Posts by Systematic Investors Group Team

* Video Below * Diversification: Why Multiple Systematic Strategies Make Sense For DIY Traders and Investors that have been in the markets for some time, there is usually a natural progression or variation of that progression that goes something like this… Start trading with stocks. Make some money then lose more money. Try different instruments…

Lessons from Backtesting with Gary B of Mountain Trading At a recent meeting, I had the pleasure of having a friend and fellow Systematic Investor, Gary, give an in-depth presentation on his backtesting process. The cool thing about the meeting was that he didn’t just cover backtesting, he covered the reasons why he chose to…

Well, it was finally time to start putting some new strategies into motion.  At the end of December 2019, I talked about how I was forward testing these same strategies using a FREE Alera Portfolio Manager paper trading account (connected to a paper trading Interactive Brokers account). I’ve been waiting for a pause or bit…

A few weeks ago, I started paper trading a few automated stock trading strategies to see how they looked in simulated real world market conditions.  (These are the same strategies that we offer FREE Strategy Scans each day on our site). Paper Trading a strategy is a great way to forward test after you have…

This was a presentation on using Alera Portfolio Manager (APM) that was given in the very early stages by Dave and Dan to Brian and his community at QuantLabsNet.