Strategic Asset Allocation
New Year’s Resolutions For Traders and Their Portfolios
The New Year seems to always bring great hope for change and self-improvement. For financial traders and investors, the New Year is also a time for critical self-reflection. It presents the opportunity to close out a year, log or annual return, and begin a fresh start. Undoubtedly, if you haven’t already, taking the time to establish some New Year’s resolution…
How to Gain A Competitive Edge Over Major Indexes in Stock Trading
Trading stocks can be a very competitive endeavor to get into. Large corporations, hedge funds, and other professional financial managers have long held a distinct advantage over the average trader by utilizing proprietary complex financial analysis algorithms coupled with mainframe computers and streaming market data to achieve investment results that are far superior to the “diversify and rebalance” strategies they…
End of the Year Tips For your Investment Portfolio
The 2018 year is almost at its end. If you’re like most, you likely have a long list of to-do’s to complete before the year ends. Traders and investors, especially, have their hands full. With all that needs to get done, one of the most important annual tasks that traders should ensure to complete is a year-end review of their…
Features To Look For When Choosing An Algo Trading System
There are many benefits of using automated trading systems for traders and investors. However, there are a variety of automated trading platforms available, each having distinct differences from the next. When you are looking for an automated trading platform, it is essential that you take the time to do your research, and identify important features you are interested in before…
Seeking Higher Profit Returns This Holiday Season? Use These Effective Algo Trading Strategies!
The holiday season is finally here. With all the shopping, gift-giving, cooking, and hosting that takes place this time of year, there’s a good chance that your wallet will be much lighter when it’s all said and done. In fact, according to a study by the National Relief Federation, the average American will spend $700 on holiday gifts and other…
Dealing With Whipsaw in Trading
In order to be a successful trader and trend follower, one must be able to take losses. Taking losses means being wrong to some people. When taking losses, it can cause traders to let their emotions get the best of them, resulting in jumping into various trades without taking the time to analyze the current conditions, which will likely lead…
A Look At Common Trading Order Types
Trading is much more than just buying and selling, it’s far more complicated than that. As algorithmic trading technology has helped close the knowledge gap between retail traders and large financial institutions, it has become easier for retail traders to use more advanced strategies in their trading. One of the ways investors and traders use these advanced strategies is the…
A Quick Guide To Backtesting For Traders
One of the best ways to determine how well a trading strategy will perform is by backtesting. Backtesting is a vital component of the development of an effective trading system. Backtesting uses historical market data to reconstruct trades that would have taken place in the past using rules set by a given strategy. As a result, backtesting offers statistics that…
Why Algorithmic Trading Is A Good Investment
More and more people are becoming interested in joining the world of investments, looking for a better way to do business. However, one of the biggest reasons people are hesitant to start investing in the financial markets is that it is viewed as a type of gamble — sometimes you can win big, but other times you can lose a…
Forms of Diversification To Include In Your Portfolio
If you have been following our blog or have been in the trading and investing game for a while, you know that portfolio diversification is essential. To quickly sum it up, diversification essentially means spreading assets your assets among a variety of investments. Doing this helps to mitigate risk and provides the potential to improve returns. To build a well-diversified…
