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Free strategy:
Algorithmic Market Structure Trading Strategy
Description of the strategy:
A fully systematic, mean-reversion trading strategy designed to exploit temporary retracements that take place during a market trend.
Strategy uses basic logic of identifying market structure using N-day high (3 months in its swing-trading form), or daily session high/low (its daytrading form).
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This system can be traded on both daily timeframes and intraday, both manually or in a fully automated version. Traders executing this strategy manually will benefit by having fully mechanical framework to follow, successfully eliminating discretion in trading.
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For full details & description of this strategy, see my YouTube videos - part 1 and part 2, where I describe the strategy step-by-step.
Swing trading version of this strategy:
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Trades S&P500 stocks, long-only
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Maximum 10 positions held simultaneously
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50% margin used, initial capital $10,000
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In case of multiple signals, these are ranked by stock's historical volatility
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Uses additional filter based on VIX index, as explained in the video
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Buy rule, exit rule & stop-loss explained in the video
How to trade this strategy:
Day-trading:
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apply on any market including Forex
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trade both long & short - use daily high/low to identify the market structure
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use exits as described in the video
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in case of sufficient capital, split the positions in 2 parts and combine both exits
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Swing-trading:
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trade long-only on S&P500 stocks as presented in the video
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open the trades at open following the day during which the signal got generated
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start trading this strategy with no margin
Code available to download below is in Amibroker AFL format - other formats/languages not supported. Free trial of Amibroker can be downloaded from their website.
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David
David has been actively researching and trading financial markets for over 10 years. His primary focus is systematic trading of a portfolio of strategies in equity markets, with rest of his time allocated to discretionary trading of Supply & Demand.
RISK DISCLAIMER: STRATEGY PRESENTED FOR STUDY PURPOSES ONLY, NOT AS AN ACTUAL INVESTMENT ADVICE. AUTHOR OF THE STRATEGY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS FUTURE RESULTS. TRADING OF FINANCIAL MARKETS BEARS A HIGH DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY AND RISK. MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THESE RISKS BEFORE MAKING ANY TRADING DECISIONS
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