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This article reproduced with permission from Matt Blackman The hardest but also most important lesson to learn in trading is how to handle losses gracefully. Most traders will inevitably encounter a string of losses at some point, so those who can’t lose without being thrown off their game won’t survive […]
Perhaps because we offer several long-only systems we have often been asked if there is a difference in trading the long side of a market vs. trading the short side. I think most experienced futures traders would quickly agree that there are inherent differences between trading long versus trading short. […]
Overview Linear regression is a statistical tool used to predict future values from past values. In the case of security prices, it is commonly used to determine when prices are overextended. A Linear Regression trendline uses the least squares method to plot a straight line through prices so as to […]
This tutorial written and reproduced with permission from Peter Ponzo We assume that some set of variables, y1, y2, … yK, is dependent upon variables xk1, xk2, … xkn (for k = 1 to K). We assume the relationship betwen the ys and xs is “almost” linear, like so: [1] y1 = ß0 + ß1×11 + ß2×12 + … +ßnx1n + e1 y2 = ß0 + ß1×21 + ß2×22 + … +ßnx2n + e2 …….. yK = ß0 + ß1xK1 + ß2xK2 + … […]
This article reproduced with permission from Brett Steenbarger When people hear that I am an active trader and a professional psychologist, they naturally want to hear about techniques for mastering emotions in trading. That is an important topic to be sure, and later in this article I will even have […]