Episode 020: Listener question – “How to get over a losing streak?”
Imagine starting your trading journey. You have a super positive mindset and you’re excited to...
What’s your ‘final exit plan’?
I’m seriously tired. Running a hedge fund is not fun. Not at all. Yes, we do have spectacular results so far. And new money is flowing into our hedge fund every month. Yet, I feel extremely exhausted. Fast growth is bringing up challenges we were not ready for. During...
The surprising reason of financial no-results in trading
I’ll tell you a very surprising, yet very true reason why many people don’t make money in trading. There is a chance this reason applies to you too... But first, let me share something else with you. I’m a complete idiot when it comes to learning languages. And I mean...
Episode 019: Success story #3 (PART 2) – How Alan the surgeon initiated operation “portfolio”
Last week, we hosted a brilliant discussion with the orthopedic surgeon,...
Breaking through the fear of going ‘fully in’ with your trading
About 10 years ago I had to face a serious trading challenge. I wasn't able to go ‘full in’ with my trading. And I couldn’t figure out why. I had a good day trading strategy and had been trading it live for a while already. Yet, I was trading it with one contract...
The disappointment of adaptive indicators
Last year I tried my favorite Wonton soup in a Michelin restaurant. And I was utterly disappointed. It was in Kuala Lumpur, in the famous Din Tai Fung restaurant at Bukit Bintang. It is 1 Michelin star restaurant, with many awards and recommendations. (Including the...
Episode 018: Success story #3 (PART 1) – How orthopedic surgeon Alan created more than 70 robust strategies in under 2 months
Alan, an electric engineer tuned orthopedic surgeon, went into...
A simple hack to ‘super-boost’ trading performance
From my experience, simple hacks don’t work 99% of the time. Yet, the remaining 1% of the time, they can bring some truly remarkable results. And I believe you’ll really like the one I’m going to share with you because it’s easy to implement and the results are...
Student case study (3/3): Improving a trading strategy by +114.40%
Would you like to see a car that can drive, fly and swim? There’s something really cool about crazy ‘3-in-1’ solutions like this… 🙂 Source: FORBES MAGAZINE JAN 2004 Forbes magazine wrote about such a car in the January 2004 issue. It was a very ambitious project ran...
Student case study (2/3): The SFB way to more robust strategies
I once lost almost 20,000 USD on a trading strategy because of poor robustness. It was at the start of my trading career and I had no idea what I was doing. I thought that all I needed to do to be a successful trader was to get some cool trading idea and then optimize...
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