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What To Do During a Trading Drawdown
In this week's episode of Line Your Own Pockets, we follow up on last week's topic of trading drawdowns and discuss concrete things you can do when you're in one. We d...
Why Drawdowns Break Traders (And How to Survive Them)
Every trader who has quit trading did so during a drawdown. In this episode of Line Your Own Pockets, we discuss this difficult topic and what you can do now to prepar...
The Best Trading Ideas We've Shared in 100 Episodes
In this week's episode of Line Your Own Pockets, we reflect on 100 episodes of the podcast. (!!) We compare the most popular episodes by downloads with those we think ...
Why Your First Trading Strategy Can Hold You Back
In this week's episode of Line Your Own Pockets, we continue the recent series on the mindset of creating new strategies.This time, we focus on branching out from your...
How to Add More Trades to Your Strategy
In this week's episode of Line Your Own Pockets, Dave shares the exact steps he took to go from 300 trades a year to 3500 by backtesting and automating his trading sys...
From One Profitable Strategy to Two
In this week's episode of Line Your Own Pockets, we take on a listener question from Emmett on how to go from one profitable strategy to two.We discuss:How most trader...
Follow Up on Interview with Garrett Drinon
On this week's episode of Line Your Own Pockets, we reflect on the recent interview with Garrett Drinon from last week.We discuss:Principles of elite performance span ...
A Better Way to Get Market Data
In this episode of Line Your Own Pockets, Dave shares two new tools to download and manage market data for backtesting and creating profitable trading strategies. Both...
How Important Are Delisted Symbols to Your Strategy?
In this week's episode of Line Your Own Pockets, we discuss the touchy subject of delisted stocks. In this "spirited" discussion, Michael and I agree on the concept of...
Create Redundancy in your Trading Business
In this week's episode of Line Your Own Pockets, we discuss adding redundancy to your trading. Outages aren't a matter of if but when.Topics include:Failures will happ...
Interview with Brandon Kaisler from Cesta Capital
In this week's episode of Line Your Own Pockets, we sit down with Brandon Kaisler of Cesta Capital, a brokerage catering to active short sellers.In a wide-ranging inte...
All About Data for Backtesting
In this week's episode of Line Your Own Pockets, we discuss market data for backtesting.Topics covered:Data for backtesting is far different (and easier) than for real...
Interview with Trent Smalley from DTN/IQFeed
In this week's episode of Line Your Own Pockets, we interview Trent Smalley with DTN and IQFeed.We discuss:Why it makes sense for traders to pay for market data when b...
Using AI Agents for Strategies Part 3
In this week's episode of Line Your Own Pockets, we continue the discussion of using AI agents for strategy creation gruntwork.Topics discussed:Delegation skills are i...
Using AI Agents for Trading Strategies Part 2
We continue last week's discussion on using Claude and OpenClaw to automate strategy creation.We touch on:How to get AI to do the grunt work so you can be the CEO of y...
Using AI Agents to Backtest Strategy Ideas
In this week's episode of Line Your Own Pockets, we discuss Michael's project for having OpenClaw create and run backtests from his list of research ideas for trading ...
Strategies for Small Accounts
We cover:Making mistakes early when they're relatively cheapFocus on scaling wide versus scaling upLearn R-multiples - it normalizes your performance as your account g...
How to Trade with a Small Account
In this week's episode of Line Your Own Pockets, we discuss trading with a small account.Topics discussed:Don't wait until you have "enough" money to start learningHow...
Curve Fitting is Easy to Avoid
If you've ever wondered if you're curve fitting with your trading strategy, this episode is for you.We discuss:Curve fitting is a continuum, not a binary yes/no condit...
How to Grow Your Column Library
Michael and I discuss how to think about improving your column library over time.We discuss:How your column library is like a shared software library: build once, reus...
Qualities that Predict a Profitable Trader
Topics discussed:Profitable traders don't follow the crowd - or any particular trading guruHealthy attitude towards trading and riskMaking great trades is the goal - i...
Should You Use Python for Backtesting?
We discuss:Python is a great general-purpose language, but that's what makes it a bad choice for backtestingIterating on your strategies is the critical piece - anythi...
Amibroker: The Adventure Continues
Topics include:Batteries Data Not Included - the best way to get data into AmibrokerThe code that adds custom columns in Amibroker is resource-intensiveQuirks with dat...
How Discretionary Traders Can Add Automated Strategies
We go over:How "visual" backtesting is not real backtestingDiscretionary traders try to replace what they're doing with automation - but that's wrongHow to create a co...
Next Steps with Amibroker
Dave continues helping Michael create a first backtest in Amibroker. You might think "backtesting is backtesting," but we cover many of the differences between RealTes...
Getting Started with Amibroker
Dave offers advice and feedback to Michael, who is learning to use Amibroker for the first time.He's coming from RealTest, so we go over the similarities and differenc...