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Multiple Timeframe Backtesting – A Quick Robustness Test
Multiple timeframe backtesting can be a valuable addition to your strategy development workflow. Here I explain why you should do it, and how to conveniently do it in MT4 and StrategyQuant.
How to Find a Real Trading Guru
Every day I come across a trading guru offering educational content on the internet. Many of them speak of huge returns with minimal effort. Should these be trusted? Here’s some tips on how to separate the wheat from the chaff.
How to Enjoy Stress-Free Trading
Trading is a great way to make some additional income, but not if you’re constantly pulling your hair out. Here I offer 7 tips to help make your trading profitable and stress-free.
How to Get a Realistic Backtest Spread
Your choice of backtest spread can certainly make or break a strategy. This post will show you how to study the intraday spread variations of your market, and suggest several ways to avoid paying ridiculous spreads.
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Risk of ruin is a useful metric to help develop trading strategies that suit your risk appetite. This post explains how to calculate your risk of ruin, and how to use it to improve your trading!
Ride Breakouts With This Support & Resistance Indicator!
StrategyQuant offers a support & resistance ranking indicator to help detect upcoming breakouts. Use it to program an automated USDJPY strategy!
Automated MACD Divergence Forex Trading Strategy
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Inside bars can be a valuable predictor of trend continuation. Here’s how you can program an inside bar, and use it to improve your trend following strategy!
Laguerre RSI Trend Following Strategy
The Laguerre RSI attempts to improve the responsiveness of the regular RSI, whilst keeping whipsaw trades to a minimum. Let’s see how well it detects short-term pullbacks for a trend following strategy!
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Your strategy’s optimization profile often reveals its robustness, helping you select strategies that will remain profitable in live trading. Here I explain why an optimization profile is important, and how you can easily obtain one using StrategyQuant’s optimizer.
How to Use the Supertrend Indicator
Despite its cool name, the Supertrend indicator often seems to slip under the radar. Here I explain how it’s calculated, and combine it with moving averages to produce a simple trend following strategy.
How to Select the Best Forex VPS
A virtual private server (VPS) is a virtual computer that you can rent and access remotely. It provides a reliable platform on which to execute your forex strategies. This post will help you decide whether you need a VPS, and show you how to select an optimal VPS.
Which MT4 Backtest Report Metrics Should You Use?
Understanding your backtest report is an essential part of being a successful strategy developer. Here I explain what the numbers mean, and how you can make use of each metric during strategy development.
Out-of-sample Testing Using Monte Carlo Simulations
Traders often use Monte Carlo simulations to estimate worst-case drawdowns, but did you know they can be used for out-of-sample testing too? This post demonstrates the use of StrategyQuant’s Monte Carlo simulator to randomize historical prices and strategy parameters, helping you select robust strategies for live trading.
Hey there, Wayne here! I’m on a mission to develop robust algorithmic trading strategies for the forex markets. Trading Tact is where I share my trading methods and insights.
