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Sentiment Analysis with Python (Finance) – A Beginner’s Guide

Sentiment analysis in finance has become common place. In many cases, it has become ineffective as many market players understand it and have one-upped...

Lucas Liew
Dec 13, 2019 20 min read

Futures Trading Strategies Made Simple – A Complete Guide

What are the common types of futures trading strategies? Here is a list: Calendar Spreads – Spreading the same future, but of different expiration...

Lucas Liew
Dec 5, 2019 13 min read

How to get a Job in Trading and How…

The usual way to get a job in top hedge funds is to major in something technical (Quantitative Finance, Math, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics...

Lucas Liew
Sep 30, 2019 6 min read

How to Sign Up for an Interactive Brokers Paper…

Interactive Brokers (IB) is a highly regarded broker in the retail trading industry. It is known for a broad range of markets and competitive...

Jignesh Davda
Feb 7, 2020 4 min read

Interactive Brokers Python API (Native) – A Step-by-step Guide

Interactive Brokers (IB) is a trading brokerage used by professional traders and small funds. If you want to learn how to build automated trading...

Jignesh Davda
Feb 7, 2020 22 min read

How to use Hedging as a Trading Strategy

How to use hedging as a trading strategy? We use it to take on specific risks. There are 2 ways. 1) Asset-hedge: This means...

Lucas Liew
Oct 31, 2019 4 min read

Why Do I Teach and Do I Find Meaning…

Okay story time. Why do I teach We started this course in 2014. At that time, I just left my job at a trading...

Lucas Liew
Oct 27, 2019 5 min read

52 Trading Rules in 3 Minutes

On Strategy Mindset A good trader looks for opportunities in all the weird places, not just in regulated and developed markets. New, exotic and...

Lucas Liew
Oct 13, 2019 3 min read

Should I Hire an Algorithmic Trading Freelance Developer? (No,…

Should I Hire an Algorithmic Trading Freelance Developer? No you shouldn’t. It might cost a lot over the long term, is ineffective, slow and...

Lucas Liew
Oct 10, 2019 4 min read

How to Measure Trading Risks?

How to measure trading risks? Risk should be measured based on the quality of the trading decision. A good quality trading decision has a...

Lucas Liew
Oct 10, 2019 6 min read

How to Raise Capital for my Trading and How…

How to raise funds for my trading? Here are 3 ways: 1) Join a proprietary trading firm, 2) Raise from ultra high-net-worth individuals, and...

Lucas Liew
Oct 6, 2019 6 min read

What is a Good Track Record in Trading?

What is considered a good track record in trading? Making 25% per year annualized with low correlation to the market for 3 years, with...

Lucas Liew
Oct 2, 2019 4 min read

What is Algorithmic Trading and can an Individual do…

What is algorithmic trading? Algorithmic trading is the buying and selling financial assets using computers, without human intervention. It is done to exploit persistent...

Lucas Liew
Sep 1, 2019 3 min read

4 Quantitative Trading Strategies that Work in 2020

The markets are getting more sophisticated and efficient. It is almost impossible to be profitable in the long-run by running strategies that used to...

Lucas Liew
Aug 23, 2019 4 min read

What is a Walk-Forward Optimization and How to Run…

Backtesting a strategy gives you a good understanding of what happened in the past, but it does not tell the future. Fortunately, walk forward...

Lucas Liew
Aug 18, 2019 6 min read

How Much Money do You Need for Trading to…

How much money do you need for algorithmic trading? You need 20 times your yearly expenses to be a full-time trader. However, the minimum...

Lucas Liew
Jul 31, 2019 3 min read

What is Overfitting in Trading?

What is overfitting in trading? Overfitting in trading is the process of designing a trading system that adapts so closely to historical data that...