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]
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… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
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… [Read More]