Better System Trader
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
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.
21 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Tomas Nesnidal has been a full-time trader for over 11 years, specializing in automated algorithmic trading strategies. He has experience with a numbe...
042: Murray Ruggiero discusses intermarket analysis, system premise, creating robust strategies, the future of trading PLUS loads of questions from the audience.
07 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Murray Ruggiero is the chief systems designer and market analyst at Tuttle Wealth Management, with around 200 million dollars under management. He is...
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.
24 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
For those traders looking for an edge in every aspect of trading, today's topic is something that isn't discussed too much but has had a great impact...
040: Larry Williams discusses algorithmic forecasting, the methods and applications of forecasting, cycles and seasonality, plus some forecasts for the markets in 2016.
17 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Larry Williams has been a guest of the podcast before, sharing insights from 50 years of trading in Episode 20. In 1987 he won the World Cup™ tradin...
039: Michael Cook discusses position sizing to maximise returns, using the market to determine stop levels and the role of discretion in systematic trading.
10 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We've been very lucky to have a number of trading champions on the podcast before and this episode we get to talk to another champion trader, Michael...
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.
01 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year! The start of a new year is typically the time when people review their accomplishments and progress for the past year, and make fresh...
037: Quant trader Cesar Alvarez discusses stop losses, including intraday vs EOD stops, volatility vs percentage stops, trailing stops vs targets, which is best?
27 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we're discussing the results of a quantitative study on stop losses completed by Cesar Alvarez of Alvarez Quant Trading. Cesar was ...
036: Michael Bryant discusses automatic strategy creation, exploiting trade dependency and techniques to trading the equity curve.
13 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Creating robust trading strategies can be a difficult task, sometimes taking months or even years to generate something you find acceptable. Even then...
035: Andrew Gibbs discusses volatility and trading the VIX plus the benefits and methods of including fundamental data in technical quant models.
29 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Gibbs has been involved in the financial markets since 2001 and is the founder and CEO of Halifax New Zealand. Andrew has extensive experience ...
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.
22 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jay Kaeppel has over 25 years experience in the financial markets. He has worked as the Head Trader for a CTA and published a number of popular tradin...
032: Laurent Bernut discusses short selling, the importance of exits, insights into Bear markets, autotrading Forex and why complexity is a form of laziness.
08 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Laurent Bernut was a systematic short seller with Fidelity for 8 years. His mandate was to underperform the longest bear market in modern history: Jap...
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).
07 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Stridsman has over 20 years experience in the financial markets. He was an editor for Futures magazine and published two books on trading syste...
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.
31 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Morris was Sr. Vice President, Chief Technical Analyst, and Chairman of the Investment Committee for Stadion Money Management, overseeing the ma...
030: Highlights and insights from Episodes 1- 20
25 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A couple of weeks ago I went back through all the guests we've had on the show so far and realised how very fortunate we've been to have so many fanta...
029: Alan Clement discusses Rotational trading, alternatives to stop losses, measuring system health, dynamic position sizing and anticipating trading signals.
18 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Clement is a Certified Financial Technician, full time independent trader, quantitative trading systems designer and private investment consultan...
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.
11 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
David Aronson is a pioneer in machine learning and nonlinear trading system development and signal boosting/filtering. He is author of "Evidence Based...
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.
03 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Gary Dayton has been an active trader since 1999 and is President of a consulting firm that specializes in developing "peak" performance in trader...
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
27 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Carver is an independent systematic trader who spent more than seven years working for one of the worlds largest systematic hedge funds. In thi...
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,
21 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Brett N. Steenbarger, Ph.D. is a trader, psychologist and trading coach who has been actively involved in the financial markets since the late 1970s....
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.
13 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Dr Van Tharp talks about beliefs and their impact on trading, the qualities of successful traders, adapting trading to market types,...
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.
05 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Himmel is a Founding Partner, Portfolio Manager and Director of AI Research for Essex Asset Management. He has been actively trading and des...
022: Proprietary trader Robert Bubalovski discusses prop trading, arbitrage and pairs trading, statistical trading and what it takes to be a successful trader.
30 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Bubalovski is the Managing Director and Head Trader at TradeView investments, a privately held proprietary trading firm located in Melbourne, ...
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
23 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Rea is a proprietary trader, trading his own money with well over 100 automated systems across 25 different Futures contracts. He is a past wi...
020: Larry Williams talks conditional trading, what drives prices, the misuse of indicators, cycles, forecasting markets PLUS 50 years of trading insights
16 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this weeks episode Larry Williams talks about conditional trading, understanding what drives prices, the misuse of indicators and how to apply the...
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
03 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Andrews 'The Gap Guy' shares his expertise in gaps, why they work, what factors to take into account when trading gaps and what to avoid. We als...
017: Jerry Parker from the original Turtles trading group shares 30+ years of trading experience in trend following and systematic trading.
27 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jerry Parker, Turtle Trader and CTA, talks about trend following, how to approach wins and losses, dealing with drawdowns, managing correlations in a...
016: Trading champion Andrea Unger provides tips to creating robust strategies, indicators in trading, Forex trading and optimising to understand market behaviour.
20 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
World Cup Trading champion Andrea Unger discusses how to create robust strategies, the role of indicators in trading, principles to strategy creatio...
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
12 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Stuart McPhee discusses the common mistakes traders make, the single biggest factor to trading success, the counter-intuitive side to trading and tip...
014: Rande Howell discusses issues limiting trader performance, the impact of emotions, managing process not outcome and tips to improve trading performance.
05 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Performance coach Rande Howell discusses the most common issues limiting trader performance, the impact of emotions on trading, the importance of ...
013: Hedge fund manager Andreas Clenow discusses cash vs risk allocation, position rebalancing and why traditional trend following doesn't work in stocks.
29 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Andreas Clenow is a hedge fund manager who specialises in developing and trading quantitative strategies across all asset classes. Before joining t...
012: Ernest Chan talks quantitative trading, momentum, stop losses, minimising drawdown and maximising returns, automated trading and competing with the big firms
21 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Ernest Chan talks about many aspects of quantitative trading, including how market crises impact momentum strategies and how to manage the impact...
011: Ralph Vince talks position sizing, the different applications of optimalf, trading horizon, diversification and his changing views over 25 years.
14 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Ralph Vince talks about position sizing, how to choose a position sizing model that suits you, optimalf, the curve and how it can be used for maximu...
010: Perry Kaufman discusses applications of market noise, mitigating price shocks, volatility and using the Information Ratio to monitor strategy performance.
07 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Perry Kaufman discusses market noise, the impact it has on trading styles and how it can be used to determine which strategies suit a particular mar...
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.
31 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Antonacci discuss all things momentum; the different types of momentum and their individual applications, how they can be combined, how momentu...
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.
24 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Stone discusses market timing, why it works, the impact it can have on strategy performance and simple methods you can test for yourself. We als...
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.
17 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Hanna tells us how he comes up with so many trading ideas, the type of market behaviours to look out for and his favourite piece of information...
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.
10 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In our chat with Dr Howard Bandy we talk about major changes occurring in the fields of trading system development, trade management and technical ...
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
03 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Davey talks about how we went about winning the trading competition, the type of systems you want for the future, some very important aspects ...
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.
26 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In our chat with Nick we discuss system design, the best type of systems to trade, how observations can lead to better strategies, the best way to han...
003: Cesar Alvarez on trading ideas, backtesting, stops and market timing
19 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In our chat with Cesar Alvarez we talk about trading ideas, key concepts and pitfalls of backtesting, the impact of stops on returns, market timing, ...
002: Brent Penfold discusses trading principles, money management, risk of ruin and how to overcome greed, hope and fear in trading
19 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode with Brent Penfold we cover fundamental topics that impacts traders of all levels, from beginner to advanced. We talk about some of th...
000: Welcome to Better System Trader
11 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Better System Trader, the podcast where expert traders share tips, tricks and actionable insights to improve trading results. In this episo...