Tag Archives: performance

Seasonals Trading System Performance Q1 2011

As promised, here’s a look at the performance of the trading system I’ve been running based on …

Some Numbers on Stock Market Earnings Reactions

I’m reading a book on trading based on company earnings announcements at the moment. I’ll post a …

Comparing Your Trading to the Alternatives

I wrote the original version of this for the Currensee blog, but it has a broad based focus, …

Retail Forex Trader Profitability and the Death of US Forex Trading

I initially wrote this for the Currensee blog on October 18th. I’m cross posting it here because …

Trader Performance May Not Be as Bad as They Say

Here’s an interesting forex broker table posted at Forex Magnates. It lays out the % of profitable …

Taking Your Trading to the Next Level

A really interesting question came in overnight from a trader who is still relatively new to it …

Trading System Testing and Risk Management with Multiple Securities

A reader of my book sent me a question that combines system design and testing issues with …

Trading Services Performance Records and Refund Policies

Here’s a question that came up over the weekend. Why do so many Live Trading Services not have …

Is it unreasonable to expect that rate of return in my trading?

A reader by the name of Kevin brings up a question that I know a lot of …

Can I make X each day/week/month in the markets?

I received the following question yesterday: I am looking for a way to make small amounts of …

You want to know what kind of returns you can make?

I saw that question again – “How much can I make….?” There are numerous variations on it, …

What are your trading expectations?

One of the more common questions you can see on any trading forum relates to profitability and …

Taking a closer look at trading system win rate

Yesterday I wrote about the three elements needed to assess and compare trading systems (Thoughts on Trading System …

Thoughts on Trading System Performance

I was recently alerted to some commentary on trading system design and backtesting. That grabbed my attention …