The Financial Hacker

The market changes all the time.

There are traders who became famous due to winning competitions, inventing indicators, managing large funds, or having lucky years.

By the Fourier theorem, any price curve is a mix of many long-term and short-term cycles.

Recently I got a quite unusual job: Here’s an extremely profitable strategy for the TradeStation platform.

Whenever John Ehlers writes about a new indicator, I crack it open and wire it straight into C for the Zorro platform.

Developing a successful strategy is a process with many steps, described in the Build Better Strategies article series.

Traders like charts with special bars, since they let the price curve appear smoother and more predictable as it really is.

A stock rotation system is normally a safe haven, compared to other algorithmic systems.

Oscillator-type indicators swing around the zero line.

One of the simplest form of trend trading opens positions when the price crosses its moving average, and closes or reverses them when the price crosses back.