Category: Trading System

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Momentum Investing – An Experiment with Real Money

 “We’re too soon old and too late smart.” For nearly a month now, I have been wondering if it made sense to make a post of the trails and tribulations of my one year journey with momentum investing. The idea here is not to sell you a product or a service but to provide you with an insight that is...

Look Ahead Bias and its Impact on Trading Results 0

Look Ahead Bias and its Impact on Trading Results

As most system traders, my mind is constantly thinking of ideas that I think can help me beat the markets comprehensively without too much of a effort (no day trading types for example). So, today as I was doing what people do in bathrooms (having a bath), I suddenly had this idea for a new test – it wasn’t really...

Does Golden Cross Work 2

Does Golden Cross Work

Friend, Nooresh Merani uploaded a video (Youtube Link) where in he literally questions using Golden Cross as a trading / investing tool. While I see loads of skeptics who believe Technical Analysis is Bullshit, I found it disappointing that Nooresh does this since he is a expert in Technical Analysis and runs courses and sells newsletters based on application of Technical...

Using Open Interest To Find Bull/Bear Signals 0

Using Open Interest To Find Bull/Bear Signals

In markets, its the dream of every trader to find a anomaly that can be juiced out day in and day out. Big traders / funds keep trying to find such inefficiencies that they can exploit to their advantage. Those inefficiencies are never heard in the public domain since if everyone knows about it, its sure to be arbitraged away....

Buying the Low’s 0

Buying the Low’s

On Twitter, Alokesh Phukan asked me a query on the difference in returns between buying at the high of the year every year vs buying at the low of the year . Not sure if this study holds for our volatile mkts @Prashanth_Krish can find out l guess;) #PeterLynch #MarketTiming pic.twitter.com/tGr1Cs8rCi — Alokesh Phukan (@greyfool) March 16, 2016 Now, who...

Keeping up with the Joneses 0

Keeping up with the Joneses

The last couple of years has been fabulous for a large variety of shares. While good shares (large cap) have appreciated a bit, it really has been the season of small caps with many of them showcasing (at their peaks), returns in excess of 1000%, this when the larger market had really gone anywhere. Most investors are rational and know...

Inactive Intraday Trading 5

Inactive Intraday Trading

In the book, Trading in the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes: Balancing Probabilities for Successful Investing, Dr. Anthony Trongone defines Inactive Intraday Trading as some one who is not actively following the market but trades when it works best according to the system or fits within one’s specified trading schedule. When I tell people that I am a full time trader,...