SetupAlpha
Professional-grade trading strategies from research to your portfolio.
We help traders and funds build robust, trading strategies/portfolios. Our strategies are crafted from academic research, live-tested, and ready to run without wasting years coding and research.
For the past three years, we've fully automated our trading strategies, managing a portfolio of over 20 diverse strategies. Before that, we operated semi-automated systems.
Save thousands of hours ⌛ we do the research, testing, and debugging so you can simply download and run.
Our RealTest trading strategies - setupalpha.com/
We’re not financial advisors and this is not financial advice.
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Reducing drawdown sounds simple:
"Just lower your position size."
But then your returns drop too and that's not really a solution is it.
This week I wrote about 4 ways to fix it without sacrificing your profits.
Full RealTest code included, check it out here.
New article in substack.
4 days ago | [YT] | 4
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Benefits of systematic trading
1. Huge time savings compared with discretionary trading.
2. Less emotional decision-making.
3. Backtested strategies are one of the best predictors of potential success.
4. It shows whether a strategy really works or whether you only think it works.
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Short Term MR (Larry Connor Style MR Strategy +10.54% (YTD)
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Right now, financial markets are not in good shape due to the war between Iran and the U.S.
This negative trend could continue for a long time because of higher gas prices and the expectation that rates will stay higher for longer, even if the war ends soon.
Thankfully, this is the best environment for mean-reversion strategies.
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Do you know what the Aroon indicator does?
Do you know how powerful it is?
Find out here, maybe it’s your next favorite indicator for systematic trading.
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The Most Dangerous Backtesting Mistakes:
1. Survivourship Bias: Ignoring delisted stocks
2. Look-ahead Bias: Using future data
3. Overfitting: Curve-fitting to history
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Most optimization time goes into exits.
The entry determines whether there's any edge to optimize.
Get the entry right first. Then touch the exit. (new substack article)
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At first, it’s discretionary.
Entries feel right… until they don’t.
Then you build a system.
Backtest it, stress/WFO it and demo/live trade it.
Now every trade has logic. Risk is defined and execution is consistent.
This is what real trading looks like.
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In 2026, the market rewards systems, not stories.
Stop trading your 'feelings' and start trading your rules.
Your edge isn't a secret indicator, it’s deffinetly the cold, systemic trading strategy.
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My strategy was featured in this article. "Weekly Algorithmic Trading Strategies | Mar. 16 - Mar. 23" (lin in the comments)
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