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Category: Systems Trading
- August 26, 2006Bill Eckhardt’s Timeless Money Management Wisdom
A good piece of wisdom from Bill Eckhardt: “If you make a bad trade, you have money management, you have a whole bunch of things that will come to your aid, and…
- August 3, 2005Ed Seykota on Backtesting
“Back testing can help you experiment with various methods for trend identification and risk management until you find some combinations that suit your temperament. Any back testing you do, and any subsequent…
- July 20, 2005Limit Parameter Control
From CSI’s Technical Journal: “Every process you consider [in a trading system] requires some level of decision-making control to force a market profit. Your trading algorithm should have at least one trigger…
- July 3, 2005Ed Seykota on Testing Trading Systems
Ed Seykota was recently asked: “I’ve got Excel on my computer…is it possible to make a good trading system on Excel or do I need to purchase…[a] sophisticated software program?” Seykota Answered:…