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The 5 Point Trade Quality Scoring System
Using granular metrics to rank our trades bar-by-bar to determine exactly how well each one is at capturing alpha (part 2 of the 70 Million Trade…
Aug 29, 2025 • Stuart Farmer
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164 Profitable Trading Strategies
May 27, 2025 • Stuart Farmer
Simple SeekingAlpha Rotational Strategy Beats Market by 2x
Apr 5, 2025 • Stuart Farmer
I Tested 87 Different Stop Loss Strategies - And Found the 10 You Should Always Use
Jul 2, 2025 • Stuart Farmer
How I Fused Momentum and Mean-Reversion to Achieve 20% CAGR on Liquid Stocks Since 2000
May 13, 2025 • Stuart Farmer

Trading Systems

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Tweaking Antonacci's Simple Momentum Allocation System for 3× Market Returns
Revisiting an old classic with a new twist.
Jul 23, 2025 • Stuart Farmer
69% CAGR from 20 Stocks, 1 Trade a Month and How You Can Too
Using a state-of-the-art, yet intuitive and simple system to outperform the market.
Jul 15, 2025 • Stuart Farmer
I Tuned the Radio on My Stock Returns and Discovered a 30% CAGR System
Finding success in the markets is just as easy as finding your favorite radio station.
Jun 25, 2025 • Stuart Farmer
Paper to Profit
Paper to Profit
Building trading systems and alpha from empirical evidence and research.

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Testing Your Strategy for Robustness - Part 3 (Market Stress and Panic)
Simulating chaos and pain to give your strategy the final battle test.
Apr 17, 2025 • Stuart Farmer
Testing Your Strategy for Robustness - Part 2 (Fighting Overfit)
How to defeat the demon of our scariest nightmares.
Apr 15, 2025 • Stuart Farmer
Testing Your Strategy for Robustness - Part 1 (the Basics)
Essential methods and strategies to pass your strategy from 'good on paper' to 'making good paper.'
Apr 12, 2025 • Stuart Farmer
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Research

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The 5 Point Trade Quality Scoring System
Using granular metrics to rank our trades bar-by-bar to determine exactly how well each one is at capturing alpha (part 2 of the 70 Million Trade…
Aug 29, 2025 • Stuart Farmer
The 70 Million Trade Experiment – Part 1
How exhaustive stop-loss simulations reveal the blueprint for complete trading strategies.
Aug 22, 2025 • Stuart Farmer
Mastering Abstraction So You Can Generate Infinite Profitable Strategies
Understanding this core cognitive process is the most important thing you can do to become a master quant.
Aug 4, 2025 • Stuart Farmer
100 Papers an Hour: 10x'ing Your Strategy Research Speed With AI
Batch process academic papers, glean key insights, and craft your own innovations and takeaways using basic LLM and OCR tooling.
Jul 30, 2025 • Stuart Farmer
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