Blog - BeyondBacktesting

Oct 06

Sticky: Quantitative Collaborative- Building Futures Strategies for Today!

I have keyed on two critical concepts for trading: 1. Environment is paramount to success. Trading requires sustained effort.2. A real, quantitative, edge helps with preservation of psychological capital and helps refine, focus, and scale. Toward that, I am offering the Quantitative Collaborative workspace where I share my actual strategies, source code, graybox strategies, and […]

Jun 06

Sticky: A Better Recipe for Discretionary Traders

Graybox Trading , Trader's Mindset

I wanted to share how I am structuring my discretionary futures trading going forward. In a nutshell, I am shutting down or rather restructuring all of my discretionary futures trading into BeyondBots: Instead of day trading markets in real-time, instead day trade them in the simulator or very low risk micros. However, the core focus […]

May 23

Sticky: BeyondBot: Automated Discretionary Trading Solution

Graybox Trading , System Trading

A central question on my mind has been, how can I improve my discretionary trading with quantitative advantage while still retaining my discretionary advantage in reading the market? System trading can benefit from iterative improvement, can execute with greater consistency, benefits from execution speed, and is more efficient and can wait for the optimal setup, […]

Jan 02

Sticky: Beware the confidence illusion

Trader's Mindset

Good trading performance and past performance in general is overrated. A long time system vendor and big time promoter has offered several systems for subscription over the years. Every single system I have ever seen this vendor offer has crashed and burned badly. Now, this vendor has won trading competitions and even verified his real […]

Jan 01

Sticky: Get Healthy & Feel Great

Trader's Mindset

While not directly related to trading, I know that staying healthy is very important and that trading and other sedentary activities on the computer can lead to imbalance and poor health. While previously only sharing my favorite product purchases with family and friends, I recognized I could create value by sharing some of the very […]

Oct 05

What changed?

System Trading

Algorithmic systems are based on backtest. However, changes can impact the market such as when the market changed to trading in fractions to decimals. Recently we have had several changes that theoretically could impact any trading systems: Micro contracts were released by the CME for many popular products. Before the micros, small traders were forced […]

Oct 02

Doing Better

Trader's Mindset

On this blog, you will find a great amount of world class information, in my opinion, on trading. This is knowing. But, doing is what will ultimately determine our success or lack thereof. Imagine a trader crafts 5 trading systems, all pass his tests for qualifications with flying colors, and very generously 4 of the […]

Oct 01

8 Things You Can Do Right Now To Improve Your Trading

Trader's Mindset

Read the 8 steps below to find out how to improve your trading right now: Figure out and write down your setups. Really in my mind, a setup is not fully defined until, it can be automatically identified programmatically. Define what makes the setup an A+ vs an average setup, what type of conditions are […]

Oct 01

Trade-offs: Specialize vs Generalize

Trader's Mindset

There is a trade-off between “specialization” and “generalization” in markets. Greater specialization is likely to result in greater profit potential at the cost of robustness. On the other hand, greater generalization is likely to result in reduced profit potential with greater robustness. As an illustration as to why this is the case, let us imagine […]

Sep 26

Manually Working Orders With BeyondBot Assistance

Graybox Trading

You have programmed in your BeyondBot systems. BeyondBot is designed for automated execution. But, if you want to execute manually, for example to try averaging in or working orders on the DOM using an ATM, you can still take advantage of some benefits of the platform. It is easy– just set the strategy account to […]

Sep 24

What is the right motivation for trading?

Trader's Mindset

Now, on the one hand it is logical that one should only take a trade if they think they have positive expectancy. But, does that mean that the act of trading is about making money or that believing that the goal to make money to a greater degree makes success more or less likely? This […]

Sep 19

NT 8 SuperDom Tips & Tricks

Trader's Mindset

Turn on PnL Column in SuperDOM Some traders do not like to see their P&L during the day. Others prefer to track or think in “ticks” so they do not have any psychological impact when trying to scale up and that makes sense. However, I have always found it as a very functional tool when […]

Sep 14

If I Had Traded ES Bull Spread

Trader's Mindset

Recently, in my post The Real Reason You Move Your Stop I mentioned that,” I opened a risk limited 2-day call spread on the ES 2980-2990“. First keep in mind, I am not a professional, do not provide financial advice, never make any performance claims whatsoever, and do not provide recommendations. Keep in mind, the trade […]

Sep 14

If I Had Traded E-Micros

Trader's Mindset

First keep in mind, I am not a professional, do not provide financial advice, never make any performance claims whatsoever, and do not provide buy/sell recommendations. One consideration is whether or not it is possible to make “anything” trading e-micros because of the small size and the commissions. The e-micro is 1/10th size the e-mini. […]

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