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

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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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Mastering the mindset of an FX trader: IG Index presentation

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Next Thursday 27th in the evening (17:45 to 21:00) I am giving a presentation at IG’s London office, as part of a larger event on FX trading. My talk is about the mindset of the FX trader. There are also two other speakers – one who will be talking about the tools you can use to better aid your trading and another giving an overview of the current market in FX. There will also be a Q&A session, the opportunity to get some strategy and trading ideas, to network with fellow traders as well as learning how MT4 could help your trading. Refreshments are provided.

The event is free to IG clients. If you’re interested you can find out more or sign up by using the following link: https://www.ig.com/uk/improve-your-trading-on-mt4

 

Chart of the day (29/03/17): GBPUSD

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Trading the financial markets
Chart of the day: GBPUSD – Welcome to Article 50 day! Ahead of any announcement, a quick look at the FX pair. Unsurprisingly weaker leading into today’s events but action probably priced in? Should though anticipate that there will be some volatility. In the longer term weekly chart still bearish / range bound between 1.27 and 1.20 at lows. This mornings 15 minute chart shows prices coming off overnight but have now gone flat and stabilising around the 1.24 level.

Property Investors – Time for a rethink?

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Houses for Property Investors

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…]

CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 74-89% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with any provider. You should consider whether you understand how CFDs work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money.