Quant Trading
Turning discretionary chart reading into explicit rules — and testing whether those rules ever worked.
3 articles
What Is Backtesting? And Why a Good Backtest Isn't a Promise
Backtesting runs a trading rule on past data to see how it would have done. Learn what it measures, why a beautiful backtest so often fails live, and the traps — overfitting, lookahead, survivorship — that fool beginners.
Read article →From Eyeballing to Rules: How Indicators Become Quant Strategies
Every quant strategy starts as a rule, and most rules start as an indicator. Learn how RSI, MACD, and moving averages get turned into precise conditions a computer can trade — and where that translation breaks down.
Read article →What Is Quantitative Trading? And How It Differs from Reading Charts
Quantitative trading turns trading decisions into rules a computer can execute. Learn what quant actually means, how it differs from discretionary chart reading, and why both still start from the same signals.
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