Risk warning CFDs are complex instruments. 74–89% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs.

Module 12 — Strategy and System Development

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About Course

Module 12 has 25 lessons on turning ideas into explicit, testable rules. Sources: the course library (Schabacker on trading tactics, Douglas on probabilistic edges, Lefèvre, and the Bookey summary of Jim Brown’s Forex Trading as a worked example of a published rule-based method), plus research on momentum (Modules 6–7) and on overfitting and data mining (Bailey, Borwein, López de Prado and Zhu, 2014; Harvey, Liu and Zhu, 2016).

Level: Advanced · Before this: Modules 6–11.

Course Content

Part 1 — Defining a strategy

  • Lesson 12.1 — Strategy vs system
  • Lesson 12.2 — What every complete strategy must define
  • Lesson 12.3 — Writing rules objectively
  • Lesson 12.4 — What an “edge” is, and where retail traders might find one
  • Lesson 12.5 — Documenting a setup
  • Lesson 12.6 — The rules-based trading plan
  • Lesson 12.7 — When not to trade

Part 2 — Strategy types (rule templates)
Each template below is a starting point for testing, not a recommendation or a proven system.

Part 3 — Regimes, robustness and optimisation

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