#175: 3 under-utilized techniques to build dramatically better trading strategies - Brian Miller

Brian Miller from Optimized Trading joins us to discuss “3 under-utilized techniques to build dramatically better trading strategies”.

Here are just some of the tips you’ll discover:

• Basic market classifications most traders use (that miss the complete picture),
• Designing models for specific market classifications
• Managing trades as market classifications change,
• How to get started building multi-structured strategies,
• Matching the strategy style to the market,
• Multi-value, multi-entry strategies, and diversification,
• Adaptive money management using market classifications, plus…
• Trade frequency, trend vs mean revert, allocation, and much more.

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*** Timestamps ***
00:00 Warming up with some tunes
00:37 Welcome and introduction
02:35 Trading background, styles, and markets
05:10 Futures vs Stocks
06:53 Market classifications and sequences of events
11:46 Basic market classifications most traders use (that miss the complete picture)
14:12 Designing models for specific market classifications
15:52 Trade frequency and less frequent market classifications
20:40 Managing trades as market classifications change
23:34 Value identification and reducing the impact of randomness
27:16 How to get started building multi-structured strategies
33:45 Matching the strategy style to the market
34:36 Allocation and money management with multiple entries
37:31 A simple structure example that outperforms the S&P 500
39:49 How Brian comes up with creative trading ideas
42:23 Flock of birds vs correlation of stocks in an index
46:00 Adaptive money management using market classifications
51:00 Multi-entry strategy performance during covid
52:31 Should you use circuit breakers in strategies?
53:21 Multi-value, multi-entry strategies and diversification
54:41 How to manage entries and exits in extreme volatility
56:40 How to measure the tendency to trend or mean-revert
1:00:19 Data to use in market classification systems
1:02:07 When to cut off a failing strategy?
1:03:39 How to learn more from Brian

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