Designing a Trading System - Part 1

Trading with specific logic takes away the emotional factor and creates a basis from which to evaluate your trading strategy and performance. More

Designing a Trading System - Part 2

In the last issue of “Designing a Trading System”, we defined a “Stochastic Pop” entry. Also, we asked some questions that lead to testing ... More

Designing a Trading System - Part 3

In the previous issue of “Designing a Trading System – Part 2”, we theorized that the stochastic pop system defined in Part 1 is a trend-following scalping approach. More

Designing a Trading System - Part 4

In “Designing a Trading System – Part 3: Designing Exits”, we noted that the stochastic pop should have a quick exit as it is basically attempting to capture ... More

Designing a Trading System - Part 5

After exploring different exits it is time to compare results between them. These exits were namely the 13-period EMA crossover... More

Designing a Trading System - Part 6

We have come a long way since conceptualizing our stochastic pop system. A lot of the time has been spent designing ... More

Designing a Trading System - Part 7

...we have reached a point where initial testing has led to a trading system that can be coded and tested more rigorously. More

Designing a Trading System - Conclusion

This article contains the logic to our “Stochastic Pop” system. Here are some initial characteristics we have found about this strategy... More