211 episodes

If you’re looking for inspiration, motivation and practical advice on improving your trading results, Better System Trader delivers every fortnight. Each episode brings you an expert trader who shares their own story, along with the steps, both good and bad, that they've taken on their path to success. With a focus on actionable insights, the tips and tricks used by the experts contain loads of value, providing you with insanely practical tips and tools you can start using TODAY. Improve your trading with Better System Trader.

Better System Trader Andrew Swanscott chats with professional traders Larry Williams, Ernest Cha

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If you’re looking for inspiration, motivation and practical advice on improving your trading results, Better System Trader delivers every fortnight. Each episode brings you an expert trader who shares their own story, along with the steps, both good and bad, that they've taken on their path to success. With a focus on actionable insights, the tips and tricks used by the experts contain loads of value, providing you with insanely practical tips and tools you can start using TODAY. Improve your trading with Better System Trader.

    How do successful traders make better decisions?

    How do successful traders make better decisions?

    How can traders make better decisions to improve their trading results?
     
    In this episode, Matt Zimberg from Optimus Futures joins me to discuss decision making, what traders do wrong and how to be a more successful trader (and person) by making better trading decisions.
     
    Here are some of the topics we discuss:


    The importance of decision-making in trading, Common mistakes traders make, How traders underestimate “the game of trading”, Filtering out bad trading information and training your brain to make good decisions, The importance of learning about things outside the market, The 3 main goals of successful traders, Fear and euphoria, Contrarian trading, people who shouldn’t trade, and much more.

    • 1 hr 7 min
    Using "Big Picture" Analysis to Guide Trading Decisions - Brent Penfold

    Using "Big Picture" Analysis to Guide Trading Decisions - Brent Penfold

    Are you looking for unique ways to use “Big Picture” analysis to guide your trading decisions? In this episode, Brent Penfold from indextrader.com.au joins me to share some interesting (and effective) techniques he uses to determine the big picture to guide trading and investing decisions, including:
     
    Why the big picture is so important in trading, How technical analysis can fool traders, What are fractals and why they matter, Validating market reactions to specific levels, The Market Ladder that projects support and resistance levels, Using fractals to see the big picture and the simplest fractal pattern there is, Pivot points over multiple timeframes and market expectations around pivots, Examples of market reactions to pivot points, Is it safe to get back into the market? Fractals and pivot points on non-index markets, Dynamic pivot points vs static pivot points, Robustness in old trading ideas, And much more!

    • 1 hr 7 min
    Indicators vs Price Action - Which is King?

    Indicators vs Price Action - Which is King?

    Which is better for trading strategies - Indicators or Price Action? In this episode, Scott Welsh from scottwelshstrategies.com joins me to answer this eternal question. Here are some of the topics we discuss:
    Strange things that have impacted the markets this year, The value of reviewing simple strategies, Expectations traders have of trading strategies, Choosing the right trading style for a market, How to determine which markets trend the most, Old trading strategies that continue to do very well, How to manufacture “lucky” trading, Tracking dozens of old strategies, Identify strategy failure, The recent performance simple trading strategies, Plus much more!  
     

    • 56 min
    207: Preparing for a new trading year

    207: Preparing for a new trading year

    3 amazing guests join us to discuss trading insights of the past year and how to prepare for a HUGE trading year ahead, including:
    Getting better as a strategy builder, Challenges building short index strategies, Switching between old and new strategies, Timeframes for short-term trading strategies, Scaling out in volatile sideways markets, When the next bear market will begin and the transition from Bull to Bear, Trend following over the last few months, "V" price movements in the markets, Stop & Reverse and small stops in crazy markets, Plus doing more of what works, old strategies that do well, algorithmic short selling and much more.

    • 1 hr 33 min
    206: “Systematic Crypto” – Adrian Reid

    206: “Systematic Crypto” – Adrian Reid

    Adrian Reid from Enlightened Stock Trading joins us to discuss systematic crypto trading, including:
    Why traders should consider the crypto markets right now, The mistakes most traders make with crypto, Choosing the best exchanges, data and software for crypto trading, Why buy and old is a bad approach to crypto and what you should do instead, The types of strategies that work in the crypto markets right now, The 3 types of risk in the crypto space (and how to reduce them), How to overcome limitations in crypto data, plus Regime filters, optimization, stop losses, backtesting, robustness, auto trading, price behaviour and much more.

    • 58 min
    205: “Simple strategies, stable results.” – David Stendahl

    205: “Simple strategies, stable results.” – David Stendahl

    David Stendahl from SignalTradingGroup joins us to discuss techniques traders can use to achieve more stable results, including:
    Why it's good to understand a systems logic and will simple systems continue to work, How to apply adaptive logic to simple systems, Mistakes traders make using seasonals, How "seasonal depth" can identify when a market is likely to make a big move, Using environmental overlays to adjust position sizing, Using VIX to switch strategies on/off, Plus, we discuss which is better: diversification of systems or markets?

    • 1 hr

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59 Ratings

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