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Better System Trader — 242 episodes

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241: Trading Market Phases - with Mish Schneider

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240: "Uncovering hidden market reaction zones" - with Fabio Ruggeri

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239: Confident Consistent Trading - Laurens Bensdorp

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238: The new indicator that improves momentum trading signals - Alex Spiroglou

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237: New Volatility Based Trading Techniques with Rob Hanna

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236: How to Profit and Protect in Any Market Conditions - with Tom Basso

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235: How traders can compete in the markets and find profitable edges - Jason Strimpel

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234: The Trading Panel – Episode 11

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233: The Trading Panel – Episode 10

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232: The Trading Panel – Episode 9

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231: The Trading Panel – Episode 8

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230: The Trading Panel – Episode 7

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229: The Trading Panel – Episode 6

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228: The Trading Panel – Episode 5

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227: The Trading Panel – Episode 4

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226: The Trading Panel – Episode 3

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225: Algorithmic Crypto Trading - Pavel Kycek

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224: "The Trading Panel" Episode 2

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223: "The Trading Panel" Episode 1

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222: Surviving Uncertain Markets - Richard Brennan

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221: Bad trades, shorting disasters and just get out!

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220: 3 Biggest Lessons From Tennis Pro to Trading Pro

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219: 3 Biggest Lessons from Chart Trader to Algo Hedge Fund Manager

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218: Trading Triumphs - Jerry Parker #3: The Dangers of Optimization

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217: Trading Triumphs - Jerry Parker #2: Excessive Risk

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216: Trading Triumphs - Jerry Parker #1: Fear of Executing Trades

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215: Trading Triumphs: Kevin Davey's Journey To Success Part 3

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214: Trading Triumphs: Kevin Davey's Journey To Success Part 2

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213: Trading Triumphs: Kevin Davey's Journey To Success Part 1

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212: Trading Triumphs - Brent Penfold's Journey to Success

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211: Trading Triumphs: The Journey to Success with Adrian Reid

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How do successful traders make better decisions?

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Using "Big Picture" Analysis to Guide Trading Decisions - Brent Penfold

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Indicators vs Price Action - Which is King?

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207: Preparing for a new trading year

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206: "Systematic Crypto" – Adrian Reid

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205: "Simple strategies, stable results." – David Stendahl

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204: "How to leverage market biases to improve strategy performance" – Lawrence Chan

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203: "Going against the crowd - a contrarian approach to trading profits." – Jason Shapiro

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202: "Buying pullbacks, avoiding bear markets" – Larry Tentarelli

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201: "Getting serious about part-time trading" – Kris Longmore

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200: "Using market noise to improve strategies" – Martyn Tinsley

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199: "Trading statistical edges in crypto" – Brian Blandin

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198: "3 ways to improve trading models" – Curtis White

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197: "How to use volatility to outperform the market" – Kyle Schultz

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196: "How to avoid curve fitting using independent testing" – Jeff Swanson

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195: "Low-effort Trading Strategies" – Cesar Alvarez

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194: "How to improve trend following performance" – David Lundgren

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193: "Innovation as a trading edge" – Dr Brett Steenbarger

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192: "Predicting profitability using machine learning" – Ernie Chan

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191: Combining Algos using State-Based Market Design – Richard Metzger

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190: Performing like a world champion even under stress and uncertainty – Mandi Pour Rafsendjani

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189: Managing multiple trading strategies – David Bean

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188: "Why trading can be so challenging (and what to do about it)" – Adam Grimes

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187: "How to spot a trading scam" – Kevin Davey

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186: "Breaking the rules for higher returns" – Scott Welsh

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185: How to avoid creating trading strategies that degrade quickly - Timothy Masters

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184: Increasing returns using "Performance Qualifiers" – Tomas Nesnidal

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183: Overcoming Broken Strategies – Marsten Parker

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182: How to identify high probability markets - David Steets

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181: Short-term Swing Trading Techniques – Ivanhoff

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180: 3 ways traders kill trading strategies (and how to avoid them) – Rob Carver

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179: Effective techniques to identify trends – Doc Ahrens

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178: How to build Mean Reversion trading strategies – Stefan Friedrichowski

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177: Superior returns from superior risk management – Laurent Bernut

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176: Dealing with market uncertainty and lessons of 2020 - Michael Grech

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175: 3 under-utilized techniques to build dramatically better trading strategies – Brian Miller

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174 : How to find statistical edges to improve your trading – Scott Andrews

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173: Trend Trading Tactics – Brent Penfold

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172: The Magic of Momentum Trading – Alan Clement

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171: How to survive market sell-offs – Perry Kaufman

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170: How to detect when a trading strategy is failing – Kevin Davey

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169: Will AI replace the human trader – Bob Pardo

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168: How to optimize strategies for robustness (properly) – John Ehlers

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167: Improve trading performance by being a flexible trader – Steve Ward

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166: Consistent Equity Growth using Diversification – Nick Radge

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165: Effective Market Regime Techniques - Cesar Alvarez

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What's next for BST?

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Important Announcement

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164: Performance Accelerators - Steve Ward

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163: The Laws of Trading - Agustin Lebron

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162: Building effective entries and exits - Kevin Davey

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161: Improving performance with strategies that manage strategies - David Bean

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160: How to achieve long-term trading success - Linda Raschke

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159: Maximising the potential of portfolios - Adam Butler

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158: Bull, Bear or Correction? Reading the signs - Troy Bombardia

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157: Assumptions, Probabilities and Diversification with Michael Grech

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156 - Where is technology taking us? - Dr Tom Starke

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155: Stories from the trading floor - Damon Pavlatos

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154: From Billion dollar trades to private trader - with Petra Zacek

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153: High performance trading - with Mandi Pour Rafsendjani

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152: "Backtesting trading strategies does not work" - John Ehlers

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151: Buy the fear, sell the greed - Larry Connors

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150: Looking at markets from different angles - Rikard Nilsson

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149: Trading in Probabilities - Scott Hodson

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148: Plugging holes in strategies and portfolios - Ryan Moffett

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147: Building trading strategies with confidence with Adrian Reid

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146: Using indicators to predict stock movements with John MacLeod

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145: Protecting capital through proper risk management with Aaron Brown

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144: Building dynamic trading strategies with Trader Janie

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143: The 'DNA approach' to trading with Bruce Vanstone

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142: Mastering the Fundamentals with Martin Lembak

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141: Models are like unicorns - with Kevin Saunders

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140: Forecasting a Volatility Tsunami with Andrew Thrasher

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139: Generating alpha from institutional activity with Jason Bodner

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138 - 2017 roundup: the year in review

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137: Profiting from persistent market anomalies with Dimitri Speck

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136: Anticipating market action and "pain points" with John Carter

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135: How "balance" can make us better traders

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134: Constructing a strong portfolio for higher returns and lower drawdowns

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133: Building Mean Reversion trading strategies with Cesar Alvarez - Part

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132: How to track poor strategy performance

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131: What strategies work best in low volatility environments?

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130: Building Mean Reversion trading strategies Part 2 with Cesar Alvarez

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129: Does it actually make sense to ALWAYS use a stop loss?

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128: Where to find 'phenomenal' trade setups

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127: Building Mean Reversion trading strategies with Cesar Alvarez - Part 1

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126: Protection in a market downturn

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125: Are your trading strategies sick or healthy?

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124: Managing Trades with Linda Raschke

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123: Will history repeat in 2017?

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122: Competing with Machine Learning and PHDs

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121: Volatility and Systematic Options Strategies with Luca Giusti

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120: 3 trading inspirations

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119: Fear, Hope and Greed

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118: Game Theory with Brian Miller

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117: How to make better trading decisions

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116: Building entries without curvefitting

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115: Intelligent strategies that maintain themselves - David Stendahl

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114: How to quickly identify when an edge has gone

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113: How good are your entries and exits... really?

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112: Intraday Trading with Stefano Serafini

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111: Managing Monte Carlo

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110: George Costanza tip for Traders

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109: Adaptive Trading Systems with Brian Miller

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108: What Market Breadth can reveal about current market conditions

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107: Indicators that adapt to changing market conditions

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106: Can meditation give traders an edge with Adam Grimes

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105: A Dangerous Optimization Assumption

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104: Pulling the trigger in paradise

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103: A New Responsive Indicator with John Ehlers

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102: Is simple or complex better?

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101: Trading price patterns with Brent Penfold

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100: Ask Jack Schwager

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099: Where to focus for top trading performance

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098: When is a strategy ready for live trading?

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097: Optimization Myths with Jack Schwager

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096: Could you be throwing away good trading strategies?

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095: What makes a successful trader?

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094: Cornering the market with Kurt Sakaeda

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093: Trading in an emergency

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092: Trading for a Living with Nick Radge

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091: Leveraging Exits with Laurent Bernut

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090: How to find trading ideas every single day

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089: Automated trading – 'Set and forget' or 'Forget and regret'?

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088: Protect and Grow Capital during Corrections with Ivanhoff

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087: What's your risk of ruin?

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086: Why consider future market conditions?

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085: Intraday Trading Strategies with Gary Hart

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084: Handling noisy markets

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083: How to get better at anything, faster

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082: Machine Learning with Kris Longmore

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081: Trading the Mean Reversion Curve

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080: "My Best Losing Year Ever"

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079: Strategy Validation with Dave Bergstrom

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078: Deadly snake face-off

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077: Choosing the right exit

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076: Entries, Exits and Trend Following with Larry Tentarelli

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075: Green Eggs and Traders

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074: A deeper understanding of optimization with Andrea Unger

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073: Combining simple concepts to build robust strategies with Art Collins

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072: Become a better trader by NOT trading

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071: Does that strategy belong here?

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070: Risk Management with Robert Carver

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069: What's all the fuss about?

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068: Is it time to move on?

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067 - Quantitative Momentum with Jack Vogel

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066: What can traders learn from Sully?

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065: The Top 10 Trading Lessons of 2016

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064: Cryptocurrencies and Machine Learning with Bert Mouler

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063: Market Regimes with Alan Clement

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062: Mean Reversion strategies with PJ Sutherland

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061: Foundations of Trading with Dr Howard Bandy

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060: Strategy Optimization with Robert Pardo

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059: Reducing Drawdowns with Scott Phillips

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058: Adapting to market conditions with John Ehlers

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057: Trading on Sentiment with Richard Peterson

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056: Allocating capital for higher returns with Michael Melissinos

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055: Adam Grimes discusses market behavior, discretionary vs quant approaches and the application of Keltner channels in trading.

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054: From trading ideas to robust strategies - lessons and highlights from episodes 21-40

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053: Should system traders ever override their systems?

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052 - An 'unfair trading advantage' with Tomas Nesnidal

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051: Strategy evaluation techniques, flaws and solutions with Dave Walton

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050: Linda Raschke shares the work of Nelson Freeburg, his approach to model development and what we can learn by studying his work.

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049: Linda Raschke on trading edges, modelling the markets, identifying market behavior, trade management and day trading techniques.

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048: John Ehlers discusses indicator lag, applications of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) in trading, the MESA approach, Cycles and regime switching.

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047: Nitesh Khandelwal on how to choose an algorithmic trading platform and trading statistical arbitrage

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046: Perry Kaufman discusses strategy development and the issues and mistakes traders make when creating robust trading strategies.

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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.

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044: Short selling expert Laurent Bernut continues our discussion on short selling, bear markets, position sizing, trading edge and trading psychology.

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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.

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042: Murray Ruggiero discusses intermarket analysis, system premise, creating robust strategies, the future of trading PLUS loads of questions from the audience.

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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.

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040: Larry Williams discusses algorithmic forecasting, the methods and applications of forecasting, cycles and seasonality, plus some forecasts for the markets in 2016.

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039: Michael Cook discusses position sizing to maximise returns, using the market to determine stop levels and the role of discretion in systematic trading.

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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.

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037: Quant trader Cesar Alvarez discusses stop losses, including intraday vs EOD stops, volatility vs percentage stops, trailing stops vs targets, which is best?

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036: Michael Bryant discusses automatic strategy creation, exploiting trade dependency and techniques to trading the equity curve.

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035: Andrew Gibbs discusses volatility and trading the VIX plus the benefits and methods of including fundamental data in technical quant models.

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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.

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032: Laurent Bernut discusses short selling, the importance of exits, insights into Bear markets, autotrading Forex and why complexity is a form of laziness.

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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).

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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.

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030: Highlights and insights from Episodes 1- 20

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029: Alan Clement discusses Rotational trading, alternatives to stop losses, measuring system health, dynamic position sizing and anticipating trading signals.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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,

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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.

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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.

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022: Proprietary trader Robert Bubalovski discusses prop trading, arbitrage and pairs trading, statistical trading and what it takes to be a successful trader.

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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

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020: Larry Williams talks conditional trading, what drives prices, the misuse of indicators, cycles, forecasting markets PLUS 50 years of trading insights

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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

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017: Jerry Parker from the original Turtles trading group shares 30+ years of trading experience in trend following and systematic trading.

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016: Trading champion Andrea Unger provides tips to creating robust strategies, indicators in trading, Forex trading and optimising to understand market behaviour.

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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

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014: Rande Howell discusses issues limiting trader performance, the impact of emotions, managing process not outcome and tips to improve trading performance.

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013: Hedge fund manager Andreas Clenow discusses cash vs risk allocation, position rebalancing and why traditional trend following doesn't work in stocks.

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012: Ernest Chan talks quantitative trading, momentum, stop losses, minimising drawdown and maximising returns, automated trading and competing with the big firms

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011: Ralph Vince talks position sizing, the different applications of optimalf, trading horizon, diversification and his changing views over 25 years.

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010: Perry Kaufman discusses applications of market noise, mitigating price shocks, volatility and using the Information Ratio to monitor strategy performance.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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003: Cesar Alvarez on trading ideas, backtesting, stops and market timing

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002: Brent Penfold discusses trading principles, money management, risk of ruin and how to overcome greed, hope and fear in trading

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000: Welcome to Better System Trader