The purpose of this book is not to give you the best ready-made systems, but to
show you how to go about developing your own systems a development process that eventually
and hopefully will allow you to put together a trading strategy that is a long-term work
process as opposed to a series of single, isolated decisions. From the Introduction
Trading is, by its very nature, exciting and unpredictable, and traders caught up in
the moment often venture outside their boring, predictable systems. Successful traders
soon learn, however, that the most profitable trading systems are boring and predictable,
limiting surprises as they grind out profits whenever and wherever they can.
Trading Systems and Money Management provides you with the tools you need to design,
build, and implement a trading and money management system that, while on its face
unremarkable, is consistently profitable. This practical, hands-on book explores:
- Eight popular trading systems, which together represent a broad range of concepts and
are adaptable to numerous trading styles, markets, and market situations
- Stop-loss and exit rules designed to work on all markets at all times, with strategies
for improving system performance by adding a relative-strength or trend filter
- A Dynamic Ratio Money Management regimen which combines a trader's risk tolerance with
expected market conditions as well as a chosen system's statistical characteristics
While many technical traders and, not coinciden-tally, many trading book authors would
have you believe a one-size-fits-all approach to trading is possible, Thomas Stridsman has
been around long enough to know it just doesn't work that way. So he doesn't try to dazzle
you with impressive numbers, or provide you with a magic-button system guaranteed to
transform you into a super-trader.
Instead, Stridsman's Trading Systems and Money Management prepares you for the
gut-level world of technical trading. It introduces you to eight of today's best systems,
explains the positives and negatives of each, introduces the principles of sound money
management, and then outlines how you can borrow from all of them to construct your own
trading strategy one that is based upon real trades and real markets, and greatly
increases your chances of success on every trade you place.
Thomas Stridsman is a systems researcher and designer for Rotella Capital Management, a
Chicago-based commodity trading advisor with approximately $1 billion under management. A
popular speaker at industry-related conferences and seminars, Stridsman is the author of
Trading Systems That Work and a longtime contributor to both Futures and Active Trader. He
is a native of Sweden, where he operated a Web-based financial newsletter and trading
advisory service in Stockholm and was chair of the Swedish Technical Analyst Federation
390 pages