173: Full-Time Quantitative Trader Shares His Secrets - Troy Bombardia
Full-Time Quantitative Trader Shares His Secrets
In episode 173 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, I interview quantitative trader Troy Bombardia from Sydney, Australia.
In this podcast, we talk about trading systems and thinking with the “systems mentality”.
Topics Covered In This Episode
- Who Troy Bombardia is and his background [0:59]
- How Troy came up with the idea to build systems [6:35]
- How to develop a system [8:28]
- How to make sure not to overoptimize the parameters in your trading model or system [9:53]
- What the fundamentals for Forex are [13:20]
- Where people should begin in building a system and the pitfalls that they could get into [19:11]
- Using Excel and why it’s good enough as a start [22:01]
- How to make your “moving average” better [25:19]
- What you need to do to become more confident in your system [27:44]
- His opinion on developing a system for Bitcoin [31:32]
- How good traders are able to read data on any chart at any given time [34:34]
- How Troy decides which indicators to check [38:13]
- Troy’s advice for people on setting their mindset and mentality [40:56]
DesireToTRADE Top Resources
- Desire To TRADE Forex Trader Community (free group!)
- Complete Price Action Strategy Checklist (free checklist!)
- One-Page Trading Plan (free template!)
- DesireToTRADE Academy (exclusive training program)
How To Find Troy Bombardia?
- Bull Markets
- Email: [email protected]
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