Curtis White from Beyond Backtesting joins us to discuss 3 ways traders can build better trading models, including:

• The problem with trading models and why traders struggle to incorporate predictive factors into models,
• What drives the markets and using market cognition for better trading ideas,
• Identifying and trading different markets and datasets,
• Using statistical creativity in the strategy validation process,
• Problems with Walk Forward Optimization and the 'proven winner' solution,
• Testing with different bar types, the negative impacts of being too risk averse, and much more!

Disclaimer:
Trading in the financial markets involves a substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for everyone. All content produced by Better System Trader is for informational or educational purposes only and does not constitute trading or investment advice. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.

Kyle Schultz from Algorithmic Futures joins us to discuss how to leverage volatility in your trading strategies to improve risk/reward and outperform the market, including:

• Why volatility is a key component in trading strategies,
• 3 main ways to apply volatility in trading strategies,\
• Types of volatility filters and when to use them in the strategy development process,
• Using VIX term structure as a regime filter,
• Adapting strategies to different volatility regimes,
• Mean reversion vs momentum in different volatility regimes,
• And much more!

Disclaimer:
Trading in the financial markets involves a substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for everyone. All content produced by Better System Trader is for informational or educational purposes only and does not constitute trading or investment advice. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.

Jeff Swanson from EasyLanguageMastery discusses how to avoid curve fitting your trading strategies using the "independent testing" technique, including:

• The things traders do that cause curvefitting,
• Is curvefitting a trading strategy really that bad?
• Independent testing and why you should use it when developing trading strategies,
• How to do independent testing of filters and using optimization to judge filter consistency,
• Testing combinations of filters and why you should look to remove
• Plus, types of filters to test, where to get trading ideas, how long to test a trading idea, when to switch strategies off, combining filters, tweaking a strategy and much more!

Disclaimer:
Trading in the financial markets involves a substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for everyone. All content produced by Better System Trader is for informational or educational purposes only and does not constitute trading or investment advice. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.