One of the simplest form of trend trading opens positions when the price crosses its moving average, and closes or reverses them when the price crosses back. In the latest TASC issue, Perry Kaufman suggested an alternative. He is using a linear regression line with an upper and lower band for trend trading. Such a band indicator can be used to trigger long or short positions when the price crosses the upper or lower band, or when it gets close. Continue reading “Trading the Channel”
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Better Strategies 4: Machine Learning
Deep Blue was the first computer that won a chess world championship. That was 1996, and it took 20 years until another program, AlphaGo, could defeat the best human Go player. Deep Blue was a model based system with hardwired chess rules. AlphaGo is a data-mining system, a deep neural network trained with thousands of Go games. Not improved hardware, but a breakthrough in software was essential for the step from beating top Chess players to beating top Go players.
In this 4th part of the mini-series we’ll look into the data mining approach for developing trading strategies. This method does not care about market mechanisms. It just scans price curves or other data sources for predictive patterns. Machine learning or “Artificial Intelligence” is not always involved in data-mining strategies. In fact the most popular – and surprisingly profitable – data mining method works without any fancy neural networks or support vector machines. Continue reading “Better Strategies 4: Machine Learning”