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July 29, 2020 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

13 Reasons You Should Learn The Amibroker CBT

This week we published another new course to Marwood Research called Amibroker CBT Intensive which teaches you how to use the Amibroker custom backtester (CBT). The Amibroker CBT can be difficult to grasp at first but it offers the ability to take complete control of the backtesting process, creating your very own backtesting environment. This […]

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April 25, 2020 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Q1 Portfolio Update For ZTM

In February of last year I started a project called Zero To One Million. The goal was to show that anyone can go from zero to one million dollars by investing a regular amount into one or two quality stocks each month. It was also to prove that stock picking is possible and you don’t […]

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November 5, 2018 By Joe Marwood 1 Comment

The Week In Review – 11/2/18

neo trade week in review

This post is a round up of trades and thoughts taken for the week ending on 2nd November 2018. Monday. Have got a position in NTWK that went up nicely today and on solid volume. I have had this trade on for a few days now and will continue to hold it on this kind […]

Filed Under: Stocks, Strategies/ Systems, Update Tagged With: update, week in review

September 24, 2017 By Joe Marwood

Lack Of Direction But No Lack Of Profit – Our Trading System Performance In August

profitable trade in VNQ.

The month of August was characterized by a lack of direction across many of the major stock market indices. Despite any notable trend, several of our premium trading strategies were able to profit and put in a solid month of results.

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

August 14, 2017 By Joe Marwood

Trading System Highlights – July 2017

Global stock markets started the month of July on the back foot following a Federal Reserve rate increase in June and some mixed economic signals. However, by the end of the month equity markets were back to their all-time highs and the bull market in US equities continued. This came as US growth figures showed […]

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July 28, 2017 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Trading For Yield – New Swing Trading System On Marwood Research

Trading for yield System equity curve

Longer term readers and members will know that I try to keep Marwood Research updated with new trading strategies and information on a monthly basis. This month we have added a brand new trading strategy to the program called Trading For Yield.

Filed Under: Amibroker, Strategies/ Systems, Update Tagged With: strategies, trading systems

July 4, 2017 By Joe Marwood 2 Comments

No, This Market Is Not Confusing

the persistence method in weather

Last week I received an email courtesy of the StockTwits newsletter with the headline ‘This Market Is Confusing Everyone’. Apparently, because the market has fallen, gone up, and then fallen again (in the space of a few days) investors are totally confused and the market is ‘faking out everyone’. Unfortunately for the headline writer, this […]

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June 28, 2017 By Joe Marwood 2 Comments

Course Update: ETF Pullbacks

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I have just included a new trading system called ETF Pullbacks for the course Hedge Fund Trading Systems Part Two. This is a very simple mean reversion system with a high win rate of over 70% and an average trade duration of 7 days.

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March 22, 2017 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Have We Finally Seen The Top In Stocks?

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Tuesday morning I sent out a tweet to say that we may have seen a top in the stock market. Today, the S&P 500 has just closed down by 1.20%, it’s biggest fall in over 100 days.

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February 20, 2017 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Using Norgate Data Updater (NDU) – The New Platform

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Update 6/6/2018 Norgate Data latest version has now been officially released. This includes the NDU software and historical constituents databases. This is a great service that I use for all my backtesting in Amibroker. More details are available at the Norgate Data website. —-

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November 10, 2016 By Joe Marwood 2 Comments

A Shocking Response From Financial Markets

Yesterday’s US election result came as a shock to many people and I’m sure you will have strong feelings about it too. Many observers took to social media to report their surprise and despair at the result.

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June 23, 2016 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Brexit: Landslide Victory For Remain Camp?

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In a few hours time we will see the United Kingdom head to the polls to decide whether or not to stay in the European Union. This long-awaited event has dominated the financial news for the last several weeks and drawn opinion from all over the world.

Filed Under: Ideas, Opinion, Update Tagged With: brexit, opinion

October 30, 2015 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

Interest Rate Hikes Are Bearish For Stocks, Right?

interest rates vs stock market chart

The Federal Reserve kept interest rates at near-zero on Wednesday once again. Rates have remained at record zero levels for the last seven years. This was the official line from the Federal Reserve press office:

Filed Under: Economy, Update Tagged With: economy, Federal Reserve

September 18, 2015 By Joe Marwood 1 Comment

Janet Yellen Does It Again : Dollar Drops

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As I predicted on Monday, the Federal Reserve kept interest rates on hold yesterday and this saw the US dollar drop against most of its major trading partners. The central bank cited low inflation and uncertainty abroad as the main reason to keep rates on hold and this has pushed market expectations for the first […]

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September 14, 2015 By Joe Marwood Leave a Comment

An Important Week For Markets

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Stock markets finished higher last week with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up just over 100 points and the benchmark indexes climbing around 2% in what was a shortened week thanks to the public holiday. This was one of the best weekly performances since March.

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Joe Marwood is an independent trader and investor specialising in financial market analysis and trading systems. He worked as a professional futures trader for a trading firm in London and has a passion for building mechanical trading strategies. He has been in the market since 2008 and working with Amibroker since 2011.

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