"How to build Mean Reversion trading strategies"

"How to build Mean Reversion trading strategies" - Stefan Friedrichowski

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On this episode of BST Live, Stefan Friedrichowski from JFD Bank joined us to discuss “How to build Mean Reversion trading strategies”.
Here are just some of the tips and insights you’ll discover:
● The "alarm signal" that got Stefan interested in Mean Reversion trading,
● How to determine if a market is good for Mean Reversion or not,
● How to reduce noise and increase the information content in trading charts,
● The danger of using a Mean which moves too fast,
● How the distribution of 2 bar combinations gives clues about potential trading edges,
● Adjusting the Mean length based on the timeframe of the chart,
● Stop loss vs take profit size, trading without a stop loss, degrees of freedom, statistical significance, sample size, entries, exits, and loads more.
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** Timestamps **
00:00 Warming up with some tunes
02:45 Trading background
05:14 The "alarm signal" that got Stefan interested in Mean Reversion trading
08:03 How to determine if a market is good for Mean Reversion or not
10:30 The "bricks" that can show Mean Reversion is a good trading idea
15:01 Why analyzing the market using price-based bars is better than time-based bars
19:14 How to reduce noise and increase the information content in trading charts
20:00 Selecting the size of price-based bars
22:35 How the distribution of 2 bar combinations gives hints about potential trading edges
31:39 The 3 currencies that could be the best candidates for Mean Reversion trading
32:39 2 bar combinations for the majors and the implication for trend trades
34:50 2 bar combinations over larger brick sizes
37:29 What is Mean Reversion trading
38:10 How to measure the mean and which indicator Stefan prefers
41:00 Other ways to define the "fair price" of a market
43:35 How to measure when the market has moved "too far" from the mean
46:34 Degrees of freedom in Mean Reversion example
47:25 Using volatility (ATR) to measure distance from the mean
50:34 How to optimize trading parameters
52:22 How often to reoptimize trading strategies and why
54:05 Stop loss and profit target placement
1:00:30 The danger of using a Mean which moves too fast
1:03:03 Adjusting the Mean length based on the timeframe of the chart
1:05:15 Stop loss size compared to take profit size
1:07:45 Should a trading strategy work on all pairs?
1:13:00 Filtering for absence of trend before taking a trade
1:16:30 Trading without a stop loss
1:20:15 Statistical significance, sample size and portfolios
1:25:35 How to discover more from Stefan
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Пікірлер: 52

@BetterSystemTraderPodcast 3 жыл бұрын

I throughly enjoyed this chat with Stefan, especially the techniques he uses to identify the ideal markets for Mean Reversion trading. What was your #1 takeaway? Let me know what you think in the comments below.

@Afrotechmods 3 жыл бұрын

I think this is the most informative guest you have ever had! Thank you both.

@BetterSystemTraderPodcast 3 жыл бұрын

cheers afrotech, glad you enjoyed it!

@JFDGroupLtd 3 жыл бұрын

@@BetterSystemTraderPodcast Many thanks for the compliment :)

@trinhduong7053 2 жыл бұрын

I really like this guest. He is one of the guys who actually shows some stats/numbers/researches, not just talk :)

@BetterSystemTraderPodcast 2 жыл бұрын

glad you liked Trinh!

@mohammedabualsoud8873 Жыл бұрын

It is really amazing, that i discovered mean reversion by chance and developed a trading strategy very similair to what Stefan describes, and it is the only strategy working for me!

@mcdawgzy 2 жыл бұрын

Great interview - recently starting getting into algotrading and this has got to be one of the more useful mean reversion interviews I've seen so far. Thanks for sharing!

@HitAndMissLab 11 ай бұрын

Great interview. @33:20 it doesn't mean at all that FX pairs to the right are random, because Friedrichowski only did LL and SS, not LLL & SSS, LLLL & SSSS etc. Because many of his LL's might be a part of LLL or LLLL or LLLLL if you get my drift.

@PPostbus Жыл бұрын

Amazing content. Very informative! This deserves way more views

@Xangr8 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Thank you for doing this!

@BetterSystemTraderPodcast 3 жыл бұрын

cheers Ston

@gregoryb656 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this detailed and interesting sharing

@tobagomango 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video with very valuable content, thank you!

@BetterSystemTraderPodcast 2 жыл бұрын

cheers tobago!

@rodrigoleal2065 3 жыл бұрын

You are the bests. Thank you for sharing this content.

@BetterSystemTraderPodcast 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

@lasisy 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent video...Thanks

@BetterSystemTraderPodcast 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@niceday2015 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing

@BetterSystemTraderPodcast 3 жыл бұрын

our pleasure china!

@markgamache6377 2 жыл бұрын

One of your best guests ever!

@BetterSystemTraderPodcast 2 жыл бұрын

cheers @Mark

@boogersguy6233 3 жыл бұрын

You can make the bricks visually wide to communicate time. Because it could take a long time for a given brick to form and if you are a day trader, this is important.

@johnanthonyjose468 2 жыл бұрын

Great and very valuable content! I like the brick explanation. I've been interested in the brick approach ever since I read the book of Jesse Livermore: "how to trade stocks" wherein his "record" is very similar to the brick approach. It is very surprising for me that there's a statistical perspective on bricks!

@BetterSystemTraderPodcast 2 жыл бұрын

glad you found it valuable John

@jieunboy 5 ай бұрын

Amazing content

@BetterSystemTraderPodcast 5 ай бұрын

thanks, glad you liked it!

@ahsamv1992 3 жыл бұрын

Good Interview. Have you thought about step chart it brings renko noise free movement but with time based values

@BetterSystemTraderPodcast 3 жыл бұрын

glad you liked it HA

@arfa9601 3 жыл бұрын

Great episode. I just have a little concern regarding the chart at 33:00, which shows weaker mean reversion factor in pairs like fiber and beast. I think the 0.08% change should be normalized to some appropriate measure of liquidity of pairs. One thing I noticed is that for the pairs on the left the avg spread is much closer to 0.08% as compared to avg spread for the pairs on the right. Something that enforces this issue is the fact that negative serial correlation (which is occurrence of SL or LS in this example) significantly coincides with high spread (illiquid) markets. Thanks.

@BetterSystemTraderPodcast 3 жыл бұрын

thanks for the comments Ar Fa, glad you're digging into the content

@markpescatrice9783 3 жыл бұрын

This was a very interesting episode, but I walked away more confused than informed. I just started working on mean-reversion strategies about a month ago, thanks to your series with Cesar Alvarez. The thing I did not understand was the calculation behind the chart showing which forex pairs were better for mean reversion. I can see on my own chart how AUD/NZD work well for mean reversion, but I do not how to get to the point of determining. My own experience, matching Stefan's chart, is that EUR/USD is poor for mean reverting. I think I will need to re-watch/re-listen this episode several times over for it to make sense. In any case, thank you for all of the great podcasts and now videos!

@JFDGroupLtd 3 жыл бұрын

To build that chart you have to do the following steps: 1) Create brick-candles (candles with fixed (e.g. percentage) size) for lets say the last ten years. To do that precisely, you need to start with tickdata (be aware that 10 years tickdata for 28 forex pairs are about 500GB data). 2) Count Long/Long, Short/Short, Long/Short and Short/Long combinations. 3) Combine LL with SS and SL with LS and you have exactly that chart. Since we see that for a couple of pairs we have an excess for reversals we got a good hint (argument) that trading reversals is a good idea for those pairs. If you would strictly use that observation as a complete trading set-up, you wait until a BRICK candle has finished and you would open a trade into to opposite direction (e.g. TP = brick_size - epsilon, SL = brick_size + epsilon). Be aware this extremely simple set-up might suffer to much from costs of trading, especially for smaller brick-sizes.. Therefore we need at least one additional filter => e.g. percentage price distance from an EMA.

@BetterSystemTraderPodcast 3 жыл бұрын

hey Mark, it's worth watching again, glad you're enjoying the show!

@lwazeem 2 жыл бұрын

Triangular equilibrium, order flow analysis and individual currency strength are very powerful tools to incorporate when developing Forex strategies. It's amazing what you get when you do not trade currency pairs so to speak, but you trade one currency (strongest) against the weakest. The challenge is timing, which is where order flow analysis comes in. It's never what you buy but when you buy it. Trading currencies is fascinating but very difficult because of triangular equilibrium.

@markpescatrice9783 2 жыл бұрын

@@BetterSystemTraderPodcast Thank you Andrew, yes it is worth multiple views.

@markpescatrice9783 2 жыл бұрын

@@JFDGroupLtd Thank you Stefan. I am building a mean-reversion forex system this week to feature on my site, and I was scanning all my old notes to find the chart you describe (time marker: ~25:50). You make it look magic, but it is really thoughtful analysis. Looking at NZD-CHF, it mean reverts well.

@vaibhavkamble9722 3 жыл бұрын

Is percentage in brick bars discussed in this video, % change in price from last close?

@JFDGroupLtd 3 жыл бұрын

The bricks are based on tick-data. You start at the very beginning. Let's say that the first tick has a price of 1.1 and you want to create brick-candles of 0.5%. Then you wait for next tick which is either greater than 1.1055 (1.1+0.5%) or lower then 1.0945 (1.1-0.5%). If that happens then the brick is finished and a new brick is opened.

@karunkrishna1111 3 жыл бұрын

I've been trying to find any resource on how you can mathematically transform tick data to range/percentage bars. Does anyone have a link to this logic? or point me in the right direction?

@JFDGroupLtd 3 жыл бұрын

@karunkrishna1111 3 жыл бұрын

Makes sense; so it would need to exceed the boundary for a new box to be drawn (> gt or < lt) and NOT (>= gte or

@karunkrishna1111 3 жыл бұрын

@@JFDGroupLtd Is there any major risk in using closing price of Minute Data instead? I assume you would lose details around the absolute tops and bottoms printed by the high/low of minute bars. But would this impact the analysis you've conducted?

@JFDGroupLtd 3 жыл бұрын

@@karunkrishna1111 It depends on the percentage brick size, which you have in mind. If you want to create bricks of 0.1%, your M1 data are fair enough to create those bricks. But if you want to create bricks with 0.02%, M1 data are not detailed enough. But you might do your own cross-check: if you want to create 0.1% bricks, then you might check, how many M1 candles are bigger (high-low) percentage wise than 0.1%. The lower that number the closer you are at the "real" bricks".

@edwardbenson4921 2 жыл бұрын

@@JFDGroupLtd That was an amazing interview. Thank you so much.