Beginner’s Guide To Building Trading Systems

A Course by Nick Radge & Zach Radge

Are you ready to elevate your trading skills and achieve trading independence? Beginner’s Guide to Building Trading Systems equips you with the essential skills and knowledge necessary to develop your own trading systems.

In this course you will learn how to design, build, backtest, stress test, validate, and fine-tune trading systems tailored for your personality, schedule, risk appetite, and lifestyle.

You will be guided through the fundamental theory and provided with practical tools to develop algorithmic trading strategies. Using RealTest‘s simple and user-friendly coding language, you will learn how to write powerful trading strategies and demonstrate thorough testing techniques to enhance your confidence in both your trading systems and your abilities.

Why is this course ideal for you? Here’s why:

Take Control of Your Trading: If you aspire to trade independently and break free from relying on advisors, this course empowers you to do just that. You’ll gain the skills needed to become a self-reliant trader with the ability to make informed decisions based on your own trading systems.
Tailor Your Trading Experience: Everyone has different lifestyles, schedules, and goals. The course emphasizes customization, enabling you to tailor your trading experience to fit your unique circumstances and preferences.
Build a Solid Foundation: Whether you’re a beginner or have some trading knowledge, this course provides a solid foundation on which to build your systematic trading portfolio. You’ll learn the essential principles and techniques necessary to construct robust trading systems.
Unbiased and Unemotional Trading: Trading systems offer the advantage of providing unbiased and unemotional trading signals. You’ll be guided to develop systems that remove emotional biases, enabling you to make rational and disciplined trading decisions.
Analytical Mindset: This course is designed for individuals with an analytical mindset who are willing to delve into investigation and experimentation to achieve their trading goals. If you possess an innate curiosity and a drive to test your ideas, this course is perfect for you.
Crush Biases: The course equips you with the knowledge to recognize and overcome common pitfalls that systematic traders, regardless of their experience level, often fall victim to.

The course is delivered online via a learning management system and laid out to take you step-by-step through the process of developing a system. The majority of the course is delivered via text, as we believe this is the best way to learn content of this form, and allows you to best revisit content as necessary while developing your own system.

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Course Contents

Below is the table of contents to aid in your decision.

001.1 – IMPORTANT INFORMATION

001.2 – COURSE INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION TO TRADING SYSTEMS

002.1 – WHAT IS A TRADING SYSTEM

002.2 – TYPES OF MARKET SYSTEMS

002.3 – TYPES OF TRADING STRATEGIES

SYSTEM BIASES AND ERRORS

003.1 – ROBUSTNESS

003.2 – A SUMMARY OF BIASES

003.3 – HINDSIGHT BIAS

003.4 – DATA MINING AND CURVE FITTING

003.5 – SURVIVORSHIP BIAS

003.6 – SAMPLE BIAS

003.7 – SELECTION BIAS

003.8 – TIME PERIOD BIASES

GETTING STARTED

004.1 – INTRODUCTION TO REALTEST SOFTWARE

004.2 – DATA AND SCRIPT SECTION: IMPORT

004.3 – IMPORTING SYMBOLS AND NORGATE DEFAULT WATCHLISTS

004.4 – CREATING AND IMPORTING NORGATE DYNAMIC WATCHLISTS

STRATEGY FOUNDATIONS

005.1 – SCRIPT SECTION: DATA

005.2 – PRICE AND LIQUIDITY FILTERS

005.3 – MARKET ENVIRONMENTS AND REGIME FILTERS

005.4 – SCRIPT SECTION: STRATEGY

005.5 – RANKING

005.6 – TRADING RULES AND SETUP

BUILDING A STRATEGY FROM START TO FINISH

006.1 – THE KEY IDEA

006.2 – UNIVERSE, LIQUIDITY AND TREND DEFINITION

006.3 – KELTNER BAND SETUP

006.4 – ENTRY, EXIT, RANKING AND POSITION SIZING

TESTING, PERFORMANCE METRICS AND ASSESSMENT

007.1 – INTRODUCTION TO TESTING

007.2 – THE BASICS OF TESTING

007.3 – BASIC PERFORMANCE METRICS

007.4 – IN SAMPLE vs OUT OF SAMPLE TESTING

007.5 – CROSS UNIVERSE VALIDATION

007.6 – CROSS MARKET VALIDATION

007.7 – SAMPLE STRATEGY – IN SAMPLE PERFORMANCE

007.8 – SAMPLE STRATEGY – OUT OF SAMPLE PERFORMANCE #1

007.9 – SAMPLE STRATEGY – OUT OF SAMPLE PERFORMANCE #2

STRESS TESTING

008.1 – INTRODUCTION TO STRESS TESTING

008.2 – SINGLE RUN BACKTEST vs MONTE CARLO

008.3 – PARAMETER STABILITY

008.4 – ROLLING WINDOW ANALYSIS

008.5 – LOOKING INSIDE YOUR STRATEGY

008.6 – IS MY STRATEGY BROKEN?

008.7 – TUNING A STRATEGY

BUILDING YOUR OWN STRATEGY

009.1 – DESIGNING YOUR OWN STRATEGY

009.2 – HOW TO DESIGN A STRATEGY

009.3 – WHERE TO FIND IDEAS

009.4 – PERSONALISING A STRATEGY

009.5 – MIND MAPS AND STRATEGY IDEAS

AUTOMATION

010.1 – INTRODUCTION TO AUTOMATION

010.2 – PARTIAL AUTOMATION

010.3 – SCRIPT SECTION: ORDER SETTINGS

010.4 – CREATING A POWERSHELL SCRIPT

010.5 – SCHEDULING

010.6 – NOTIFICATIONS

010.7 – A FULLY AUTOMATED SYSTEM

FURTHER RESOURCES

011.1 – WHERE TO FROM HERE?

011.2 – LIFE BEYOND THE COURSE

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