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Nov 1

Kelly Criterion for Traders: How Much Should You Risk Per Trade?

On a real 7,003-trade BTC-USD log, the growth-optimal bet makes a median 13x year and draws down 50% or more in every single path. The bet…

Kelly Criterion for Traders: How Much Should You Risk Per Trade?

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Oct 25

Trade-Sequence Monte Carlo: How Much Worse Could Your Backtest’s Drawdown Have Been?

7,003 real BTC-USD trades, reshuffled 10,000 times. The drawdown I should have planned for turned out to be nearly double the one the…

Trade-Sequence Monte Carlo: How Much Worse Could Your Backtest’s Drawdown Have Been?

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Oct 3

Spend Smarter or Spread Wider? The Two Fixes Every DCA Investor Tries Next

I gave one of them a real budget, and it vanished. I gave the other a market that never recovered, and it finally worked.

Spend Smarter or Spread Wider? The Two Fixes Every DCA Investor Tries Next

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Sep 26

Dollar Cost Averaging: Do the Clever Versions Actually Beat Buying Every Month?

I tested five DCA rules across 836 ten-year windows. The best one wins 91% of the time, by a fifth of a percentage point a year. Your start…

Dollar Cost Averaging: Do the Clever Versions Actually Beat Buying Every Month?

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Aug 29

Do These 5 Swing Trading Strategies Beat Buy and Hold?

Five setups every swing trader knows, backtested on stocks, gold, and Bitcoin. All fifteen combinations lost to simply holding the asset…

Do These 5 Swing Trading Strategies Beat Buy and Hold?

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Aug 22

Crash Test of Divergence: Does It Actually Predict Reversals?

Six oscillators, nine assets, 4,626 signals. Every single one of them, pooled across the whole universe, came back with a negative average…

Crash Test of Divergence: Does It Actually Predict Reversals?

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Aug 9

Two Weeks Later: Did the AI’s Breakout Pick Actually Hold? (Part 4)

The pick held. The screen that found it did worse than picking at random. Both things are true, and the gap between them is the most useful…

Two Weeks Later: Did the AI’s Breakout Pick Actually Hold? (Part 4)

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Jul 27

Finding Breakouts by Just Asking: A Real Screening Workflow with EODHD’s MCP Server (Part 3)

Screen the top 20 US stocks by market cap, check all 20 for a breakout, pull news on the survivors, and rank them, in one conversation. 26…

Finding Breakouts by Just Asking: A Real Screening Workflow with EODHD’s MCP Server (Part 3)

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Jul 26

What Can You Actually Ask It? Getting to Know a Stock with EODHD’s MCP Server (Part 2)

One ticker, five plain-English questions, and no code. Along the way: a screener signal that quietly doesn’t work, and an insider feed…

What Can You Actually Ask It? Getting to Know a Stock with EODHD’s MCP Server (Part 2)

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Jul 26

Connecting an AI Assistant to EODHD’s MCP Server (Part 1: Setup)

No Python this time: just plug EODHD into Claude and ask it for a live price. Five minutes, two ways to connect, and a side-by-side that…

Connecting an AI Assistant to EODHD’s MCP Server (Part 1: Setup)

Filippos Tzimopoulos

Filippos Tzimopoulos

Passionate about data, algo trading, and exploring market trends, I share insights backed by Python and real-world analysis. My blog https://www.filthegreek.com

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