Recent content by Tamsin

Yep - agreed - be consistent in your approach and if your approach is right you will never have consistent profitability i.e. 70% winning trades - 11 winning months per year, etc - any strategy with any hope of lasting will usually have a 50% draw down at some point, be right 30% of the time and...

In my humble opinion there is only one way forward and that is to stick the approaches that have an edge one of them is trend following - very few can do it because they cannot sit through lengthy draw downs - but it is still just about the most successful strategy in history - otherwise develop...

Robustness is defined as something that will survive when you make underlying errors in its design i.e. even with changed parameters it still works. Also if you make errors in your judgement about the underlying data used in that system - the system still works so for example over 30 years a...

I always see lots of discussion on this forum about consistency - whether it be consistent systems, trading methodologies, etc the simple facts [ not an opinion] are that if you look at the most successful traders and investment managers in history [ i.e. a track record of at least 20 years...