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I’m attacking the risk, not trying to avoid it

By Markus · January 31, 2022 · 2 min

The title is a quote I heard from Tom Basso, a semi-retired trader featured in “ The New Market Wizards ” book that was published in 1992. According…

By Markus · January 18, 2022 · 5 min

When I see a trading book that should be good I do research on the author as well as the writing before I decide to get it. I had heard about this…

By Markus · January 1, 2022 · 2 min

Happy New Year! Absolute performance measures the annual returns of a portfolio, while relative performance compares it to a benchmark or some index…

By Markus · December 14, 2021 · 5 min

Earlier this year I posted a simple strategy on how to beat the S&P 500 index with market timing . I had done the backtest on 21 years of data in…

By Markus · December 1, 2021 · 3 min

In 2019, my trading started to turn more into quantitative style. First, I backtested ideas manually with charts and spreadsheets, then switched to…

By Markus · November 16, 2021 · 4 min

Simply put, compounding means money makes money that makes money that makes money. So, instead of thinking about returns in a linear fashion…