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Joe Marwood

May 29, 2022 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Contagion In Crypto

The success story of the innovative Terra ecosystem with stablecoin Terra USD (UST) and Terra LUNA coin came to an end recently. As of the time of writing, the Terra blockchain has been halted. The LUNA currency was worth over $100 in April 2022. The price collapsed to below $0.0002 in a matter of hours. The stablecoin […]

Filed Under: Crypto, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: crypto, trading systems

May 19, 2022 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Can You Predict Cryptocurrencies?

The Nobel price laureate physicist Niels Bohr once said, “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” This quote captures the reality in the markets rather accurately. Is Bitcoin breaking through the 50k mark this year? Or even the 100k mark? Will Ethereum outperform Solana between now and the end of the year? […]

Filed Under: Crypto, Strategies/ Systems, Trading Tagged With: crypto, trading systems

April 29, 2022 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Do Sell-Side Analysts Know Better?

Stock research reports play a significant role in many investors’ stock selection process. Some use them to get trading ideas, while others, including professional asset managers, include or exclude stocks according to buy/hold/sell ratings. Professional equity research is useful because you can only analyze so many stocks yourself. Condensed information in the form of equity […]

Filed Under: Investing, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: investing, stocks, strategies

April 19, 2022 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Using Fundamental Data To Improve Momentum Investing Strategies

If you are reading this blog you most likely already know about momentum investing strategies. In a nutshell, momentum traders buys past winners, often of the past 12 months, in the hope that these stocks continue to go up. There are several explanations to why momentum investing works. One is that investors buy past winners because […]

Filed Under: Investing, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: Momentum, stocks, trading systems

March 28, 2022 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

5 Economic Indicators That Matter To Investors

Recently, I grabbed a book from my library that had been standing there for the past 10 years. It’s called Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter. It’s one of the few books that describe concrete trading strategies that are still relevant. It’s also a great read to brush up on knowledge about economic […]

Filed Under: Investing, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: investing, stocks

March 16, 2022 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

How To Make Money In REITs

REIT stands for Real Estate Investment Trust. That’s a company that owns or operates income-generating real estate. REITs are exchange traded, so they can be bought and sold like other financial instruments such as stocks. An investor in a REIT can expect a regular dividend and exposure to the real estate market. In comparison to other […]

Filed Under: Investing, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: investing, reits, stocks

February 28, 2022 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Follow The Leader To Make Money In Stocks

There’s a reason that international traders, whether they’re in Tokyo, Singapore, or London, follow the US markets. The US is the hub of global finance. It’s on Wall Street where everything is happening. Watching the reaction of European markets to the opening of US markets demonstrates this. When the US market bell rings, there’s a […]

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February 14, 2022 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Can You Make Money From Short Seller Reports?

We collected 70 short-selling reports (since 2015) by two well-known short-sellers, Hindenburg Research and Muddy Waters Research. As our analysis shows, roughly 67 percent of the short recommendations actually traded lower a year later, and the short bets can make you money. What Is Short Selling? Going short a stock is selling it now, without really owning it, […]

Filed Under: Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: stocks, trading systems

January 24, 2022 By Joe Marwood 12 Comments

Should You Invest During An International Crisis?

In the 18th-century, Baron Rothschild allegedly said “buy when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own”. Most investors understand the idea of buying low and selling high, yet in reality, most do the opposite. How many bought the lows of the financial crisis 2008/09, at the time when Lehman Brothers […]

Filed Under: Investing, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: etfs, investing, strategies

January 10, 2022 By Joe Marwood 4 Comments

How To Copy The Best Hedge Funds

Recently we evaluated the reported holdings of institutional investors using data from Sharadar. (As a reminder, institutional investors in control of over $100 million are required to report their holdings to the SEC every quarter. This information is made public normally 45 days later in what are called 13F filings). Simple trading strategies that buy the most […]

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September 13, 2021 By Joe Marwood 2 Comments

Are We in a Stock Market Bubble? 5 Key Charts

As humans, we have an amazing ability to suspend disbelief. Imagine how many personal mistakes could be avoided if we took a step back and asked, “What is really happening here?” Right now, there’s a strong case to be made that the stock market is in bubble territory. Everyone knows it, but many choose to bury […]

Filed Under: Investing, Opinion, Stocks Tagged With: investing, stocks

August 30, 2021 By Joe Marwood 1 Comment

3 Simple Ways To Improve Your Trading Strategy

The worst traders are those that have no system. A trader I knew would make $40K in a month, then give it all back the next month. He was one hell of a trader but he had no method. He would have transformed his fortunes if he had simply stopped trading when his equity was […]

Filed Under: Lists, Stocks, Strategies/ Systems Tagged With: stocks, trading systems

August 23, 2021 By Joe Marwood 3 Comments

How To Build Professional Trading Strategies That Actually Make Money

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I became interested in quantitative trading after discovering Perry Kaufmann’s book Trading Systems and Methods. As a day trader, I struggled to control my emotions and needed a way to trade more intelligently. Kaufmann’s introductory book opened up my eyes to the prospect of turning my trading ideas into concrete rules. Rather than trading by […]

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August 18, 2021 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

What Trading Strategies Are Working In 2021?

2021 has been a rollercoaster of a year so far. It was only in January that rioters stormed the US capitol and Donald Trump found himself banned from Facebook and Twitter. Joe Biden was inaugurated on the 20th then we had the whole Gamestop saga. Gamestop rallied from under $20 to over $450 and Robinhood […]

Filed Under: Stocks, Strategies/ Systems, Update Tagged With: stocks, trading systems

May 24, 2021 By Joe Marwood 9 Comments

How To Build A Trend Following Trading Strategy

What Is Trend Following? If you look at a selection of charts, it becomes obvious that prices tend to move in particular directions – either up or down – for extended periods of time. Often, there’s no obvious reason why this is occurring but it is. These are trends, and successful traders generate significant profits […]

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May 11, 2021 By Joe Marwood 5 Comments

Easy Amibroker Tutorial – Learn Amibroker In Under An Hour

In this article the aim is to learn Amibroker in under a hour. This is not a complete Amibroker tutorial but it covers all the features I find most important for trading. If you want to learn how to use Amibroker then this is for you. If you’ve never head of it, Amibroker is a […]

Filed Under: Amibroker, How to, Strategies/ Systems, Top Posts Tagged With: amibroker, how to

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