Smarter Trading: Improving Performance in Changing Markets – Perry J.Kaufman

Course Overview

Smarter Trading: Improving Performance in Changing Markets by Perry J.Kaufman helps you to track financial markets, volume, and price changes brought about by economic globalization and computerized trading, using technical analysis techniques such as neural networks, fuzzy logic, and expert systems.

Smarter Trading covers the structural change in stock and derivatives markets, price shocks, integration of technical and fundamental methods, testing strategies for robustness, and improving the performance of existing systems.

Course Outline

PART 1: How Changing Markets and Technology Affects Results

• 1. The Impact of Change on Markets and Trading
• 2. Assessing Market Reality
• 3. Reasonable Expectations Give Achievable Results
• 4. Risk and Return

PART 2: Using Old and New Trading Tools to Achieve Reasonable Objectives

• 5. Profit Taking
• 6. The Mixed Role of Stops for Controlling Risk
• 7. Understanding Price Shocks
• 8. Smarter Trend Following
• 9. Computer Learning, Neutral Networks, and New Technology

PART 3: Making a Trading Strategy Robust

• 10. Testing for Robustness
• 11. Improving the Performance of Existing Systems

What Will You Learn?

• Changing Factors Affecting Markets and Prices
• Technical Analysis
• Evolution and Obsolescence
• Structural Change: Seasonally
• The Evolution of Markets
• And many more

Who is This Course For?

Smarter Trading: Improving Performance in Changing Markets by Perry J.Kaufman focuses on technical-driven topics that should only be tackled by advanced traders with prior knowledge.