Trading Markets

Understanding Stop Orders: Part 1

Matt Radtke

The ability to place stop orders is an essential function of any trading platform. Before considering whether to use this versatile tool, it’s important to understand how it works. There are actually four major types of stop orders. Each of them can be applied to either long or short positions, but for simplicity, we’ll describe […]

How to Measure the Individual Trade Quality of Your Strategy

Matt Radtke

You are probably familiar with the Sharpe Ratio, developed by Nobel laureate William F. Sharpe to measure risk-adjusted performance for a portfolio. Portfolios with higher Sharpe Ratios deliver better risk-adjusted returns, when risk is measured by the volatility of returns from the portfolio over time. When we backtest portfolio strategies, we include the Sharpe Ratio […]

How to Improve Your Order Efficiency

Matt Radtke

Most traders have had the frustrating experience of buying a stock and then watching as the price drops over the ensuing minutes or hours. One way to alleviate this problem and increase your execution efficiency is by using TWAP or VWAP orders. Do you want to learn how to “scale-in” your trading positions like the […]

How to Select an Exit Method

Matt Radtke

Having a precise, quantified exit method is a vital factor in securing consistent returns. Learn about determining the strictness of your exits and how it applies to both trade duration and overall gains.

How to Limit Your Risk with Iron Butterflies – Part 2

Matt Radtke

In Part 1 of this series, we showed how you could limit the risk of a short straddle by turning it into an iron butterfly, i.e. buying a put option with a strike below the shared strike of the short options, and buying a call option with a strike above the short options’ strike. But […]

4 Reasons to Zealously Track Your Trading Activity

Matt Radtke

Join Senior Research Matt Radtke as he analyzes the vital reasons behind proactively tracking your personal trading history. As in the trading strategies developed by Connors Research, the more you can quantify your results, the better informed you will be.

How to Build a Trading Strategy – Part 6

To conclude our series on creating a custom trading strategy we’ll explores varying exit methods, and detail the role stop losses can play in the strategy’s overall performance. Learn about the final piece in the puzzle you’ll need to start developing your own quantified trading strategies.

How to Build a Trading Strategy – Part 5

Join Senior Research Matt Radtke for this latest installment on building a custom trading strategy, where weÆll further refine our strategy by adding additional entry filters and delve through the test results to identify the greatest performing variations.

How to Build a Trading Strategy – Part 4

For the 4th installment of our strategy creation guide, Matt Radtke explores how performance can be evaluated through a detailed look at back-testing, and begins the process of refining our strategy.