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OI13: The Art of Continuous Trading: Mastering Market Dynamics ft. Bill Gebhardt

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Jan 15, 2025
Bill Gebhardt dives deep into the paradox of market efficiency versus successful price-based trading strategies. He highlights the psychological aspects of trading, illustrating how human behavior can present unique opportunities for systematic traders. The discussion navigates the complexities of continuous trading, examining the vital role of intraday data and optimal signal variety. Gebhardt also addresses the risks of underfitting vs. overfitting and explores methods for balancing short-term and long-term trading performance.
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INSIGHT

Market Efficiency Paradox

  • Markets should be efficient enough that price-based strategies shouldn't work.
  • Yet, countless hedge funds succeed using these strategies, revealing a knowledge gap in market function understanding.
INSIGHT

Pain as an Edge

  • Systematic trading systems cause pain (drawdowns, counterintuitive trades).
  • This pain may be a feature, not a bug, creating an edge that doesn't disappear, because most humans avoid it.
ANECDOTE

Origin of 10Dynamics Philosophy

  • Bill Gebhardt's trading philosophy stems from a PhD class where he realized random walk charts don't resemble real charts.
  • This led him to explore fractal market theories, influencing his model-building approach and multi-timeframe analysis.
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