Beating the Financial Futures Market: Combining Small Biases Into Powerful Money Making Strategies
Beating the Financial Futures Market provides you with a straightforward, historically proven program to cut through the noise, determine what bits of information are valuable and integrate those bits into an overall trading program designed to jump on lucrative trading opportunities as they occur.
Introduction:
Written by veteran commodities trader, systems designer, lecturer, author, and Chicago Board of Trade member, Art Collins, this comprehensive trading handbook details: Guidelines for overcoming dead-end discretionary trading “insights” to focus on market-tested, mechanical trading rules and knowledge;
The four rules of prudent optimization, essential for identifying the best performing variables within your formulas; Eight consistent biases that, when followed, can lead you to more reliable and profitable trades; Statistically verifiable strategies for combining – and recombining – specific indicators based on prevailing market environments;
Actual Tradestation (registered) summaries, showing in black and white which concepts worked and which didn’t, and when, and why. The back-roads of financial futures trading are littered with failed geniuses, traders who spent their days trying to outthink the markets.
Beating the Financial Futures Markets will show you how to simplify your trading program by strictly adhering, 100 percent of the time, to a focused roster of mechanical trading techniques. It will help you remove much of the difficulty from your trading day by developing a disciplined, turnkey system and letting the system do the work – leaving you to simply make trades as specified by your system, institute the necessary safeguards, and dramatically improve both your percentage of winning trades and the bottomline profitability of those winning trades.
Contents:
- The Problem with Non-Mechanical Trading
- Understanding the Numbers Game
- But Why Doesn’t Spontaneous Trading
- Close versus Closing Averages
- The Four Rules of Prudent Optimization
- Two-Day versus Five-Day Averages
- Fifty-Day Order of Extreme Highest/Lowest Closes
- Combining the First Three Basic Indicators
- Fifteen-Day High/Low Averages
- Combining All Five Indicators
- Two More Open-to-Close Biases
- Three-Day 20 Percent Support-Resistance Indicator
- The Pros and Cons of Price Targets (Featuring Another Effective System)
- Other Applications of the Two High/Low Exit Technique (Live! As It Happens!)
- On Further Optimization, Market Drift, and Virgin Data
- Index Biases —Days of the Month (Or How to Beat the Stuffings out of the Bellwether S&P Indicator)
- Intraday Day Trading Part One: The Most Significant Price in Your Arsenal
- Intraday Part Two—The Switch (Can Promising Trading Environments Be Anticipated?)
- When It Gets Extreme—What to Do after Five Closes in the Same Direction
- Another Look at N Day and an Alternative Stop Approach
- Taking On the Axioms Part One— The RSI Indicator
- Taking On the Axioms Part Two— The Reversal Day Indicator
- Potpourri—Systems as I Discover and/or Rediscover Them—In No Particular Order
- A Final Step-by-Step System Construction—The Six Signal Indicator
- Combining the Non–Either-Or Indicators
