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What a Quant Looks for When He Reads Your Track Record Ask ten people in trading what a quant is and you'll get ten answers, most of them involving a CV. Martí Castany's is simpler. A quant, he says, is "someone who tries to find signal in the chaos." Martí started as an electrical engineer, building audio circuits and programming the chips that filter sound. At 21 a friend introduced him to trading. He traded oil futures with two friends, built rudimentary systems and quit university to keep going. He was still going after both friends had burnt o

20+ Losses in a Row: What a Trend Follower Does Next Lachlan McKie is a systematic trader based in Sydney. He has traded CFDs for around seven years, after a career in Australian gold mining, and now runs a basket of automated intraday breakout systems on US indices, gold and a little FX. Every system closes before the day ends. Earlier this year, that portfolio went through runs of 20 to 25 losing trades in a row. His response is worth studying, because it's the opposite of what most traders do. Trend following loses more often than it wins.

Manual or Algorithmic? Most Serious Traders Do Both The debate resurfaces every few months: manual trading vs algorithmic trading. Pick a side, defend it, repeat. It's the wrong framing. This isn't ideology. It's trade-offs and most experienced traders you'd actually want to learn from operate somewhere in the middle. "Manual" trading isn't fully manual A common hybrid approach: use macro context and discretion to set your directional bias, then let predefined technical rules handle execution. The system waits for the pullback. Entries and ex