In our new book, The Alpha Formula – High Powered Strategies to Beat the Market with Less Risk, we show the benefits of including short-strategies in your portfolio. As a reminder, building portfolios should be based on First Principles – otherwise known as truths. These truths are: Markets Go Up Market Go Down Markets Go… [Read More]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 55): Introducing Quantopian – A Quant Trader’s Best Friend
How would you like to build trading strategies, do trading research, improve your existing strategies, plus get access to historical data including fundamental data, technical analysis tools, futures data, and more for free? How To Improve Your Trading with Quantopian There Is No Future For Traders Who Don’t Know Python – efinancialcareers.com Quantopian is a… [Read More]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 54): Increasing Your Edges With The 4-Period RSI
In two of the strategies presented in our new book, The Alpha Formula: Beat the Market with Less Risk, we utilized the popular technical indicator RSI or Relative Strength Index. Connors Research has been at the forefront of RSI research for decades. We’ve clearly shown that shorter period RSI’s, such as a 2-period or 4-period… [Read More]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 52): Making Money From The Behavioral Mistakes of Others, Part 1 – “Loss Aversion”
Why do many investors, from amateur to seasoned professionals, routinely hold onto their losing trades for too long and sell their winning trades too quickly? How does this well-known investor behavior affect market prices? How can you take advantage of this to profit in the marketplace? Keep reading to find out. In Part One of… [Read More]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 51): Lower Your Risk With Trend Following… Here’s How
How would you like to apply a simple rule which significantly reduces the risk of your portfolio? Background Trend following is one of the oldest and certainly one of the most successful investment strategies in history. Sometimes called “time series” or “absolute” momentum, trend following uses a securities own past performance to dictate positioning, looking… [Read More]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 50): A New Frontier For Trading and Investing – Combining Quantitative Analysis With Fundamental Analysis
What happens when you combine high performing quant strategies with high performing fundamental strategies? Designing trading strategies around “Quantamentals” is a rapidly growing research area in trading and finance. Today, in this issue of the Connors Research Traders Journal, we’re going to share with you an example of “quantamentals” at work. We believe you’ll like… [Read More]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 49): When Markets Panic Investors Herd Into Treasury Bonds
Here Is The Number One Reason Why You Should Always Have A Portion Of Your Portfolio In Treasuries! One of the core themes of our new book, The Alpha Formula – High Powered Strategies to Beat the Market with Less Risk, is to build an investment portfolio by attacking First Principles or objective, self-evident truths. … [Read More]
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… [Read More]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 45): How Python Made Me A Better Trader (And Can Do The Same For You)
Our new book The Alpha Formula; High Powered Strategies to Beat the Market with Less Risk is now available at https://tradingmarkets.com/alphaformula How Python Made Me A Better Trader (And Can Do The Same For You) The one thing we all have in common is every one of us is looking to improve our trading and… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
