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  • RSI Levels Importance Decay November 30, 2016

    Changes in Relative Strength Index (RSI) have low correlation with changes in price for timeframes longer than two days. This relationship is highly robust for four major ETFs. The conclusion is that only very short-term traders should look at the ...

  • Machine Learning With DLPAL PRO (And R): Part Four November 20, 2016

    In this article we include R code for applying binary logistic regression classification to attribute data generated by DLPAL PRO and scoring a new instance. In Part Three, we presented the flow and details of how to generate historical attribute (features) ...

  • Machine Learning With DLPAL PRO: Part Three November 14, 2016

    DLPAL PRO’s advanced capabilities are used to implement a long/short ETF strategy. We present the flow and examples of historical attribute, test/train and scoring files. A Binary Logistic Regression classifier is used to obtain the final results. Objective: Implement a long/short ...

  • Machine Learning With DLPAL PRO: Part Two November 8, 2016

    In this article we show how to prepare historical files with continues features and a discrete target for an ensemble of securities using DLPAL PRO. Then, we apply machine learning on a random sample of half of the data and ...

  • Machine Learning With DLPAL PRO: Part One November 3, 2016

    In this article we show how to prepare historical files with continues features and a discrete target using DLPAL PRO. Then, we apply a binary logistic regression classifier on a random sample of half of the data and test the ...

  • Is Your Hedge Fund Using Your Money To Test Trading Strategies? November 1, 2016

    Is Your Hedge Fund Using Your Money To Test Trading Strategies?

  • Returns of Dow-30 And S&P 500 Diverge 10% Of The Time October 27, 2016

    Yesterday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.17% but the S&P 500 fell by about the same amount. Divergences in the returns of these two indexes occur about 10% of the time in daily, weekly and monthly timeframes and they ...

  • Variations In Results From Different Backtesting Platforms September 29, 2016

    Variations in the results generated by different backtesting platforms are common. In this article, I compare year-to-date backtesting results from Amibroker and Quantopian for a robust strategy that was machine designed by Price Action Lab software a few years ago. ...

  • Profiting From Random Strategies September 24, 2016

    The bulk of trading strategies are random because they are either overfitted to noise or are the result of selection bias. However, there are ways of even profiting from random strategies. In this article I outline the general idea and ...

  • Traders Should Stay Ahead Of Academic Research September 24, 2016

    Academics have tried hard for many years to convince traders that they cannot profit from randomness. This has negatively affected markets by lowering liquidity and surrendering exchanges to robots and algos. This biased view is also partly responsible for the ...