Art Collins is the author of Beating the Financial Futures Market: Combining Small Biases into Powerful Money Making Strategies. Mr Collins is also the author of When Supertraders Meet Kryptonite, perhaps the ultimate testament to the universality of losses, and Market Beaters, where Mr. Collins again interviewed renowned experts, this time on the subject of mechanical system trading. He has himself successfully developed and utilized this methodology for nearly two decades as a Chicago Board of Trade member. Mr. Collins is also a money manager, lecturer, and frequent contributor to Futures magazine. Mr. Collins can be reached at artcollins@ameritech.net
You’ve probably heard the conventional wisdom that Mondays are far and away the best performers in the stock market. Let\'s see if the numbers prove that\'s true.
Again, it's not so much the relation of the close to the previous close that's significant. It's whether or not the close was up or down relative to the opening in this mechanical trading exercise.
Art Collins continues to look at optimizing your mechanical trading. Today, he shows what happens when you use the original optimized system versus re-optimizing your system every year.
Art Collins continues to look at optimizing in individual markets in part 6 of his series on optimizing your mechanical trading. Please note a correction in the data.
Professional trader Art Collins explains a simple mechanical system that only requires two days worth of data and you do not risk holding your position overnight.
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