Episodios

  • Looking at P&L (Your's or Some Else's) Is Toxic
    Jul 14 2025

    Looking at your P&L while you're trading is toxic. This also applies when looking at someone else's results - perhaps even more so.

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    36 m
  • Your Backtest Looks Great - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
    Jul 7 2025

    Be wary when going from backtest to live trading. You're at peak optimism, and if you're not careful, disappointment awaits.

    In this episode, we discuss all the ways a live trading can fall short of your backtest and what you can do about it.

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    53 m
  • When is your Strategy Good Enough?
    Jun 30 2025

    How to get out of backtest world and make the next steps to get your strategy live.

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    41 m
  • The Key to Backtesting: Your Library of Columns
    Jun 23 2025

    The second episode in our series on creating profitable strategies using backtesting.

    We review:

    • How most traders backtest the wrong way
    • How to add columns to your backtest
    • What columns make the most sense
    • How your "library of columns" gets more and more valuable over time
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    46 m
  • You're Probably Backtesting Wrong
    Jun 16 2025

    The first episode in a mini-series on how to create a trading strategy using backtesting.

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    44 m
  • How Real Traders Use AI to Trade
    Jun 9 2025

    We discuss Dave's recent experience using ChatGPT to create the Strategy Cruncher, a tool for optimizing your trading strategies.

    Prediction market for who will have the best AI model by the end of the year.

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    48 m
  • What Metric Should You Be Optimizing For?
    Jun 2 2025

    Every trader has an opinion on what the perfect metric is to evaluate a strategy and to optimize on.

    We discuss our favorites and why.

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    48 m
  • How Far Back Should Your Backtest Look Good?
    May 26 2025

    "If your backtest looks great for the last 3 months, why do you care what it looked like before that?"

    A trader Dave started coaching recently asked this question. The answer cuts to the core of why most traders give up on a trading strategy and end up quitting trading altogether.

    The Spurious Correlations website that was mentioned in the podcast.

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    46 m