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Podcast: Better System Trader
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003: Cesar Alvarez on trading ideas, backtesting, stops and market timing

Category: Business
Duration: 00:54:48
Publish Date: 2015-04-19 15:08:07
Description:

In our chat with Cesar Alvarez we talk about trading ideas, key concepts and pitfalls of backtesting, the impact of stops on returns, market timing, over-optimisation, drawdown and using multiple strategies in a portfolio. Topics discussed:

  • Where to find trading ideas
  • Why you should test all of your ideas, even if you think they won't work
  • Pitfalls of backtesting you need to look out for
  • How to identify coding errors in backtesting
  • Some clues that indicate you may have over-optimised a strategy
  • Issues with splitting data into in-sample and out-of-sample portions
  • The impact of stops on returns
  • Handling a 50% overnight drop in a stock price
  • Finding your personal drawdown tolerance
  • How market timing can impact a strategy
  • Why you need multiple strategies in a portfolio
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