Posts by Systematic Investors Group Team

When is it a good idea to interfere with your (automated) trading strategies? I’d like to share some insights into when it might be a good idea to interfere with your (automated) trading strategies, as well as some current “technical analysis” highlighting where the markets are today and where they might be going.  We really…

Are COMMISSIONS hurting your Systematic Trading performance?  How is the amount of capital that you’ve allocated to your Strategy affecting it’s performance? This “sneak-peak” excerpt of a larger, soon to be released presentation on “Systematic Trading Plan Development”, was presented to the AmiBroker Canada User Group ( www.amibroker-canada.org ) on May 4 2021. Automated, active…

At some point in your Systematic Trading or Investing Journey you realize that there are massive benefits to combining multiple rules-based Strategies, in order to get the best of both worlds in terms of HIGHER yearly returns with LOWER drawdowns (and lower risk).   But how do you QUANTIFY this?  This new tool, developed specifically…

Getting STARTED with anything new is always hardest.  The amount of friction points to overcome are always the strongest… there are always so many questions to answer first! How Much $$$$ Do I Need In Order To Get Started With Systematic Investing? This is a common question, and for good reason.  The answer is going…

( Guest Blog Post by Mountain Trading Group )   The start of 2021 has been hard on bonds (TLT). It has also been hard on the Nasdaq-100 (NDX). TLT thus far is down about 12.5% YTD (including dividends) and is currently experiencing a drawdown of 19% with the last high occurring on August 4th,…

(Strategy Presentation begins in the video at the end of the blog post at the 36:08 timestamp mark).   * Click Here to Download the presentation slide deck.  This presentation (Session 2) starts at Slide 19) Pre-Amble I recently did a presentation on AmiBroker Strategy Development and AutoTrading.  You can find the recording below at…

(Scroll down to video at bottom of the page for presentation.  The Presentation starts at the 8:02 Timestamp mark). * Click Here to Download the Slide Deck to this Presentation.  Note that this is the first Session of two (2) Presentations.  The slides for this presentation are from 1-18.  If you are interested in Session…

(Scroll down to video at bottom of the page). The team at SIG just released a new Systematic BETA Strategy for the Nasdaq 100 Universe of stocks called the “Fab Tech Rotation Strategy”. If you like big gains with less active trading and slightly longer hold times, then you might want to bookmark and add…

Systematic Investing (Trading) typically means using a rules-based approach for entries and exits that is NOT open to interpretation. This is important, because it allows your trading to be CONSISTENT and therefore MEASURABLE. We can come up with some rules and backtest those rules against historical data to see how well a Strategy has performed…

Today we honour and thank those brave men and women that have sacrificed and given their lives for the incredible freedoms that we take for granted each day.  The beginning of November was a strong month leading into the US Elections.  Let’s just dive right in…