Trading Systems

Growth In Trading Systems is Exponential

The trading systems industry is growing exponentially.  With baby boomers looking to be self directed, the Gen X investors who have grown up with technology in their informative years, and now our new college grads looking at developing their own systems.  It is now a requirement to own a trading system to stay competitive in the global futures, forex, and stock market.  This site has its own forum but there are thousands of boards and forums with millions of people you have access to for learning.  It sure beats the costly trial and error without the feedback you can receive from the free webinars, forums, and boards available.

A requirement when researching a trading system is the learning modules that any system development company provides.  There are many price levels of different products offered.  Just a friendly reminder, you get what you pay for. So it’s important to be thorough when researching different systems that can range from trend following to inter day scalping. It important that you look for a trading system that covers cross assets and its correlations.

Understanding Risks

Even a well-informed investor might get confused when determining whether trading is for them.  The first reaction is that “trading is too risky”.  But, is the buy and hold mentality any less risky?  A lot of the people who understood how the stock market operated would take part in what is referred to as the “buy and hold mentality”.   Investors occupied by holding for the long term  have absolutely no plan of any kind – simply selecting random opportunities that may have just an appearance of a potential successful outcome.

With global markets fully linked what appears to be long term trends are now just a fleeting from one time zone to another.   As the market rebounds Singapore may just be a selling opportunity in Tokyo or London.  Therefore more and more individuals are trying to seek intelligent methods to educate themselves and prepare themselves for less trending environments with the increasing volatile conditions for quick money making goals. Using trading system software is the solution for a structured approach to the ever increasing global market linkage.

Trading Systems Save You Time

Futures, Forex, or Stock trading systems enables you to assess investments (either long or short term) in a far more efficient manner.  Early stage investors or traders have the opportunity to abbreviate their learning curve with technology that was not available just 10 years ago.  Now that there are more market participants than ever before, the “information era” is helping to enlighten investors with more choices and their approach. Seeking forex, futures or stock trading systems should be a part of the learning process.  The trading system below is an example of an auto trading system that covers, Futures and Forex.

High Performance Trading Strategies Across Multiple Asset Classes
The RQ Trader is a quantitative model designed for specific assignments, such as to exploit short-lived trading opportunities. At the core of the strategy is an RQ proprietary code with forward-looking algorithms designed to forecast and search for potentially key price levels of the markets. The focus is to be opportunistic to the activities associated with the volatility at these critical levels. It is an alpha model therefore most effective when applied across multiple asset classes.

Steve D. Schwartz
Traders Compass, Editor in Chief