Jack Schwager – Complete Guide to Designing and Testing Trading System & TS Code

Description

Mr. Schwager is a recognized industry expert in futures and hedge funds and the author of a number of widely acclaimed financial books. Mr. Schwager is one of the founders of Fund Seeder (FundSeeder.com), a platform designed to find undiscovered trading talent worldwide and connect unknown successful traders with sources of investment capital. Previously, Mr. Schwager was a partner in the Fortune Group (2001-2010), a London-based hedge fund advisory firm. His prior experience also includes 22 years as Director of Futures research for some of Wall Street’s leading firms, most recently Prudential Securities.

Mr. Schwager has written extensively on the futures industry and great traders in all financial markets. He is perhaps best known for his best-selling series of interviews with the greatest hedge fund managers of the last three decades: Market Wizards (1989, 2012), The New Market Wizards (1992), Stock Market Wizards (2001), Hedge Fund Market Wizards (2012), and The Little Book of Market Wizards (2014). His other books include Market Sense and Nonsense (2012), a compendium of investment misconceptions, and the three-volume series, Schwager on Futures, consisting of Fundamental Analysis (1995), Technical Analysis (1996), and Managed Trading (1996). He is also the author of Getting Started in Technical Analysis (1999), part of John Wiley’s popular Getting Started series.

In 2015, Mr. Schwager partnered with TradeShark to release a set of proprietary indicators including Trend Weight, Overbought/Oversold, Directional Weight, and Dual Trend, accompanied by a series of eight videos explaining these indicators. Click here for link to videos.

Mr. Schwager is a frequent seminar speaker and has lectured on a range of analytical topics including the characteristics of great traders, investment fallacies, hedge fund portfolios, managed accounts,  technical analysis, and trading system evaluation. He holds a BA in Economics from Brooklyn College (1970) and an MA in Economics from Brown University (1971).

Complete Guide to Designing and Testing Trading Systems

Janette: In your video series, Jack Schwager’s Complete Guide to Designing and Testing Trading Systems”, you talk about some of the pitfalls, specifically the “Super Razzle Dazzle”. What are you trying to get across?

Jack: What I was trying to say was, whether in articles about systems, ads for systems, or people giving presentations about systems, you’ll invariably find these examples of the strategy with phenomenal trading signals. It looks just great. The reason it looks great is because the example was chosen with the benefit of hindsight. […I do this on this website to convey the concepts. There are other factors, some that I am unaware of when I trade that make the trade work.. call it intuition or experience.] Every conceivable strategy can be made to look great if you choose the right example.