Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 48): 7 Steps to Building a Superior Portfolio
In our new book: The Alpha Formula: High Powered Strategies to Beat the Market with Less Risk, we go beyond just investigating trading strategies/signals and comment on some best practices in building investment portfolios. Portfolio construction is a very important topic, often overlooked by new systematic traders, and can lead to large improvements in the […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 46): Improving Your Trading With Risk Management
In this issue of the Connors Research Trader’s Journal, I’d like to share an interview with you that will make you even stronger when it comes to risk management. In 1996, Peter Bernstein wrote a book that would forever change the way many of us viewed risk, especially as it pertained to the markets. Titled […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 44): Making Money From Behavioral Missteps Made By Others, Part 1 – “Recency Bias”
New! Our new book, The Alpha Formula; Beat The Market With Significantly Less Risk is now available at www.TradingMarkets.com/alphaformula. The four most expensive words in the English language are ‘this time it’s different.” – John Templeton Recency bias is the tendency for people to more prominently recall and emphasize recent events and observations compared to […]
New Book From Larry Connors and Chris Cain, CMT – “The Alpha Formula; High Powered Strategies to Beat The Market With Less Risk “
We’re excited to announce the release of a new investment book written by Larry Connors and Chris Cain, CMT. The book, “The Alpha Formula; High Powered Strategies to Beat The Market With Less Risk “ combines… Hedge fund legend Ray Dalio’s brilliant insight into combining uncorrelated strategies… With new, minimally correlated, quantified, systematic strategies to trade […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 43): Relative Momentum with Low Vol
In this Connors Research Traders Journal, we are going to explore a strategy that combines momentum and low volatility along with a risk management/trend following overlay. This combination results in an impressive performance over the last 16 years, handily beating the S&P 500, especially when viewed from a risk-adjusted return basis. The Momentum and Low […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 42): Optimize Your Trading By Understanding Volatility Regimes
The following is an excerpt from research presented in our upcoming book “The Alpha Formula” which will be released this summer. Knowing what kind of market you are in is an important step in developing a trading strategy. Ideally, you want your strategy to be optimized for the current market – some strategies do […]
Learn Python To Develop High Performing Trading Strategies
How Programming in Python Can Improve Your Trading – listen here Spend 45 minutes with Larry Connors where he discusses how backtesting and researching in Python can make you a better trader. Class Outline Week One – You’ll gain the foundation in order to do your backtesting, research and signal generation. This foundation will lay […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 36): How Programming in Python Can Improve Your Trading Results – Part One
Dear Connors Research Traders Journal Subscriber: How Programming in Python Can Improve Your Trading Results – Part One Dear Connors Research Traders Journal Subscriber, In February, I sent out the following Connors Research Traders Journal which discusses us moving our research and programming from Amibroker to Python. We also just completed a 5-week program where we taught […]
Free Webinar – Swing Trading College 2019 and a Discussion on Current Market Conditions
The increased movement in stock prices has lead to greater opportunities. In order to take advantage of these opportunities, I will be conducting our next Swing Trading College (STC) beginning on January 16. Over 1000 traders have graduated our Swing Trading College and it remains our most popular training program. If you’d like more information […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 35): The VIX Is Above Its 200-Day Moving Average. Now What?
I’ve been publishing VIX research since 1995. At the time the VIX was fairly new, and outside of Bloomberg, there were few mainstream vendors even offering data on it. Moving ahead 24 years to today, the VIX is widely cited, has picked up the nickname “The Fear Index”, and most traders and investors follow it […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 34): New Podcast
I recently did a podcast with System Trader Show out of Europe. Jacek Lempart who did the interview asked me a number of good questions and I believe you’ll find the podcast informative. You can listen to it here: https://systemtrader.show/008 STC 2019 and a Discussion on Current Market Conditions Also, the increased movement in stock […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 32): “Momentum, Mean Reversion, and Social Media: Evidence From StockTwits and Twitter”
For the past few years, there’s been on-going interest in whether Social Media, especially Twitter, can be used to predict short-term movement in stocks. At least one fund was created that I know of (after a good first month they got very quiet), along with a number of data and software services which now provide […]