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System Trading Approach To The Markets

In episode 248 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, I interview trader & computer scientist Evan Medeiros to talk about his trading journey and share the trading lessons he learned along the way.

Evan is the founder of The Trade Risk, a financial media company that publishes research and analysis about the stock market and specializes in trading education. With 20+ years of coding experience and a B.S. in computer science, Evan brings a systematic discipline to investing in the stock market.

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In This Episode, You'll Learn...

• Who is Evan Medeiros and how he started to trade 00:29
• How Evan started trading stocks and got lucky 03:34
• What you need to do to go from losing to consistently profitable in trading 06:31
• What does a poker trader need to be able to move from poker to trading 09:18
• Why did Evan switch from being a discretionary to a systematic trader 11:26
• On the importance of the continuous improvement process 14:41
• Should a trader create their system and their strategies separately or jointly? 15:34
• What are the biggest mistakes traders do when creating or looking for systems 17:22
• What is better, really aggressive or really conservative trading 20:11
• What is the optimal number of systems for a trader to have 22:13
• How much time does it take for Evan to create and implement a new system 23:53
• How to validate the correlation between systems 25:25
• Should traders move to be more systematic traders or hybrid 27:04
• How should you approach systematic trading 30:20
• What does Evan do and offer for traders 31:15
• What are the most useful programming languages for traders 32:40
• Where can you find Evan Medeiros 35:20
• What is there in Evan's future 36:08
• Evan Medeiros top piece of advice for traders 37:27
• And much more!

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