Today’s Connors Research Traders Journal has three informative pieces to help you improve your trading. Linda Raschke – New Book Legendary trader, and my co-author of Street Smarts, Linda Raschke has a new book out. It’s her first book since Street Smarts was published in 1995. Linda’s new book is not a strategy book…. [Read More]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 38): Here’s How We Built a Superior Strategy in Python in Under 30 Minutes (And You Can Too)
In the previous two issues of the Connors Research Traders Journal, Chris Cain and I made a compelling case why every trader should be doing their trading strategy development and research in Python on Quantopian. There are many advantages for you to program in Python including it’s faster, simpler, open source, and broadly used by… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 37): How Programming in Python Can Improve Your Trading Results – Part Two
A Message From Larry Connors Over the past 15 years, we’ve made a significant investment both in time and money into Amibroker. As a whole, this has been one of the better investments we’ve ever made. Along the way, many hundreds and likely thousands of our customers followed our lead and moved onto Amibroker, especially… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 31): New Podcast to Enhance Your Trading Results
I’d like to share with you a 45-minute interview of me done by Kirk Du Plessis and his excellent Option Alpha podcast. There were a number of topics discussed based on my new book Buy The Fear, Sell The Greed. I thought Kirk did a great job getting inside the book which quantitatively shows you where… [Read More]