Quant Mashup - Better System Trader
Interview with Andrew Gibbs [Better System Trader]
Andrew Gibbs has been involved in the financial markets since 2001 and is the founder and CEO of Halifax New Zealand. Andrew has extensive experience in all forms of equity and derivative contracts, managing millions of dollars and trading a number of markets around the world. In this episode we
- 9 years ago, 29 Nov 2015, 02:23pm -
Interview with Jay Kaeppel [Better System Trader]
Jay Kaeppel has over 25 years experience in the financial markets. He has worked as the Head Trader for a CTA and published a number of popular trading books on Futures, Options and Stock Market Seasonality. He also spent a number of years writing a weekly column titled “Kaeppel’s Corner” and
- 9 years ago, 22 Nov 2015, 12:07pm -
Interview with Thomas Stridsman [Better System Trader]
Thomas Stridsman has over 20 years experience in the financial markets. He was an editor for Futures magazine and published two books on trading system development and money management. He is now a fund manager at Alfakraft, specialising in short-term trend following strategies with a focus on
- 9 years ago, 15 Nov 2015, 12:10pm -
Interview with Laurent Bernut [Better System Trader]
Laurent Bernut was a systematic short seller with Fidelity for 8 years. His mandate was to underperform the longest bear market in modern history: Japanese equities. Prior to that, he worked in the Hedge Fund world for 5 years. He now runs an automated Forex strategy and travels the world with his
- 9 years ago, 8 Nov 2015, 02:26pm -
Highlights from Episodes 1-20 [Better System Trader]
This weeks show is going to be a little different to previous episodes. A couple of weeks ago I went back through all the guests we’ve had on the show so far and realised how very fortunate we’ve been to have so many fantastic guests on the show, sharing their knowledge and experience, some of
- 9 years ago, 25 Oct 2015, 11:49am -
Interview with Alan Clement [Better System Trader]
Alan Clement is a Certified Financial Technician, full time independent trader, quantitative trading systems designer and private investment consultant. He is also a councillor with the Australian Technical Analysts Association and contributes to the technical analysis articles for Fairfax press. In
- 9 years ago, 18 Oct 2015, 01:15pm -
Interview with David Aronson [Better System Trader]
David Aronson is a pioneer in machine learning and nonlinear trading system development and signal boosting/filtering. He is author of “Evidence Based Technical Analysis” and his most recent book “Statistically Sound Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading of Financial Instruments” is an
- 9 years ago, 11 Oct 2015, 09:33am -
Interview with Robert Carver [Better System Trader]
Robert Carver is an independent systematic trader, freelance writer and research consultant. He spent more than seven years working for AHL, one of the worlds largest systematic hedge funds. Robert was responsible for the inception of AHL's fundamental strategies group and subsequently managed
- 9 years ago, 28 Sep 2015, 04:44am -
Interview with Michael Himmel [Better System Trader]
Michael Himmel is a Founding Partner, Portfolio Manager and Director of AI Research for Essex Asset Management. He has been actively trading and designing systems since the 1980s, managing the No.1 Global Macro Hedge fund in the world in 1999. He now uses large doses of AI and Machine Learning in
- 9 years ago, 6 Sep 2015, 11:52pm -
Interview with Larry Williams [Better System Trader]
On the show this week we have Larry Williams who has been trading futures and stocks for over 50 years. In 1987 he won the world cup trading championship, turning $10,000 in to over $1.1 million in 12 months, that's a cool 11,000% return and the highest return to ever be achieved in that
- 9 years ago, 17 Aug 2015, 01:27am -
Interview with Scott Andrews [Better System Trader]
Scott Andrews is the CEO and Co-Founder of InvestiQuant. Scott has been trading full time since 2004, finding great success trading the opening gap and launching MasterTheGap.com in 2008. Scott has published over 1,500 daily gap analysis videos and his exact gap trading plan prior to the market open
- 9 years ago, 2 Aug 2015, 09:57pm -
Interview with Andreas Clenow [Better System Trader]
Andreas Clenow is a hedge fund manager who specialises in developing and trading quantitative strategies across all asset classes. He is currently a principal at ACIES Asset Management, which he joined after having successfully established his own hedge fund. Prior to his role as a hedge fund trader
- 9 years ago, 29 Jun 2015, 04:49am -
Interview with Ernest Chan [Better System Trader]
Ernie Chan is an expert in the application of statistical models and software for trading currencies, futures, and stocks. He has built and traded numerous quantitative models for investment banks and hedge funds. He is now the Managing Member of QTS Capital Management, commodity pool operator and
- 9 years ago, 21 Jun 2015, 06:13pm -
Interview with Ralph Vince [Better System Trader]
Ralph Vince is a trading systems expert who has been programming trading systems for fund managers, sovereign wealth funds and staking systems for "professional gamblers," since the early 1980's, working as a personal programmer to legendary traders like Larry Williams. He is a
- 9 years ago, 14 Jun 2015, 01:45pm -
Testing the NASDAQ/S&P500 Relative Strength Ratio [Better System Trader]
In Episode 7 of the BetterSystemTrader podcast Rob Hanna from Quantifiable Edges discusses a market behaviour where the strength of the NASDAQ often leads strength in other markets. Here is what Rob had to say: Well one indicator I like to use that I have shown on the blog years ago and it is part
- 9 years ago, 2 Jun 2015, 05:59am -
Interview with Gary Antonacci [Better System Trader]
Gary Antonacci has over 35 years experience as an investment professional focusing on underexploited investment opportunities. His award-winning research on momentum investing combines relative strength price momentum with trend following absolute momentum. He is recognized as a foremost authority
- 9 years ago, 31 May 2015, 02:43pm -
Interview with Rob Hanna [Better System Trader]
Rob Hanna has been a full-time market professional since 2001. He first began publishing his market views and research in 2003. From 2003 to 2007 his column “Rob Hanna’s Putting It All Together” could be found twice a week on TradingMarkets.com. In 2008 Rob began Quantifiable Edges and in 2012
- 9 years ago, 17 May 2015, 12:22pm -
Shorting extremes in a bear market [Better System Trader]
In Episode 7 of the podcast Rob Hanna provides an idea for shorting extremes in a bear market: I got one in bear markets that shows all right, what happens if… you sold short every 20 day high below the 200 day moving average or something like that and exited when it got back below the 20 day
- 9 years ago, 17 May 2015, 12:21pm -
Interview with Dr Howard Bandy [Better System Trader]
Dr Howard Bandy has university degrees in mathematics, physics, engineering and computer science, completing graduate studies and research in modelling and simulation, statistics and some of the early work in artificial intelligence. He has over 50 years experience in research and applications of
- 9 years ago, 10 May 2015, 01:12pm -
Interview with Kevin Davey [Better System Trader]
Kevin Davey has been developing, analyzing, testing and creating trading strategies for over 25 years, in every futures market from the e-mini S&P to crude oil to corn to cocoa. He placed in the Top 2 of the World Cup Trading Championships from 2005 – 2007 with the results: 2005 – 2nd place
- 10 years ago, 3 May 2015, 04:31pm -
Blast Buy & Hold with this simple Bollinger Band strategy [Better System Trader]
In Episode 4 of the Better System Trader podcast, Nick Radge discusses some trading ideas he’s used to create profitable systems. He mentions a Bollinger Band idea which is also published in his book Unholy Grails. Nick says: the strategy that we did test and showed very promising results was an
- 10 years ago, 27 Apr 2015, 03:16am -
[Podcast] Interview with Alvarez Quant Trading [Better System Trader]
Cesar Alvarez spent nine years as a professional market researcher for Connors Research and TradingMarkets.com. He has been at the forefront of stock market research, having developed a number of successful trading systems now used by numerous investors and fund managers in the United States and
- 10 years ago, 21 Apr 2015, 01:13pm -