Luca Giusti – QT Lab Trading System Academy

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Luca Giusti – QT Lab Trading System Academy

The Trading System Academy is a structured training program spanning several days, which guides traders from taking their first steps in systematic trading through the writing , validation , and automation of their own trading systems, to achieving results independently and with the flexibility to choose which markets to trade on (Futures, Commodities, Stocks, Forex). Systematic Trading Academy

It is a ” live ” course that alternates CLASSROOM appointments (or CONNECTED DISTANCE in streaming) with Recordings and Coaching Classes after the course ; we have been replicating it since 2013 and every time you can re-attend it , constantly adding new in-depth material, LIVE sessions and new Trading Systems that complement those present since the first edition in 2013. trading academy italia,

A community of systematic traders has been created around the Trading System Academy program , meeting in the classroom, re-attending some of the training days, in the end-of-year workshop , and in the forums present in the rooms of each course.

✅ 20 daysof training divided into👉 10 courses,

✅ LIVE SESSION for in-depth analysis, throughout the year,

✅ more than 300 hours of in-depth video recordings and tutorials on the platforms,

✅ 32 OPEN CODE FUTURES Trading Systems,

✅ 13 OPEN CODE Trading Systems onSTOCKS,

✅ 10 OPEN CODE FOREX Trading Systems,

✅ 5 handoutson Easy Language, dozens ofManualsand thousands ofSlidesandArticles, and at the end of the course,

✅ The 18 Strategies of the WORKSHOP HALL OF FAME 🏆 – read on to find out what they are) …

you won’t find anything more complete…

We teach you A METHOD for Building and Validating your strategies, for organizing and monitoring them in Portfolios, and we do this through 20 days of immediately available training (and hundreds of hours of Webinars and Live Sessions) that make up the Trading System Academy path.

In the Do You Speak Easy Language trading course , we teach you (starting from scratch) how to code and test your trading idea . But once you’ve found something that’s worked well for the last 10 years, who’s to say it will continue to work just as well in the future?
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offers validation techniques that we can use to “stress” this strategy and measure its robustness . These analyses are aimed at identifying its weaknesses and understanding whether that trading system has a good chance of continuing to work in the future (when you start following it with real money).

And we will also work on building Trading Systems on Futures , but also on Stocks and on Foreign Exchange and FX Crosses … each market has its own specificities (which you need to know), but it DOESN’T matter which instrument you decide to work on: each course adds some more information to the overall picture.

And even if you decide to trade ONLY Futures , we’re sure you’ll find the Volatility Filters we’ll explain in our Forex Trading Day , or the Position Management options you’ll find here, very useful. You’ll also find all the discussions on building equity portfolios , how to compete with different versions of the same strategy, and Multi-Symbol Validation enlightening.

Once you have identified the most promising strategies, you can AUTOMATE THEM and discover a different way of trading: you will be able to take back YOUR TIME , without having to spend your days in front of a monitor and letting the platform enter and exit the position, based on the rules you have codified in your strategy.

Now that you have a basket of robust trading strategies, you will find yourself having to make money management and portfolio composition choices (because attacking everything is almost never the best choice, even if you had enough capital to do so).

Which Equity Control system should you use (to have a mechanical criterion that tells you when to inhibit a strategy and when to reactivate it), and how should you rotate Trading Systems within a Portfolio (to follow those that are most in tune with the market or those that are least correlated with each other) ?

It’s a bit like a football team coach ⚽️ ( Systematic Trader ) who has a wide range of players ( Trading Systems ) to choose from, but can only send 11 of them onto the pitch ( this involves the Money Management choices and the Constraints linked to the account ) and every Sunday ( the frequency on which to make a new selection and balancing of the strategies in the Portfolio ) he has to make a choice on who to play (build a Portfolio ).

And he can’t simply field the best ones because he would end up with an unbalanced team (only the trend following strategies, because maybe they are the ones in the best shape) , and not even the best ones for each sector (defense, midfield and attack – or a Rotational for Strategy Classes ) but those who play better together ( Correlations and Weights analysis ), and be ready to make substitutions if one of the players is not well ( Equity Control and Risk Constraints )

It’s a metaphor, but it can give you an idea of ​​the choices you will have to make as a Systematic Trader.

If you have understood that having some good Trading Systems at your disposal is not everything , and that the choices you have to make regardingMoney Management (in particular on the Control of Systems on Equity)and Selection and Balancing of strategies inthe Portfolio, then you are ready to take a leap in level by participating in theCourse.

Course Content (click on the arrow to expand)

Welcome to QTLab (…a few tips before you begin)

[⚠️IMPORTANT] – There are some important things I need to tell you before we get ed (2:00)

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[WEBINAR] Analysis and Trading Platforms (TradeStation, IB, Multicharts, StrategyLAB) (3:39:30)

[WEBINAR] Insights into Systematic Trading

[1° CORSO] Do You Speak Easy Language

[HANDSOUT] Easy Language Code of Strategies and Indicators (In-Depth Study)

[2nd COURSE] Automatic Trading

[3° CORSO] IntraDay Trading Systems

[4° CORSO] FX Trading Systems

[5th ​​COURSE] Mechanical Trading on Stocks

[BONUS] Modelling Trading Strategies (356:00)

[6° CORSO] Trading Systems & Money Management

[7th COURSE] Trading Systems Portfolios

[8th COURSE] Equity Control and Portfolio Rotation of Strategies

[9° CORSO] One Day with Mike Burke

[STRATEGIE] Hall of Fame del Workshop della Trading System Academy

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Start whenever you want , because the recordings of the latest editions (the teaching materials and all the open-source trading systems) are available IMMEDIATELY , and proceed at YOUR OWN pace , awaiting the next starting dates of each of the training courses that make up the program, which you can follow in the classroom or connected remotely via streaming. You will always have the new recording available from the following day, and you can re-attend each course as many times as you like (for some, it has become a way to refresh certain concepts but above all to be in a group and meet other systematic traders).

All the material is coded in Easy Language and can be used directly on the TradeStation or Multicharts platforms . If you program on other platforms , you’ll see that Easy Language coding is really simple, and it won’t take you long to convert these strategies into other languages.

During all the days of the Trading System Academy course, we explain the meaning of all the tests we perform, which can be replicated with other platforms (from MatLab to R, or on Python or any other platform you are able to program): we have chosen to perform these tests with StrategyLAB, to simplify the execution of these tests, and make them truly accessible to everyone ( “making simple what is not simple” ).
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WHAT THE COURSE INCLUDES (AND BONUSES)

1) Participationremotelyfrom your home, to all upcomingLIVE Sessions

2) Thefullrecording of the 20 days (of training that make up the Trading System Academy:you can start NOWby watchingthe recording of the previous edition, waiting for the next one starting)

3) Free re-attendanceof each course.

4) TheCourseSlidese-Booksand all theteaching materials(QTLab coursesNOTsimple recordings or “old videos”, but are something “alive“, where the teacher continuously uploadsnew material and strategies)

5) All 55 Trading Systemsin the Course (which we have been making availablein open sourceeasy language since the first edition in 2013 –if you want to know how they are doing, continue reading below)

6) AllLive Sessions(and Video archives of previous Sessions)where you will find insights and you will be able to ask the Course teacher all your questions live, including the 5 CODING PARTY evenings

7) More than 300 hoursof recorded Webinars andTutorialsto learn how to use thePathPlatforms

8) 5 handoutswith Indicators and Strategies codified(and commented)in Easy Language

9) Access to thecommunitiesreserved for students of the course

10) Access to 18 other (open-source) Strategiesfrom theAcademyWorkshops HALL OF FAME 🏆 :to find out more about them, continue reading below…but if math is anything to go by, 55 + 18 = 73 … this is the number of Trading Systems you can take home(open-source)on the Trading System Academy course, from which to build many more.trading academy Italy,

…and the platforms? best trading academy course

Both the TradeStation platform and the real-time data on the stock, futures, and forex markets are FREE , and along the way, we’ll show you how to activate an account and get the most out of it. And by enrolling in the Trading Systems Academy program, you’ll have access to:

11) A Lifetime License to the Portfolio Builder LITE Platform to analyzeTrading SystemsPortfolios

12) A 2-month license of the Strategy Builder platform , which will allow you to use allthe most modern Validation techniques(the same analyses that you will have learned to perform and interpret correctly in the Academy path),not only on the Trading Systems that we have made available to you, but also onYOURStrategies.

13) This is thebestBONUSyour child(if they’re over 18)oryour wife/husband(or partner)and follow the entire Trading System Academy program together (free of charge). You can take advantage of it right away, or attend a future edition of the program with a loved one, to grow together or to try to pass on your passion to those close to you(and in the case of your child, to teach them a trade… you never know).
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HOW MUCH DOES THE COURSE COST?

As long as you can find content of this level around, and a level of service like this, you wouldn’t pay less than 15,000 or 20,000 Euros (see WHAT this course includes and how in-depth we go, or simply count the number of Trading Systems, which we make available to you in open source and which continue to record Results that you can examine below).

Here we are not talking about some ” old video” uploaded to a site, perhaps recorded a few years ago: we are talking about a REAL training course , repeated several times a year , which you can re-attend , which you can follow in the classroom or connected from your home (via streaming), which is constantly updated with new content and insights, but which at the same time is now well-established and tested (and capable of achieving results for those who follow it ).

You can do a quick calculation and add up all the participation fees for each of the trading courses that make up the Trading System Academy path, the purchase of the Webinars, the cost of the Coaching Classes, participation in the Workshop… and even leaving aside the value of BONUSES such as the LifeTime license of the Portfolio Builder LITE platform or the Strategy Builder, you would arrive at well over 12,000 euros .

But if you’ve read this far, if you’ve read each day’s program, it means you’ve seen something good in this Trading System Academy journey , something you may not have found elsewhere and that could really make a difference.

It’s you I’m addressing right now; I want to offer you an opportunity and create the financial conditions for you to participate in the next edition of the Trading Systems Academy. By purchasing it now, all this can be yours for just:

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…that’s a 50% reduction

 

⚠️ ATTENTION ⚠️

And if in addition to this 50% discount , I also had the opportunity to

recover the participation fee in full

to your Academy path, little by little, simply by trading? 😳

YES, YOU UNDERSTOOD RIGHT : I’m talking about a

FULL REFUND 💰

of the participation fee for the entire course , without an expiry date (so it doesn’t matter if it takes you 2 months or 2 years: every month, you will see a credit until you have recovered what you spent).

You may have heard of the CASHBACK mechanism : it works the same way. By trading, you’ll get back a portion of the commissions you generate, until you reach the Academy participation fee.

…too good? YES , and in fact there is a BUT.

This opportunity to get a REFUND of $6,000 is valid ONLY ⏳ for a limited period of time : we don’t know if it will become something ” permanent ” (I’ll just tell you that the last time was on the occasion of the presentation of Luca Giusti’s book in 2015).

If this is exactly what you were looking for (and you want to take advantage of it), then don’t think twice and sign up before this window closes !
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THE REQUIREMENTS: TIME AND CAPITAL

The techniques you will learn in this course, to build, test, and validate trading systems, can be applied to any market, whether it’s futures , stocks , or forex . The capital requirements to get started are lower if you decide to trade forex on stocks (you can start with just a few thousand dollars), while if you decide to use futures contracts, to set up a trading system portfolio, you may need capital greater than $25,000 (although with micro and mini futures contracts, this threshold could be significantly reduced). trading academy Italy,

Systematic MULTIDAY Trading on daily charts does NOT necessarily require to be automated : this is the reason why, in the diagram below, you find the operations with MultiDay Trading Systems on Futures and Stocks, moved downwards (towards the area where the time required is to manually enter new orders at the end of the day , and the same level of attention required to follow IntraDay Trading Systems which instead require to be automated) is not necessary.
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THE RESULTS

On the QTLab website we periodically publish articles to report on how the Trading Systems Academy’s Strategy Portfolio is doing: there are more than 30 of them now and they are those of the Automatic Trading and IntraDay Trading Systems courses (about thirty and all open source), aggregating ONLY the portions of equity line FOLLOWING their presentation in one of these Courses (…so it is NOT about equity In Sample and Backtest, which ” always go up ” as you sometimes see presented by those who live in the fantastic world of backtests). trading academy,

This is one of the latest updates to this Portfolio (at the end of 2023) that we published in one of the latest articles, in which we give you an account of how these strategies are performing: you can find them all in this section of the Blog …

Some of these strategies have been shared with the students of this course since the first edition in 2013 , but it is since 2018 that we have also included all the strategies of the Intraday Trading System course : below you can examine how it went from 2018 to today…

This is the Forex Strategies Portfolio (this is another “historical” course but it has only recently been included in the Trading System Academy path:

here too, ONLY the equity portions of each strategy have been considered, AFTER their presentation in one of the editions of this course : if you can learn more about the characteristics of this Portfolio, read this article .

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These, however, are the results of some of the strategies of the 2-day course: Mechanical Trading on Stocks :

In the section on the right with the blue background, you can examine what happened on the Seasonal Pattern Portfolio we shared in the first edition of this course…

This is the result we kept on an Interactive Brokers account that we dedicated to following a Seasonality Portfolio on the stock market, from August 2022 to August 2023 ( 1 year ), where we recorded a growth of +46% compared to +11% on the S&P500.

This is the portfolio shared in the Seasonal Portfolio course: Seasonal Trading on the Stock Market

These are some of the previous articles , where we reported, from time to time, how these portfolios were performing:

[2023] My Top 30 Systems…

[2022] Is it the trend or is it volatility? (A trading system portfolio update)

[2021] What Weights to Assign to Your Trading Systems in Your Portfolio

[2021] The Academy Trading System Portfolio (Updated May 2021)

[2021] January 2021: Trading System Academy Portfolio Results Update

[2020] Trading the News (with 4 Trading Systems)

[2020] Measuring an Edge? A Moon Phase Trading System

[2019] Anatomy of a Wallet (Part 2)

[2019] Anatomy of a Wallet (Part 1)

[2019] 1st Quarter 2019 (Futures Portfolio Update)

[2018] A Portfolio of Futures Strategies (in 2018)

[2018] IntraDay Strategies (a preview)

[2018] 5 Strategies, 5 Years Later [Update]

[2017] Updated Equities of Automated Trading TS

[2016] 3 Trading Systems, 3 Years Later…

[2016] A 1998 Bond Futures System (in great shape!)

[2015] Breakout are in excellent health…

[2014] The Reversal on the Mini S&P500 (One Year Later…)

[2013] Automated Trading: System No. 4

[2013] Automated Trading: System No. 3

[2013] Automated Trading: System No. 2

[2013] Automated Trading: System #1

Knowing that by taking the course you’ll take home strategies that work is important, but it’s NOT the most important thing. The question you should ask yourself right now is:

…if YOU can write more that WORK

For several years, we’ve organized a weekend workshop at the end of the Trading System Academy program . This is a weekend where each student on this program can present their own trading system, one they’ve worked on in the previous weeks, showing the others how it was coded and what validation tests it passed to be able to declare it a robust strategy. Trading Academy

In the photo below, there were a few more of us than usual, but in each edition (on average) 20 students do the same thing and share their own strategy: this means that everyone arrives with 1 strategy and at the end of that weekend, goes home with 19 other strategies, built starting from different ideas, but validated according to common principles… it’s the power of sharing!
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We have started monitoring how THESE Trading Systems are doing years after their presentation in each Workshop (so I’m not talking about the 30 Trading Systems you saw above – we periodically write articles about those to show how they are doing, but YOUR Trading Systems, those created by the students of the QTLab trading academy path ).

Here you can see what happened after their presentations in the 2016-2017-2018 Workshops (to the right of the vertical red line, which indicates when the Workshop took place). Systematic Trading Academy

THESE ARE THE RESULTS OF OUR STUDENTS… 👏

So we said to ourselves: why not create a HALL OF FAME of the best strategies presented by the students of the Trading System Academy, in one of these Workshops ?
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This is how this section was born: to collect around twenty of these Trading Systems and be able to show new Academy students some of the best works ever, thus being able to indicate the direction and raise the level (and quality) of the new works presented in the next editions of the Workshop in which they will be able to take part.

This is the Portfolio we obtained by aggregating these 18 trading strategies , considering ONLY the Equity portions of each Trading System, AFTER their presentation in the respective Workshop … so no backtests or In Sample portions or interventions on the code “on the fly”: here is ONLY what happened AFTER (starting with the first 2 strategies of the 2016 workshop, to which were added another 5 from the 2017 workshop, then another 5 from the 2018 workshop, and then the 3 strategies from the 2019 workshop which this time we organized in the month of September, and finally the three strategies from the 2020 workshop which took place in January).
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73

…this is now the number of Trading Systems that we now make available to you , open source , in the Trading System Academy ( 55of ours and 18of our students, who are present here, in the Hall of Fame ).

This is also why the Trading System Academy is truly unique…

WHY IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO INVEST IN YOUR EDUCATION

There are few things that no one can ever take away from you, and one of them is Knowledge .

It’s on what you know that you build your present, and it’s on what you know that you plan your future. And it’s on Knowledge that you can leverage to change things and overcome the trials that life throws at us.

In “normal” times, we’re naturally inclined to project our current situation into the future, taking for granted things that often aren’t. The truth is that the future will always bring new challenges , and we must be ready to face them. The latest, and for some the most difficult, has been this pandemic, which is presenting us with a choice: either we change and adapt quickly, or we may find ourselves in a situation from which it will be difficult to escape.

Wouldn’t it be easier to navigate a three-month downturn in your trading if you had a suite of trading systems that were working well, or a portfolio of options strategies that consistently yielded good returns? What if this situation lasted years instead of months? What if everything never really went back to the way it was before ?

I don’t want to kid you: trading profitably isn’t something you learn overnight , but takes time and work. You might be wondering why you didn’t start a year or two ago, and how different things would be today if only you had… I don’t know your situation, but I do know one thing: I know that the second-best time to start is right NOW . Regrets are worthless: what matters are the decisions : what you decide to do now.

Because this is what we will be judged on : the decisions we make now, and how we respond to change . Learning to generate income from home , or anywhere else , reinventing yourself, is not easy, but the things you know, your knowledge, are the foundation on which to build your future. Learning to trade is one of the opportunities you have to rewrite your future: an investment you are making today, but one that will stay with you for the rest of your life. Trading system academy

WHY TAKE A TRADING COURSE?
(…BUT ISN’T READING A BOOK ENOUGH?)

Of course, if you approach Trading as a game of chance or as a “bet”, then you don’t need any special schools to learn how to lose your money… but if you approach Trading as a profession , then it is essential to choose your own teacher, someone who can guide you on a growth path that addresses not only the technical aspects (teaching you a working METHOD), but above all how to Control RISK , and how you should “stay on the market” ( Attitude ). Trading Academy

There are few professions that are learned on your own…
Why should Trading be an exception?

There’s an old saying that begins with ” those who know, do… those who don’t know, teach… ” At QTLab, every person who walks into a room does so because they’ve done (trading), do (trading) , and will continue to do (trading). And you can be sure you can rely on this person should you need support with individual coaching or if you want to receive their trades . At QTLab, we ONLY teach trading based on MECHANICAL operations, because they are the only ones that are REPLICABLE , and replicability is the first guarantee of being able to achieve the same results we achieve.
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Our classroom training courses are the result of our traders’ years of experience in the markets and their experience as speakers at seminars and leading international events. Each course edition features a dozen participants, with whom you can socialize and stay in touch (including in our Forum and in the Facebook Group reserved for our students). Above all, the class size is limited to a dozen people, creating an atmosphere where asking the instructor a question feels natural. Systematic trading

You can trade part-time , learning how to manage your savings on your own, or, rolling up your sleeves, make trading your main activity : whatever your reason for wanting to learn to trade, at QTLab we can support you on your journey. Whether it becomes your main activity or simply a part-time activity to complement your current profession, trading can be the best job in the world if done properly, or the most terrifying experience of your life if approached superficially or carelessly. Systematic Trading Academy

If you want to get serious, you’re in the right place…

The Course Teacher