Articles

How to deal with drawdown

By: Maarten  Huybrecht
Director of Trading, Tradency

6 January 2011

The best way to measure risk is the historical Maximum Draw Down (MDD). MDD is the deepest of all past draw downs. This article explains how to analyze a strategy's drawdown and how to use this information for trading.
 
What is the pause button?

By: Maarten  Huybrecht
Director of Trading, Tradency
08 December 2010

Traders using the Mirror Trading platform will now be able to control their losses by using the new ‘Pause’ option to set an approximate loss limit in each strategy in their portfolio, thus reducing their risk when trading.

 

 
Leverage

By: Maarten  Huybrecht
Director of Trading, Tradency
01 December 2010

More leverage does not equal more profit. Using the correct amount of leverage is a necessary ingredient for success. Read this article to learn what is a leverage of a mirror trading portfolio and how to use it wisely.
 
How to select strategy providers?

By: Maarten  Huybrecht
Director of Trading, Tradency
03 November 2010

Read this article to learn how to analyze the information on the Tradency platform in order to select appropriate strategies for your portfolio.
 
How to create a Portfolio of strategies?

By: Maarten  Huybrecht
Director of Trading, Tradency
24 October 2010

This article provides some basic tips for creating an effective and balanced trading portfolio.
 
What is the T-score?

By: Maarten  Huybrecht
Director of Trading, Tradency
17 October 2010

This article explains the elements of the T-Score. In addition it provides some practical tips of how to use the T-Score when choosing strategies to the portfolio.
 

Myfxbook releases a market sentiment feature

By: Oz Golan
Director of Institutional Sales

15 October 2010

Myfxbook, a rapidly growing forex analytical community, recently presented its new “community outlook” , otherwise known as market sentiment, feature to the forex market.
 
Tradency's Market Watch

By: Oz Golan
Director of Institutional Sales
8 September 2010

Japanese Brokers are taking steps to remain competitive
 
The evolution of Autotrading

By: Greg Hay
VP Business Development, Tradency
4 July 2010

This article reviews some highlights about automated trading and its evolution from the early days to the current state. This is a brief introduction into the different types of autotrading available today.