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A systematic trading approach: 1 year, over 1000 trades, and nearly a 300% return…….

May 11, 2018 by The Stop Hunter 2 Comments

A systematic approach to trading

The FinTech arm of our business started in mid 2016, built on the foundations of many years of experience working for banks, brokers and trading houses. We take on many different assignments in this space: We design, test and build systematic trading systems and analytical tools. After initially coming up with an idea for a technical analysis based trading system, testing it on a couple of assets and getting amazing backtest results toward the end of 2016, we decided to do something a bit different and create an all encompassing systematic trading approach that we could trade for ourselves using our own money, and truly put our ideas to the test!

We decided from the outset, that once live, we’d run it for one whole year and then publish what we found. This article outlines our year of trading the system, the background to it, issues and problems we faced and most importantly, the end financial result (which is sort of given away in the title!)

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Can anyone trade the financial markets?

December 1, 2016 by The Stop Hunter Leave a Comment

If you had asked me this question 10 or 15 years ago, the answer would have been no. Trading was traditionally something that only those working on trading floors in the City of London could do. However, due to advances in technology and the vastly reduced cost of providing it, the financial markets have now become accessible to everybody. If you have access to a computer and the internet, you can open a broker account and start trading the global financial markets in under an hour. [Read more…]

This Week in the Markets 24th October 2016

October 29, 2016 by The Stop Hunter Leave a Comment

Pessimistic Bear It’s hard to find anything to get excited about at the moment, that’s not based around the same old stories: US elections, Brexit & China.

One of the more interesting stories that may influence the UK financial sector stocks over the next few weeks, is the British Banker’s Association warning that banks may relocate outside of the UK. It’s possibly just more scare mongering – we’ll see! [Read more…]

3 Line Break Charts: Calling the turn

April 6, 2016 by The Stop Hunter Leave a Comment

Calling the turn when trading any financial market is a notoriously difficult thing to achieve with any given consistency. There are thousands of different technical analysis tools and techniques that try to give you this edge. One of the best and most simple I’ve come across is the 3 Line Break chart.

What is a 3 Line Break?

The 3 line break is a very useful Japanese style chart configuration that takes out a lot of the guess work from calculating turning points in a chart. It works across all assets and most time frames. 3 Line Break charts like its cousins the Renko chart and Point and Figure chart, ignores time and only updates when prices move by a certain criteria. [Read more…]

Property Investors – Time for a rethink?

November 26, 2015 by The Stop Hunter Leave a Comment

The news yesterday, that George Osborne is imposing a 3% rise in stamp duty on all buy-to-let properties, will have an impact on property investors everywhere. The new rules, which come into force in April 2016, will mean that the stamp duty cost on a £300,000 property will rise from £5,000 to £14,000. Not great news.

This, coupled with reductions in tax relief due in 2017 and capital gains tax changes due in 2019, will make it harder and harder for property investors, who traditionally purchase buy-to-let properties as an alternative investment, to make any decent returns. [Read more…]