How We Build Our Trading System

As we only create trading systems for banks, financial institutions, fund managers, ultra high net worth investors and brokers, we do not dictate the risk management and investment criteria. We collaborate with our client’s and we embed the risk criteria into their own version of one of ours Trading Systems.

Investment Criteria and Risk Management

Our clients instruct us on the following matters:

  • Acceptable currency pairs
  • Maximum leverage
  • Maximum cash exposure on a single currency pair
  • Maximum drawdown tolerated on a single currency pair
  • Maximum drawdown tolerated in one month of trading
These criteria will give us crucial information needed to set-up the Client’s Trading System.

System Backtesting

Once the client has dictated its investment selection and their risk criteria we combine this information to with our Algorithmic Formulas and we back test this Trading Strategy using very sophisticated portfolio analytic software.

This software will produce a report which will include precious information related to the System performance during the Test Period such as:

  • Maximum Drawdown
  • Percentage of profitable trades
  • Net profit (or loss)
  • Yearly performance with and without leverage
  • Number of trades, etc.