All Episodes
Better System Trader — 242 episodes
241: Trading Market Phases - with Mish Schneider
240: "Uncovering hidden market reaction zones" - with Fabio Ruggeri
239: Confident Consistent Trading - Laurens Bensdorp
238: The new indicator that improves momentum trading signals - Alex Spiroglou
237: New Volatility Based Trading Techniques with Rob Hanna
236: How to Profit and Protect in Any Market Conditions - with Tom Basso
235: How traders can compete in the markets and find profitable edges - Jason Strimpel
234: The Trading Panel – Episode 11
233: The Trading Panel – Episode 10
232: The Trading Panel – Episode 9
231: The Trading Panel – Episode 8
230: The Trading Panel – Episode 7
229: The Trading Panel – Episode 6
228: The Trading Panel – Episode 5
227: The Trading Panel – Episode 4
226: The Trading Panel – Episode 3
225: Algorithmic Crypto Trading - Pavel Kycek
224: "The Trading Panel" Episode 2
223: "The Trading Panel" Episode 1
222: Surviving Uncertain Markets - Richard Brennan
221: Bad trades, shorting disasters and just get out!
220: 3 Biggest Lessons From Tennis Pro to Trading Pro
219: 3 Biggest Lessons from Chart Trader to Algo Hedge Fund Manager
218: Trading Triumphs - Jerry Parker #3: The Dangers of Optimization
217: Trading Triumphs - Jerry Parker #2: Excessive Risk
216: Trading Triumphs - Jerry Parker #1: Fear of Executing Trades
215: Trading Triumphs: Kevin Davey's Journey To Success Part 3
214: Trading Triumphs: Kevin Davey's Journey To Success Part 2
213: Trading Triumphs: Kevin Davey's Journey To Success Part 1
212: Trading Triumphs - Brent Penfold's Journey to Success
211: Trading Triumphs: The Journey to Success with Adrian Reid
How do successful traders make better decisions?
Using "Big Picture" Analysis to Guide Trading Decisions - Brent Penfold
Indicators vs Price Action - Which is King?
207: Preparing for a new trading year
206: "Systematic Crypto" – Adrian Reid
205: "Simple strategies, stable results." – David Stendahl
204: "How to leverage market biases to improve strategy performance" – Lawrence Chan
203: "Going against the crowd - a contrarian approach to trading profits." – Jason Shapiro
202: "Buying pullbacks, avoiding bear markets" – Larry Tentarelli
201: "Getting serious about part-time trading" – Kris Longmore
200: "Using market noise to improve strategies" – Martyn Tinsley
199: "Trading statistical edges in crypto" – Brian Blandin
198: "3 ways to improve trading models" – Curtis White
197: "How to use volatility to outperform the market" – Kyle Schultz
196: "How to avoid curve fitting using independent testing" – Jeff Swanson
195: "Low-effort Trading Strategies" – Cesar Alvarez
194: "How to improve trend following performance" – David Lundgren
193: "Innovation as a trading edge" – Dr Brett Steenbarger
192: "Predicting profitability using machine learning" – Ernie Chan
191: Combining Algos using State-Based Market Design – Richard Metzger
190: Performing like a world champion even under stress and uncertainty – Mandi Pour Rafsendjani
189: Managing multiple trading strategies – David Bean
188: "Why trading can be so challenging (and what to do about it)" – Adam Grimes
187: "How to spot a trading scam" – Kevin Davey
186: "Breaking the rules for higher returns" – Scott Welsh
185: How to avoid creating trading strategies that degrade quickly - Timothy Masters
184: Increasing returns using "Performance Qualifiers" – Tomas Nesnidal
183: Overcoming Broken Strategies – Marsten Parker
182: How to identify high probability markets - David Steets
181: Short-term Swing Trading Techniques – Ivanhoff
180: 3 ways traders kill trading strategies (and how to avoid them) – Rob Carver
179: Effective techniques to identify trends – Doc Ahrens
178: How to build Mean Reversion trading strategies – Stefan Friedrichowski
177: Superior returns from superior risk management – Laurent Bernut
176: Dealing with market uncertainty and lessons of 2020 - Michael Grech
175: 3 under-utilized techniques to build dramatically better trading strategies – Brian Miller
174 : How to find statistical edges to improve your trading – Scott Andrews
173: Trend Trading Tactics – Brent Penfold
172: The Magic of Momentum Trading – Alan Clement
171: How to survive market sell-offs – Perry Kaufman
170: How to detect when a trading strategy is failing – Kevin Davey
169: Will AI replace the human trader – Bob Pardo
168: How to optimize strategies for robustness (properly) – John Ehlers
167: Improve trading performance by being a flexible trader – Steve Ward
166: Consistent Equity Growth using Diversification – Nick Radge
165: Effective Market Regime Techniques - Cesar Alvarez
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164: Performance Accelerators - Steve Ward
163: The Laws of Trading - Agustin Lebron
162: Building effective entries and exits - Kevin Davey
161: Improving performance with strategies that manage strategies - David Bean
160: How to achieve long-term trading success - Linda Raschke
159: Maximising the potential of portfolios - Adam Butler
158: Bull, Bear or Correction? Reading the signs - Troy Bombardia
157: Assumptions, Probabilities and Diversification with Michael Grech
156 - Where is technology taking us? - Dr Tom Starke
155: Stories from the trading floor - Damon Pavlatos
154: From Billion dollar trades to private trader - with Petra Zacek
153: High performance trading - with Mandi Pour Rafsendjani
152: "Backtesting trading strategies does not work" - John Ehlers
151: Buy the fear, sell the greed - Larry Connors
150: Looking at markets from different angles - Rikard Nilsson
149: Trading in Probabilities - Scott Hodson
148: Plugging holes in strategies and portfolios - Ryan Moffett
147: Building trading strategies with confidence with Adrian Reid
146: Using indicators to predict stock movements with John MacLeod
145: Protecting capital through proper risk management with Aaron Brown
144: Building dynamic trading strategies with Trader Janie
143: The 'DNA approach' to trading with Bruce Vanstone
142: Mastering the Fundamentals with Martin Lembak
141: Models are like unicorns - with Kevin Saunders
140: Forecasting a Volatility Tsunami with Andrew Thrasher
139: Generating alpha from institutional activity with Jason Bodner
138 - 2017 roundup: the year in review
137: Profiting from persistent market anomalies with Dimitri Speck
136: Anticipating market action and "pain points" with John Carter
135: How "balance" can make us better traders
134: Constructing a strong portfolio for higher returns and lower drawdowns
133: Building Mean Reversion trading strategies with Cesar Alvarez - Part
132: How to track poor strategy performance
131: What strategies work best in low volatility environments?
130: Building Mean Reversion trading strategies Part 2 with Cesar Alvarez
129: Does it actually make sense to ALWAYS use a stop loss?
128: Where to find 'phenomenal' trade setups
127: Building Mean Reversion trading strategies with Cesar Alvarez - Part 1
126: Protection in a market downturn
125: Are your trading strategies sick or healthy?
124: Managing Trades with Linda Raschke
123: Will history repeat in 2017?
122: Competing with Machine Learning and PHDs
121: Volatility and Systematic Options Strategies with Luca Giusti
120: 3 trading inspirations
119: Fear, Hope and Greed
118: Game Theory with Brian Miller
117: How to make better trading decisions
116: Building entries without curvefitting
115: Intelligent strategies that maintain themselves - David Stendahl
114: How to quickly identify when an edge has gone
113: How good are your entries and exits... really?
112: Intraday Trading with Stefano Serafini
111: Managing Monte Carlo
110: George Costanza tip for Traders
109: Adaptive Trading Systems with Brian Miller
108: What Market Breadth can reveal about current market conditions
107: Indicators that adapt to changing market conditions
106: Can meditation give traders an edge with Adam Grimes
105: A Dangerous Optimization Assumption
104: Pulling the trigger in paradise
103: A New Responsive Indicator with John Ehlers
102: Is simple or complex better?
101: Trading price patterns with Brent Penfold
100: Ask Jack Schwager
099: Where to focus for top trading performance
098: When is a strategy ready for live trading?
097: Optimization Myths with Jack Schwager
096: Could you be throwing away good trading strategies?
095: What makes a successful trader?
094: Cornering the market with Kurt Sakaeda
093: Trading in an emergency
092: Trading for a Living with Nick Radge
091: Leveraging Exits with Laurent Bernut
090: How to find trading ideas every single day
089: Automated trading – 'Set and forget' or 'Forget and regret'?
088: Protect and Grow Capital during Corrections with Ivanhoff
087: What's your risk of ruin?
086: Why consider future market conditions?
085: Intraday Trading Strategies with Gary Hart
084: Handling noisy markets
083: How to get better at anything, faster
082: Machine Learning with Kris Longmore
081: Trading the Mean Reversion Curve
080: "My Best Losing Year Ever"
079: Strategy Validation with Dave Bergstrom
078: Deadly snake face-off
077: Choosing the right exit
076: Entries, Exits and Trend Following with Larry Tentarelli
075: Green Eggs and Traders
074: A deeper understanding of optimization with Andrea Unger
073: Combining simple concepts to build robust strategies with Art Collins
072: Become a better trader by NOT trading
071: Does that strategy belong here?
070: Risk Management with Robert Carver
069: What's all the fuss about?
068: Is it time to move on?
067 - Quantitative Momentum with Jack Vogel
066: What can traders learn from Sully?
065: The Top 10 Trading Lessons of 2016
064: Cryptocurrencies and Machine Learning with Bert Mouler
063: Market Regimes with Alan Clement
062: Mean Reversion strategies with PJ Sutherland
061: Foundations of Trading with Dr Howard Bandy
060: Strategy Optimization with Robert Pardo
059: Reducing Drawdowns with Scott Phillips
058: Adapting to market conditions with John Ehlers
057: Trading on Sentiment with Richard Peterson
056: Allocating capital for higher returns with Michael Melissinos
055: Adam Grimes discusses market behavior, discretionary vs quant approaches and the application of Keltner channels in trading.
054: From trading ideas to robust strategies - lessons and highlights from episodes 21-40
053: Should system traders ever override their systems?
052 - An 'unfair trading advantage' with Tomas Nesnidal
051: Strategy evaluation techniques, flaws and solutions with Dave Walton
050: Linda Raschke shares the work of Nelson Freeburg, his approach to model development and what we can learn by studying his work.
049: Linda Raschke on trading edges, modelling the markets, identifying market behavior, trade management and day trading techniques.
048: John Ehlers discusses indicator lag, applications of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) in trading, the MESA approach, Cycles and regime switching.
047: Nitesh Khandelwal on how to choose an algorithmic trading platform and trading statistical arbitrage
046: Perry Kaufman discusses strategy development and the issues and mistakes traders make when creating robust trading strategies.
045: Andrea Unger explains how the traditional approach to entries can limit our ability to read the market and how he's modified the approach to identify entry opportunities.
044: Short selling expert Laurent Bernut continues our discussion on short selling, bear markets, position sizing, trading edge and trading psychology.
043: Tomas Nesnidal discusses how to create profitable breakout strategies, how to add new life into old strategies and why creative thinking is such an important aspect of successful trading.
042: Murray Ruggiero discusses intermarket analysis, system premise, creating robust strategies, the future of trading PLUS loads of questions from the audience.
041: Michael Cook and Kevin Davey discuss the benefits of collaboration on trading, why collaboration is so important, how to find the right people and tips to maximising effectiveness.
040: Larry Williams discusses algorithmic forecasting, the methods and applications of forecasting, cycles and seasonality, plus some forecasts for the markets in 2016.
039: Michael Cook discusses position sizing to maximise returns, using the market to determine stop levels and the role of discretion in systematic trading.
038: World cup trading champion Kevin Davey talks about the importance of trading goals, common mistakes traders make and the best way to formulate good goals.
037: Quant trader Cesar Alvarez discusses stop losses, including intraday vs EOD stops, volatility vs percentage stops, trailing stops vs targets, which is best?
036: Michael Bryant discusses automatic strategy creation, exploiting trade dependency and techniques to trading the equity curve.
035: Andrew Gibbs discusses volatility and trading the VIX plus the benefits and methods of including fundamental data in technical quant models.
034: Jay Kaeppel discusses seasonality, how it can be integrated into a trading model, applications of the Known Trend Index and why most traders fail.
032: Laurent Bernut discusses short selling, the importance of exits, insights into Bear markets, autotrading Forex and why complexity is a form of laziness.
033: Fund manager Thomas Stridsman discusses strategy development, why you need to normalise metrics, tips to creating robust strategies and why he doesn't test entries and exits any more (and what to focus on instead).
031: Greg Morris discusses the real definition of risk and how to manage it, the applications of market breadth and how the 'Weight of the evidence' concept can be used in trading.
030: Highlights and insights from Episodes 1- 20
029: Alan Clement discusses Rotational trading, alternatives to stop losses, measuring system health, dynamic position sizing and anticipating trading signals.
028: David Aronson shares research into indicators that identify Bull and Bear markets, including the Golden Cross/Death Cross, RSI, ADX, ROC and many others.
027: Trader and Psychologist Dr Gary Dayton discusses why traditional approaches to controlling emotions don't work, the role of emotions in trading and how mindfulness can improve trading performance.
026: Systematic trader Robert Carver discusses trading rules, what makes a good trading rule and the advantages of using continuous rather than binary rules. He also shares insights into over-fitting and the challenges of walk-forward testing that can mak
025: Dr Brett Steenbarger, trader and trading coach, discusses creativity, static thinking and why it's important to have unique ideas for trading success. We also cover tips to increasing our creativity, why traditional trading rules need to be updated,
024: Trader coach Dr Van Tharp discusses beliefs and their impact on trading, the qualities of successful traders, adapting trading to market types, position sizing, trading mistakes and overcoming fear, perfectionism and impatience.
023: Portfolio manager Michael Himmel discusses Artificial Intelligence, the challenges and applications of AI in trading, criticisms of Machine Learning, event studies and the importance of selecting datasets.
022: Proprietary trader Robert Bubalovski discusses prop trading, arbitrage and pairs trading, statistical trading and what it takes to be a successful trader.
021: Tim Rea discusses aspects of trading multiple strategies, including monitoring performance, money management, correlation, technology and trading in markets not in your timezone. We also discuss the impacts of the MFGlobal and PFG collapses a
020: Larry Williams talks conditional trading, what drives prices, the misuse of indicators, cycles, forecasting markets PLUS 50 years of trading insights
018: Scott Andrews 'The Gap Guy' talks all about Gaps, why they work, how to pick the best Gaps and avoid the worst, Gap Zones and setting stops and targets. PLUS we discuss a concept called 'Ensemble Systems' that may just change the way you view trading
017: Jerry Parker from the original Turtles trading group shares 30+ years of trading experience in trend following and systematic trading.
016: Trading champion Andrea Unger provides tips to creating robust strategies, indicators in trading, Forex trading and optimising to understand market behaviour.
015: Stuart McPhee talks about the single biggest factor to trading success, common mistakes and the counter-intuitive side to trading, plus tips to improve discipline
014: Rande Howell discusses issues limiting trader performance, the impact of emotions, managing process not outcome and tips to improve trading performance.
013: Hedge fund manager Andreas Clenow discusses cash vs risk allocation, position rebalancing and why traditional trend following doesn't work in stocks.
012: Ernest Chan talks quantitative trading, momentum, stop losses, minimising drawdown and maximising returns, automated trading and competing with the big firms
011: Ralph Vince talks position sizing, the different applications of optimalf, trading horizon, diversification and his changing views over 25 years.
010: Perry Kaufman discusses applications of market noise, mitigating price shocks, volatility and using the Information Ratio to monitor strategy performance.
009: Gary Antonacci discusses the different types of momentum and how they can be used in a strategy to make profit and protect during a market downturn.
008: Gary Stone discusses market timing, why it works, the impacts it can have on performance and how to do it correctly to beat the majority of fund managers.
007: Rob Hanna discusses trading ideas, market behaviour, market timing, where to find the best edges and how a confluence of ideas can improve trading results.
006: Dr Howard Bandy talks about major changes in system development and trade management, handling systems that are out of sync with the markets and much more.
005: Kevin Davey discusses important aspects of system development, the best systems to use, the correct backtesting process and how to be a successful trader
004: Nick Radge discusses system design, the best type of trading systems, handling a bear market, measuring performance and the difference between successful traders and everyone else.
003: Cesar Alvarez on trading ideas, backtesting, stops and market timing
002: Brent Penfold discusses trading principles, money management, risk of ruin and how to overcome greed, hope and fear in trading
000: Welcome to Better System Trader