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04/08/19 August and the week ahead

August 4, 2019 by The Stop Hunter Leave a Comment

I’m back from a short summer break and ready to get stuck in to August after a positive July’s trading results.

The month starts in a bit of a mess globally, with a US interest rate cut (maybe not as large as some wanted) by the FED, inversely impacted by Trumps enthusiasm for more China tariffs and US stocks at the tail end of an interesting earnings season. On top of this it’s looking like a hard Brexit is looking more lpossible and we’re still seeing continuing troubles in the Gulf. All makes for a fun start to the month!

FX longer term currency strength strategy: Bearish: #NZD #AUD, Weak Bearish: #GBP, Neutral #EUR, Weak Bullish #USD #CAD, Bullish #JPY #CHF.

Indices: Volatility strategy: All global majors in bearish territory currently with volatility levels increasing. Seasonality strategy: bearish #SMI $GER30, bullish #bovespa, $NSDQ100

Commodities: COT strategy: $OIL $COPPER $NATGAS bearish. $PLATINUM weak bearish. $SILVER weak bullish, $GOLD bullish. Softs: #Cocoa #Cotton #Coffee bearish. Seasonality: $GOLD #Wheat bullish, $COPPER #Palladium bearish.

I will be deploying some further proactive trade and portfolio management enhancements that will make trading look more active and slightly different to the last couple of months.

Regards
Stephen

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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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…]