tradingautomation an introduction

tradingautomation is a blog telling our experience with the development of software systems to ensure systematic trading and automated account management by expert systems while favouring protection and growth of capital. The system relies on trading rules, and covers mechanisms enabling to identify markets, sectors or securities’ trends, to determine long / short entry signals, to handle positions sizing and management including stop policies, to care for account and money management within agreed boundaries or safety limits (e.g. draw down, etc.).

Patrice is the author of a trading method and co-owner of the TEXSOL trading expert system (Trading Expert System Online). Funds managed are known under the generic reference of COSMOS (stands for Capital Oriented Systematic Management of Speculation and is a wink to Carl Sagan's astronomical book). The approach is directional (“long” or “short” with leverage). The method designed and the system implemented enable to create custom trading universes satisfying particular objectives (e.g. sector oriented, ETF based, etc) and to handle specific accounts / funds according to specified risk profiles. The authors have been using their monies and own accounts to prove extensive back testing results over several decades on the US and French markets. TEXSOL is really a state of the art platform pushing trading automation to its limits.

Deployment of the method and technology is very flexible and can be arranged at standard industry rates and conditions, i.e. 2% fees for funds under management, and 20% incentive fees on returns exceeding previous high watermarks. Authors and technology owners are open to any deals with accredited investors in US terms (net worth > 1M$), institutions and broker dealers.

A reference portfolio of 10M USD started on Dec 20th 2004 is updated weekly at Cosmos Portfolios and let you get an understanding of the system's operations.