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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Testing Turnaround Tuesday
After a big move on a Monday you will often hear traders talk about turnaround Tuesday. The concept is very simple. When markets start the week in a big way, they will often settle down on Tuesday and put in a decent reversal. Looking at the data, we find that there is a small edge […]
How To Automate Your Trading With Amibroker
Long time users of Amibroker will know that it’s an excellent software for backtesting, scanning and many other tasks. However, automation of trading strategies is not one of it’s strengths. Fortunately there’s a new and simple solution which I discovered in a new class called Trading And Investing Automation For Amibroker. This solution involves linking […]
Should You Combine Trading Strategies?
The general advice with trading systems is that you should try to combine multiple trading strategies together in order to get the benefit of diversification. Having a suite of profitable trading algorithms means that you can obtain a smoother drawdown and reduce your chance of having a losing day, week, month, year. However, is it […]
Testing 3 Divergence Trading Strategies On Stocks
A reader asked about trading divergence so I thought I would look into it. Searching the web I found many articles that claim divergence trading is an effective way to trade stocks. However, there is very little empirical evidence provided. In this article we test several different divergence strategies and we compare our results to […]
How To 10x Your Momentum Returns
The backbone of personal finance is to save more than you spend and invest the proceeds. The most common advice is to put your money into cheap index funds each month with a simple allocation split. But what if you want to try something more adventurous? Index investing may only provide returns of six or […]
Simple Volatility Strategy For VXX
I’ve spent the weekend looking into volatility and I stumbled upon a simple but effective volatility strategy. The idea is to go long the VXX ETF when volatility is rising and go short the ETF when volatility is falling. This is the opposite to the usual approach which is to short volatility on sharp rallies. […]
Market Meanness Index For Amibroker
The Market Meanness Index is a technical indicator developed by JCL from the Financial Hacker website. In this article we will describe what the indicator is designed to do and provide some code for Amibroker users. MMI is a statistical algorithm based on the median value of a price series. It’s purpose is to help […]
Using This Sector Filter Improves Net Profit By 50%
Old school trading wisdom says you should not only buy the strongest stocks but the strongest stocks in the strongest sectors. In this article, I discuss a simple breakout system. Then I introduce a basic sector filter which improves our net profit by around 50%. Full Amibroker code is also provided.
Three Trading Strategies Put To The Test
If you want to put your money in the stock market it makes sense to first analyse the data to see whether your trading strategy is a good one or not. In this article I take a look at three technical trading strategies and see how successful they’ve been over the past 10-18 years.
