use LLMs to Create a Trading Strategy Without Going in Circles

• Create Your Own Trading Strategy Without Curve Fitting

• Choosing the Right Backtesting Platform for Your Trading

• How I Scaled My Trading Strategy Using the IBKR API

• Create Your Own Trading Strategy That Works

Articles

• You're Probably Backtesting Wrong - IBKR Quant News

• How to Identify False Breakouts or Breakdowns? - Strategy Corner - Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities (TASC)

• Prevent Trading with Emotion - Strategy Corner - TASC

• The Best Way to Improve Your Trading - Strategy Corner - TASC

• The Smart Way to Scale Up a Strategy - Strategy Corner - TASC

• You Missed a Trade - Now What? - Strategy Corner - TASC

More From Dave

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• Learn more about MabeKit.

For media inquiries, interview requests, or speaking engagements, please contact Dave directly.