557: How He Builds Fully-Automated Trading Strategies (Martyn Tinsley)

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Martyn Tinsley discusses his approach to building fully-automated trading strategies and the lessons learned from his experiences.

How He Builds Fully-Automated Trading Strategies In episode 557 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, you will be listening to an interview with Martyn Tinsley of Trade Like A Machine, a seasoned algo trader who shares how he spent years building automated systems—only to realize he was making things harder than they needed to be. He breaks down the process he uses to ensure a strategy's edge is repeatable before ever risking capital in a live account. The video is also available for you to watch on YouTube. >> Watch the video recording! Topics Covered In This Episode 00:30 Introduction 00:38 What's new with Martyn Tinsley? 04:09 AI in trading 10:21 Simplicity in AI models 12:43 Avoiding overfitting in AI models 15:57 Classical algorithm trading techniques 19:35 Optimization Technique 1 25:22 Optimization Technique 2 29:46 Walk Forward Correlation technique 32:55 Possible Outcomes 40:14 Martyn's research conclusion and future direction 46:31 Where to find more info about Martyn Tinsley (links below) What did you like best in this podcast episode? Let's talk in the comments below, or join me in the Facebook group ! Desire To Trade's Top Resources DesireToTRADE Forex Trader Community…

People in this episode

Host: Etienne Crete

Guest: Martyn Tinsley

Topics covered

• automated trading strategies
• algo trading
• AI in trading
• overfitting
• optimization techniques

Keywords

• automated systems
• trading strategies
• AI models
• classical algorithm trading
• optimization techniques

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Trade Like A Machine

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