Line Your Own Pockets

Looking at your P&L while you're trading is toxic.  This also applies when looking at someone else's results - perhaps even more so.

Be wary when going from backtest to live trading.  You're at peak optimism, and if you're not careful, disappointment awaits.In this episode, we discuss all the ways a live trading can fall short of your backtest and what you can do about it.

How to get out of backtest world and make the next steps to get your strategy live.

The second episode in our series on creating profitable strategies using backtesting.We review:How most traders backtest the wrong wayHow to add columns to your backtestWhat columns make the most senseHow your "library of columns" gets more and more valuable over time

The first episode in a mini-series on how to create a trading strategy using backtesting.

We discuss Dave's recent experience using ChatGPT to create the Strategy Cruncher, a tool for optimizing your trading strategies.Prediction market for who will have the best AI model by the end of the year.

Every trader has an opinion on what the perfect metric is to evaluate a strategy and to optimize on.We discuss our favorites and why.

"If your backtest looks great for the last 3 months, why do you care what it looked like before that?"A trader Dave started coaching recently asked this question. The answer cuts to the core of why most traders give up on a trading strategy and end up quitting trading altogether.The Spurious Correlations website that was mentioned in the podcast.

You've got a lot of ideas, each requiring a certain amount of work.  How do you decide what trading ideas are likely to pan out?Improving an existing strategyCreating a new strategyRelated workflow tasksThe ICE Method

We discuss the most common objections traders have to using automation and how to get over the hump.