Systematic Trading Archives

Approaches To Trading

Nick Radge on Approahes to Trading Nick Radge, also known as The Chartist will share a little background about his approach to trading. These days, I run three different portfolios. My largest portfolio of my largest exposure to the market is a pure trend following strategy. I use to trade a trend following strategy back […]

Growth Portfolio and Stops

Does the Growth Portfolio Use Stops? In short, yes, the strategy uses stops. The exact stop is not disclosed but it utilises information from both the trend of the individual share and also the trend of the broader market. However, the stop is not placed in the market for a number of reasons; our research […]

What is the hardest part of trading?

Nick Radge: I’ve been trading since 1985. I’m a trend trader. I trade three different trend following systems. I’ve done it all my life. I’ll continue to do it for the rest of my life. I was teaching my children how to do it as well but they stopped listening to me when they became […]

How You Can Avoid Making the Same Mistake I did

If I could have you do one thing differently to me, this would be it. I’ve fallen in the trap and I warn people constantly. You MUST stick to your trading strategy. The beginner’s cycle happens to everybody. It’s happened to me. I’ve certainly had strategies, and then doubted them, and gone off on a […]

Best Trading Resources

What is the one trading resource you couldn’t live without? I would say there are 2 trading resources that I couldn’t live without. The first would be the ability to back test our strategies. I am the kind of person that needs to understand what the strategy is and why it works (or doesn’t). I […]

Successful Traders – Trading for the Long Term

What do you think is the no. 1 reason some people are successful traders and others aren’t? I think people don’t understand that success is not a linear journey. Trading is not something that’s going to make you money every day, every week, every month, every year. Nothing is that simple and if it was, […]

What is your trading routine?

What does a typical day in the life of Nick Radge look like? What does your daily trading routine look like? I’m a little bit different to other professional traders. I’m what’s called an end of day trader, which means I download my data at the end of each day. I run my strategies, place […]

What is a Trading Strategy?

A trading strategy is a set of rules by which you trade the stock market. Your trading strategy defines how you trade. Nick Radge, The Chartist discusses his trading strategies. My core strategy in the Australian share market is a trend following model. It’s a breakout model, which means we buy strength, sell weakness. It […]

How does Your Trading Strategy Make Money?

Do you have to know why your strategy makes money? Is there a point when you’ve got to step back and say this isn’t working? You’ve got to firstly and foremost, before you even start trading, understand why your strategy will make money. Okay, that’s the key right there. If you don’t know why your […]

How to control losses

How do you ensure that it is only a small amount of money you are going to lose? Have you got your stop losses in order before you enter the market? Everything we do is planned in advance, and that planning comes in the format of some kind of a formula, or mathematical equation. So […]