The first episode in a mini-series on how to create a trading strategy using backtesting.

We discuss Dave's recent experience using ChatGPT to create the Strategy Cruncher, a tool for optimizing your trading strategies.

Prediction market for who will have the best AI model by the end of the year.

Every trader has an opinion on what the perfect metric is to evaluate a strategy and to optimize on.

We discuss our favorites and why.

"If your backtest looks great for the last 3 months, why do you care what it looked like before that?"

A trader Dave started coaching recently asked this question. The answer cuts to the core of why most traders give up on a trading strategy and end up quitting trading altogether.

The Spurious Correlations website that was mentioned in the podcast.

You've got a lot of ideas, each requiring a certain amount of work. How do you decide what trading ideas are likely to pan out?

• Improving an existing strategy
• Creating a new strategy
• Related workflow tasks

The ICE Method

We discuss the most common objections traders have to using automation and how to get over the hump.

A follow-up on our previous interview with Jared Tendler where we go deeper into:

• the role of optimism in trading
• poker and trading
• learning from top performers in non-trading fields

A chart of earnings season:
https://www.davemabe.com/earnings-season/

This week, we interviewed Jared Tendler, a mental coach for traders, poker players, and golfers. Jared has written several books, including The Mental Game of Trading.

This was a wide-ranging interview where we discussed:

• The mental side of systematic trading
• How poker and trading are similar and different
• What traders can learn from top performers in other fields

Find more info about Jared on his website: https://jaredtendler.com/