About Course:
1.0 The Birth of Z42 – 48 minutes
- My trading journey
- “The turn” from unprofitable to consistent
- The Z42 trading system that generated 50% annual returns during the depths of the financial crisis
- Defining trading success for yourself
2.0 Matching A System To Your Objectives – 20 minutes
- Outsourcing a system
- End of Month/End of Quarter systems
- Swing trading systems
3.0 Conducting A Proper Backtest – 29 minutes
- Position sizing with “R”
- System quality number (SQN)
- How to generate performance data
- 30-30-30 Method
- Performance thresholds for going live
- Paper trading a new system
- Market categorization
3.1 Backtesting In Different Market Regimes— 55 minutes
- Using bollinger bands to define a market regime
- Adding Keltner channels to better define the regime
3.2 Inputting Data — 58 minutes
- Entering backtrades manually
- Volatility Breakout trades
- Failed Breakout trades
- Hammers/Stars trades
- Learn the relationship between stop size and position size
- I go bar by bar and show you exactly how to input data into the backtest template provided for all course takers
4.0 Failed Breakout Trading — 31 minutes
- Identifying the setup
- Russell example
- EURUSD example
- GBPJPY example
- TSLA example
4.1 Hammers and Stars Trading — 49 minutes
- Identifying the setup in trending and sideways markets
- Russell example
- SPY example
4.2 Volatility Breakout Trading — 28 minutes
- Identifying the setup
- EURUSD example
- TSLA example
- Oil example
- Apple example
- Bitcoin example
5.0 From Backtest To Live Trading — 27 minutes
- Paper Trading with 0 Errors
- Back Trading within Trading View
- Live Paper Trading
- Live Trading
5.1 Errors — 6 minutes
- Defining true errors vs trading losses
6.0 What Does Trading Success Look Like? — 15 minutes
- Matching a system to your objectives
- Determining if a system has passed a paper trading test
- Measuring success in live trading
7.0 Taking Care of The Tools — 25 minutes
- Establishing a pre trade routine
- Building a trading station
- Intraday discipline
- Committing to the process