If you do not understand what is going on below on a “Gamma scalping” strategy on BTC (bitcoin as an asset) You should never ever try trading on any asset class 🙂 How a real fund makes money from volatility (step-by-step, using $100,000 BTC) Assume: At the start:Delta-neutral. No directional risk. Now let’s see how they profit. Step 2 – BTC goes up 10% → $110,000 Straddle delta becomes +0.5 BTC.The fund is unintentionally long…
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Lets see them in Order: 5 Year Analysis of US30, GER30, NIKKEI, CHINA50, WTI, UKX, US500, EmergingBasket 5 Year Analysis of US30, GER30, NIKKEI, CHINA50, WTI, UKX, US500, EmergingBasket ADD GOLD. 5 Year Analysis of US30, GER30, NIKKEI, CHINA50, WTI, UKX, US500, EmergingBasket, GOLD ADD Bitcoin. 5 Year Analysis of US30, GER30, NIKKEI, CHINA50, WTI, UKX, US500, EmergingBasket, GOLD, Bitcoin ADD (Meta, SAP, Google) as an example of top europe and US stock tickers. Now…
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Let’s see your peference. I have posted 4 Different Algo’s. they more or less do the same but the yield curves are very different. I have also linked the code blocks if you want to test it yourself.
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Yes James Simons… I have been referring to him on different occasions. This math lover, who earned his PhD from the University of California, is known for founding and creating Renaissance Technologies Chern-Simons formwith a technical analysis style in its trading activities. Reported revenue reached $18.5 billion in 2018. Although James Simons was included in Bloomberg’s 2011 list of the 50 most influential people and was named “the world’s smartest billionaire” by the Financial Times…
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Lets Assume we bet 100 USD on Each signal. and I would stop trading the signal at 25% DD.156 x 100 = 15,600 Total First Selection of Signals: 156 (I counted them wrong as 157) 33 :Exploded 🙂 – account closed. We do not know the exact reason for stopping but we assume they blow the account up. We would have stopped at 25% DD and we have 75 USD after stoploss. 70 of them…
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The “efficient markets” theory is half right. The market’s mechanism for allocating prices is extremely fair. It’s a simple two-way auction process by which price moves over time to facilitate trade either up or down-an extremely rational, efficient process. The other half of the efficient market equation, however, is often wrong; people are seldom rational when they make financial decisions. The first step toward more profitable investing is to accept that market irrationality is due…
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Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson spend good amount of time for making it understandable in the book “The (Mis)Behavior of Markets” “Markets are much riskier than we have been led to believe. They are prone to violent, unpredictable swings, and these swings are not mere anomalies but part of the natural order of things.” This quote highlights Mandelbrot’s critique of traditional models that underestimate market risk and fail to account for extreme events. “The…
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I would constantly update this post because it is also evolving over time and I would also want to write about my failures. My findings are as precious as my successful findings.
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The 13 Laws # 1 – Have A Game Plan When Trading… And Stick To It # 2 – Control Your Emotions At All Times # 3 – Stay Disciplined And Think Objectively # 4 – Don’t Trade Just To Trade # 5 – Never Think About Money When Trading # 6 – Winning Percentage Means Absolutely Nothing # 7 – Lose Like A Professional # 8 – Let Your Winners Run # 9 –…
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Thanks to sites likewww.myfxbook.com and www.fxblue.com we have nearly infinite way of analyzing our trading performance. I generated an online results analysis page. https://ugurcandan.com/trading/ With the link provided you have a near real time analysis of my trades in MT4 terminal. This is extremely useful because trading companies archive your trades after 30 to 90 days. In such cases you loose your valuable learning potential and just left with results at monthly break down. I…
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