188: “Why trading can be so challenging (and what to do about it)” – Adam Grimes

Better System Trader

Adam Grimes from Talon Advisors discusses why trading can be so challenging and what to do about it, including:

• Why it can be so hard to learn from the markets,
• The dangers of doing stupid things in the markets that generate a good outcome,
• Random price movements and finding more predictable moments,
• Why having success outside of the markets doesn’t guarantee you’ll be a good trader,
• Trading psychology and interacting with randomness,
• Adapting to uncertainty and mispricing risk,
• Deliberate practise, Algo vs discretionary trading, when to stop trading a system, new events, out of sample date, how far to backtest and forward test before going live and much more.

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