Course Description

This session was recorded in September 2017. It is one of Thomson Reuters sponsored Trevor Neil's Technical Analysis Surgeries. These monthly webinars are free and slides are sent to attendees. This recording is for those who could not make one of the four live sessions that month. you may also like to keep a recording of the session. 

Developing and Testing Systematic Trading

Over three sessions, Trevor Neil will develop a trading system and backtest it. The objective of the sessions is for you to learn how to develop a system, optimise it and test it with a realistic expectation of it working in the future. There are many pitfalls in this process. How to have confidence that your system will be profitable in the future? Will it be robust? Trevor will use Tradesignal as his development platform. This excellent programme is now available to Eikon users via the Apps. The App integrates extremely well with your terminal. There is also a standalone version which can be fed data from you Eikon. See www.tradesignal.com/freetrial to follow along with the session. Please mention Trevor when you take your trial.

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Portfolio Manager, Teacher, author, speaker, consultant

Trevor Neil MSTA MCSI

Areas of Expertise:Technical AnalysisTraining and trader skill enhancement; seminars for banks, funds and tradersBloomberg / Thomson Reuters / Market Analyst / CQG / UpdataPractical Experience:Trevor Neil, Europe’s leading technical analysis expert, has been a trader for over 30 years and a daily user of technical analysis. He was the celebrated global head of technical analysis at Bloomberg LP for four years where he was responsible for training and technical analysis software development on the Bloomberg terminal. Prior to that he was a very successful floor trader for Merrill Lynch, a Fund Manager at T-Capital and worked on the floor of LIFFE, giving short-term technical analysis support for a large group of arbitrageurs in the Bund pit. He was a board member of The Society of Technical Analysts in London for over ten years. He managed a successful futures quoted fund for Union CAL Limited and, as a registered CTA in the US, his track record shows just one losing year between 1984 and 1998. He left Union CAL to join Bloomberg. In 2003 he moved on to set up a hedge fund in South Africa. In 2004 he founded the BETA Group, offering consultancy to banks and funds around the world, as well as seminars to banking professionals. He has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg television and has written articles published by leading financial journals. In 2003 he sold his interest in the successful hedge fund and concentrated on market timing skill consultancy for institutions. In July 2010 he started trading a new small (£18 million) hedge fund which he trades today.Today, the top investment firms and funds throughout Europe choose him to train their staff. Trevor has given in-house technical analysis trainings at most large institutions, seminars at many conferences and extensive work for Reuters. Appointments, Media and Publications Trevor has been quoted numerous times by the top financial publications and is the principal trainer and Associate Editor for The Technical Analyst Magazine. He also delivers the popular ‘Friday Technical Analysis Surgery’ on the Thomson Reuters Webex. He is a Member of the Securities Institute. He has served on the board of the STA in London and the Technical Analysis Society of South Africa. Courses: Market Timing for Financial Professionals: Essentials and Advanced Introduction to Technical Analysis Advanced Technical Analysis DeMark Indicators Market Timing for Commodities Technical Analysis for the Portfolio Manager Short Term Trading Workshop “One day with Trevor Neil beats reading ten books. Now just imagine, spending two or three days with Trevor…” Albert Klein, Euronext.Please contact our experts with your queries at [email protected] of the Society of Technical Analysts Member of the Chartered Securities Institute

Course curriculum

  • 1

    System Development - Part 1

    • Trading system Development - Part 1

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