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May 25, 2020 By Joe Marwood 2 Comments

5 Things You Learn From Backtesting Trading Strategies

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When people talk about backtesting their minds often turn to formulas and equity curves. Some may even be drawn to data mining or curve fitting, things that can go wrong. But backtesting is not just a way to test the profitability of a trading signal. In fact, backtesting has taught me many important lessons about […]

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March 19, 2019 By Joe Marwood 6 Comments

Top Slicing And Letting Your Winners Run

Watching a trade move swiftly into profit then reverse back can be a painful experience. Psychologically, these are the moments that can cause you to go on ‘tilt’ and abandon your trading plan altogether. When I first started trading I remember jumping on board fast trends in the FTSE only to see them wiped out […]

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November 21, 2018 By Joe Marwood 3 Comments

Why Professional Traders Don’t Use Stops

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There’s a lot of conflicting information on the web when it comes to stop losses. Recently I saw a YouTube video explaining that professional traders don’t use stop losses because doing so alerts market makers and algorithms to where their orders are. This is mostly nonsense especially in liquid markets with thick order books. The […]

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September 14, 2018 By Joe Marwood 3 Comments

New Figures Show 76% Of Traders Lose – How Not To Be One Of Them

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You’re probably aware of how difficult financial trading can be and how much luck plays a role in results. Latest figures from Finance Magnates show that in the year up to August 2017, 76% of CFD traders lost money. As shown by the graphic below, some brokers were better than others: But it gets worse. […]

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September 5, 2017 By Joe Marwood 4 Comments

56 Trading Tips

Hedge fund manager Ray Dalio says that every time he learns something new or makes a mistake in the markets he writes it down so that he can go over it later and learn from it. I’ve been doing something similar and it does help keep a record of things. Here’s a list of the […]

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