SQ Academy – StrategyQuant MasterClass

Course Content

Introduction — Overview and basic terminology

·        How we divide the financial markets

·        Methods of working with risk

·        Forex – Main and cross pairs

·        Indicators

·        Platforms – A Basic guide

·        The MT4 Platform

Necessary theory about strategy building

·        Where to get automatic strategies

·        How automatic strategies work

·        Backtesting and backtest quality

·        Strategy optimization

·        Overfitting or over-optimization

·        Methods of building strategies

·        Myths and facts about automatic strategies

A bit of theory about strategy building

·        A little math – bonus lesson

·        Workflow – building methods

Setting up StrategyQuant and data

·        StrategyQuant Data Manager introducing

·        Dukascopy data downloading and Cloning

·        Futures Data Downloading

·        Data Error Solving

·        Data Export and Import

·        TimeZones and UTC2

Let’s start to build strategies

·        Lets start to build strategies

·        Using genetic algorithms

·        Bonus genetic algo options for slower computers

·        Market settings

·        Trading settings

·        Building blocks settings

·        Money Management settings

·        Cross Check tests

·        Parameters and evaluation of strategies

·        Starting to build strategies and what’s going on in SQX

Strategy robustness testing

·        Introduction to robustness testing

·        Second OOS test

·        Slippage test

·        Test on another market

·        Test on a different timeframe

·        How Monte Carlo tests work

·        MC Randomize trades order exact method

·        MC Randomize trades order resampling method

·        MC Randomly skip trades

·        MC Randomize strategy parameters

·        MC Randomize history data

·        MC Randomize slippage and spread

·        Overall MC test

·        Filtering and the last OOS test

·        How to understand the source code

·        Test using 3D graphs

·        WFM – How does it work

·        WFM – Settings

·        WFM – Evaluation

·        WFM – Interpretation of the results

·        Optimization report

·        System parameters permutation

·        MAE MFE and trades on chart

·        Summary of robustness tests

·        Strategy report

Seasonal Strategies

·        Seasonal Strategies

Generating strategie for indices

·        CFDs vs Futures

·        Strategy generating for indices

·        Strategy generating for indices 2

StockPicking&CloudTrader

·        Read first

·        Introduction

·        How stockpicking strategies work

·        Strategy types

·        Creating StockPicking strategy in AlgoWizard

·        Generating StockPicking strategies

·        Deploying strategy live

·        Bonus strategies

·        E-book

Custom projects

·        Custom project for GOLD

·        Custom project for GPPJPY and CFDs