Trading System Concepts and Design


Trading models are created so that the so called human factor can be minimized. Most of the time, production trading models are utilized by firms like hedge funds and larger institutions. Retail traders having access to backtesting tools like TradeStation and other trading platforms can build their own trading systems easily but rarely do they successfully deploy any models to trade their own money.

Over the years I have helped many hedge funds and pro traders developing, refining and maintaining trading models. The sharp contrast between professionals and the retail traders in understanding what trading systems are driving me insane sometimes.

Here is a partial list of articles I have written on building trading system over the years. I have organized the material below into several sections so that it would be easier to find them. Whenever I can locate the rest of the articles I have written will add them here.


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The Extremely Uneven Distribution Behaviour In Emini S&P 500 Regular Trading Session

Following is a chart showing the net gains from long only models that trade only on a particular weekday. The results are very interesting. Notice the drastic difference in net gain for each weekday. I can guess that you have many questions in you ...

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The One Bearish Setup Everyone Must Know Daytrading Emini S&P  premium content

This trading setup is kind of complement pattern of the one presented in The One Bullish Setup Everyone Must Know Daytrading Emini S&P. It is short only, strictly day trade from open to close. It has been profitable all these years. Yet no one ev ...

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ES Bullish Price Driver. DaytradingBias.com
The One Bullish Setup Everyone Must Know Daytrading Emini S&P  premium content

If I am going to tell you that there is one simple day trading setup that works all these years you will probably think that I am kidding. What if I tell you that this setup is long only, strictly day trade from open to close? I must be joking, right ...

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The Real Secret of Trend in Day Trading: Finding the Point of No Return

We often hear traders talking about trend – trend is your friend, do not fight the trend, etc. Yet we seldom hear a room full of traders agree upon what the current trend is. This casual observation leads many people to believe price based analysis ...

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The TRIN Bearish Bias Play  premium content

TRIN bearish bias is different from its bullish bias for the same reason that bull market behaviour is different from bear market. Short term overbought condition in TRIN has more requirements than its counterpart. First, net gain from day trading t ...

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The TRIN Bullish Bias Play  premium content

TRIN is also called the Arms Index. It is often used as a swing term indicator. It can be used that way but it is a waste of the information provided by the index. First, net gain from day trading this TRIN bias.   The Setup [DTBMember] ...

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ES VIX Bearish Core Driver. DaytradingBias.com
The VIX Bearish Bias Play  premium content

The bearish property of VIX that no one talks about. If you need background information about the Volatility Index (VIX) please read The VIX Bullish Play. It has more background information about VIX that I do not want to repeat here. I am going to ...

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The VIX Bullish Bias Play  premium content

The Volatility Index from Chicago Board Option Exchange (VIX) is used to be a great tool for short term timing. It has many excellent properties that are useful for trading. Since the introduction of the VIX Future, however, many of these characteris ...

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Trading System 101 - Part 1

Before you can create a trading system that you can trade in real life, you need to understand a lot of basic things about trading system. If you are willing to spend some time understanding the basics, it will likely save you a lot of time and energ ...

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Trading System 101 - Part 3 Practical Considerations

Many traders spent weeks, even months to create their perfect trading models. Happy with the results they see in their backtesting, and tracked the real-time performance for certain period of time, they are ready to take the leap of faith to trade th ...

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