Tagged “getting-started”
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Is Algorithmic Trading Profitable?
The honest answer is that it is profitable for some participants and not most retail ones. What the question leaves out, and what the real costs are.
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Position Sizing and Risk Management Basics
Survival comes before edge. How position sizing, drawdown math, and volatility targeting decide whether an account lives long enough to matter.
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Momentum vs. Mean-Reversion, Explained
Two opposite bets about what price does next. What momentum and mean-reversion assume, the market regimes each needs, and how they fail.
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What Backtesting Is, and Why Naive Backtests Lie
A backtest is a hypothesis test against the past. The biases — lookahead, survivorship, overfitting — that make naive backtests overstate results.