Losing is, unfortunately, a natural part of trading, and most of us don’t want to lose. But sooner or later the inevitable losing streak happens with many losers and your capital suffers. In trading this is called a drawdown. We have conducted plenty of reader polls, and you find them all in our article about…
In trading, you need a positive expectancy, and you might want to use leverage to utilize that edge. However, the balance between greed and fear is always a thin line. If you lose most or all of your capital, it’s very tough to fight back. We asked: Should you use leverage in trading? Our reader…
It’s easy and tempting to start fiddling with a trading strategy to “improve” it. We write “” because it’s easy to get trapped in a vicious circle of curve fitting if you start practicing adjusting and reviewing your trading strategy too often. We asked our followers on Twitter the following: How often do you review…
The best asset offers the best trading opportunities when it has a high degree of volatility, liquidity, and transparency. Volatility is the measure of how much the price of an asset moves up and down over time. Liquidity is the measure of how easily an asset can be bought and sold. Transparency is the measure…
This website is all about backtesting, and indirectly about algorithmic and automatic trading. In order to do both, you need a reliable trading platform. On Twitter, we asked traders: which trading platform do traders use? We have conducted plenty of reader polls, and you find them all in our article about trading statistics, truths, realities,…
Because backtesting is the cornerstone of this website, we occasionally make a poll among our Twitter readers. Choosing the right asset class for trading plays a significant role in shaping trading strategies, risk, and profits. To get better insight into the preferences of traders on social media, we ran a recent poll. We asked: Which…
Backtesting is the cornerstone of this website. We aim to quantify everything about the stock market, hence the name. We have conducted plenty of reader polls, and you find them all in our article about trading strategies statistics, truths, realities, and facts. We made a poll on Twitter recently. We asked the following questions for…
A recent Twitter poll on our Twitter profile shed light on the challenges traders face, with an astonishing 50% of respondents citing “Finding good strategies” as their biggest hurdle. Here’s the result: We’ll be honest: beforehand, we were pretty sure dealing with losses would be the biggest trading challenge. But we were wrong, and it…
We believe backtesting is crucial to have consistent success in trading. It makes you disciplined because it forces you to write down specific trading rules. This way, you can see if your strategy has a positive expectancy. We suspect most traders don’t have a positive expectancy because they use anecdotal evidence and focus more on…
