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Sharpe Ratio and Sortino Ratio Calculator for Day Trading Strategies
After I explained in the article, How to Calculate Sharpe Ratio and Sortino Ratio Correctly on Day Trading Strategies, many readers have asked for example on how to calculate the Sharpe Ratio themselves given that all platforms are not reporting the ...
After I explained in the article, How to Calculate Sharpe Ratio and Sortino Ratio Correctly on Day Trading Strategies, many readers have asked for example on how to calculate the Sharpe Ratio themselves given that all platforms are not reporting the ...
Setting Up Windows 10 for Serious Trading
After talking about Windows being ready for mission critical application last time, I guess it makes sense to explain what has to be done to turn a normal Windows 10 installation to something suitable for trading. There are several steps to carry out ...
After talking about Windows being ready for mission critical application last time, I guess it makes sense to explain what has to be done to turn a normal Windows 10 installation to something suitable for trading. There are several steps to carry out ...
Why Do Laurence Connors Market Breadth Trading Strategies Stopped Working?
The interest of using market breadth to time the markets can be attributed to one person, Laurence Connors, thanks to his influence book Investment Secrets of a Hedge Fund Manager. The book was published back in year 1995. The strategies explained in ...
The interest of using market breadth to time the markets can be attributed to one person, Laurence Connors, thanks to his influence book Investment Secrets of a Hedge Fund Manager. The book was published back in year 1995. The strategies explained in ...
Is Windows 10 Ready for Production Level Automated Day Trading?
Windows 10 was released back in year 2015. Back then it was new. It had many hardware incompatibilities and bugs that just crash without any warning. Windows 8 was a total write off. That leaves only Windows 7 as the viable option for traders to set ...
Windows 10 was released back in year 2015. Back then it was new. It had many hardware incompatibilities and bugs that just crash without any warning. Windows 8 was a total write off. That leaves only Windows 7 as the viable option for traders to set ...
A Comparison of Hardware Performance on TradeStation Optimization of a Mechanical Day Trading Strategy
In the process of reorganizing my computers for faster turnaround time, I ended up with Tradestation installed across three computers. The thought of comparing the optimization speed on these machines just popped up. So I jumped in getting that done. ...
In the process of reorganizing my computers for faster turnaround time, I ended up with Tradestation installed across three computers. The thought of comparing the optimization speed on these machines just popped up. So I jumped in getting that done. ...
What We Can Learn from a Simple Yet Robust Mechanical VIX Based Swing Trading Strategy 
Many traders love to know how to utilize various market breadth statistics to improve their trading. However, majority of the narratives out there are all guess work based on visual inspection and speculation on how a market breadth statistics can be ...

Many traders love to know how to utilize various market breadth statistics to improve their trading. However, majority of the narratives out there are all guess work based on visual inspection and speculation on how a market breadth statistics can be ...
How to Calculate Sharpe Ratio and Sortino Ratio Correctly on Day Trading Strategies
With all these trading platforms and trading strategy development tools available nowadays, you would think that the industrial standard metrics like Sharpe Ratio for measuring the performance of day trading strategies should all be built-in already. ...
With all these trading platforms and trading strategy development tools available nowadays, you would think that the industrial standard metrics like Sharpe Ratio for measuring the performance of day trading strategies should all be built-in already. ...
Defensive Money Management Explained: Better Position Sizing
Traders, discretionary and mechanical alike, are often puzzled on how to properly scale their trading with respect to their trading account size. Classic rule of 1% or 2% risk of investment capital just does not work because traders are here to take ...
Traders, discretionary and mechanical alike, are often puzzled on how to properly scale their trading with respect to their trading account size. Classic rule of 1% or 2% risk of investment capital just does not work because traders are here to take ...
Don’t Be a Day Trader If You Want to Make Money from Day Trading
The title sounds ridiculous right? Isn’t day trading makes you a day trader already?No. It all depends on how you conduct your day trading business – both as a full time business or a side gig to supplement your income.There is no fucking rule wr ...
The title sounds ridiculous right? Isn’t day trading makes you a day trader already?No. It all depends on how you conduct your day trading business – both as a full time business or a side gig to supplement your income.There is no fucking rule wr ...
Reading List from Famous Traders of Our Time
Before I put out my list of books to read on trading techniques and related topics, I like to share this list of books to read according to the famous traders of our time. I asked these famous traders the question several years ago and reported bac ...
Before I put out my list of books to read on trading techniques and related topics, I like to share this list of books to read according to the famous traders of our time. I asked these famous traders the question several years ago and reported bac ...
