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Steve Roehling
Steve Roehling

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Jul 10, 2021

Turbocharge Your Performance with the Power of Observation

Outside of my day job as a software development manager, I’m a self-taught, independent systems trader. During the course of my trading education, I stumbled upon a presentation from Michail Shadkin, a professional gambler turned trader. Michail is a strong believer in “The Power of Observation”. Starting in his days…

Trading

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Trading

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Jun 21, 2019

Trading Methodology and Human Factors: An Interview with Optimus Futures

As a systems developer, one of my research interests is the development of systems for investing in and trading the financial markets. Leveraging both my engineering background and practical trading experience, I’ve developed a balanced and holistic methodology which also encompasses human factors and psychology. The following articles describe…

Trading

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Trading Methodology and Human Factors: An Interview with Optimus Futures
Trading Methodology and Human Factors: An Interview with Optimus Futures
Trading

2 min read


Jun 10, 2019

Find Your Niche by Developing Balanced and Individualized Trading Systems

My professional background is in systems development and software engineering. Over the years, I’ve gained experience writing computer simulation models, developing large-scale systems, and analyzing large data sets. When I first started trading several years ago, this engineering background gave me transferable skills to backtest and validate trading strategies. For…

Trading

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Find Your Niche by Developing Balanced and Individualized Trading Systems
Find Your Niche by Developing Balanced and Individualized Trading Systems
Trading

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May 10, 2019

10 Specific Tactics to Become a More Patient and Disciplined Trader

When I first started trading, impatience was a major problem. Fearing I’d miss out on a major price move, I’d hurriedly enter into positions which didn’t fully satisfy my trading plan’s entry criteria. Or, I’d enter a position late, and skew the risk:reward ratio against me. When volatility increased and…

Trading

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Trading

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Apr 24, 2019

Are Chart Patterns Still Relevant? One Trader’s Perspective

My first serious foray into stock trading came in 2013. I had just read William O’Neal’s excellent book, “How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times and Bad”. This book details a complete trading system called “ CANSLIM “ for trading stocks showing strong fundamentals and…

Trading

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Are Chart Patterns Still Relevant? One Trader’s Perspective
Are Chart Patterns Still Relevant? One Trader’s Perspective
Trading

10 min read


Published in Resultra - Behind the Scenes

·Apr 19, 2019

Migrating to Travis CI’s Minimal Language Configuration for Improved Parity with Development and Go Module Support

For Resultra, I recently migrated the project from Go’s dep dependency management to Go modules. The primary motivations for transitioning to modules were to allow the project to be built outside the $GOPATH and work with GitHub’s fork and pull request model. The project is currently using Go version 1.12…

Continuous Integration

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Continuous Integration

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Jan 17, 2019

A Volatility Based Oscillator Indicator for Traders

There is a frequent and definitive pattern in price movement, whereby price will steadily drift lower, then accelerate before bottoming out. Similarly, price will often steadily rise, then accelerate into a climax top. No matter what trading strategy is being used, or what type of market is being traded, it…

Trading

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A Volatility Based Oscillator Indicator for Traders
A Volatility Based Oscillator Indicator for Traders
Trading

6 min read


Nov 25, 2018

A Volatility Based Momentum Indicator for Traders

Fundamentally, trading is about analyzing the supply and demand of a security (asset which can be traded), such as stocks, commodities, or Forex pairs. A trader then makes decisions to purchase or sell these securities, ideally for a profit. When entering a trade, there are numerous factors to take into…

Trading

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A Volatility Based Momentum Indicator for Traders
A Volatility Based Momentum Indicator for Traders
Trading

5 min read


Nov 20, 2018

Use Small Position Sizes to Manage Risk and Improve Trading Psychology

I’m a private, retail trader, meaning I trade my own money for myself. Most of my money is in conservative, long-term investments, but I also have a smaller account for trading individual stocks. Trading Stocks in Strong Uptrends In my trading account, the primary strategy is long-only positions in US stocks which are experiencing strong…

Stock Market

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Stock Market

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Nov 16, 2018

Overcoming Biases Against Short Selling to Profit on Falling Stock Prices

Every trader (or investor) is familiar with long positions. Expecting the price to rise, a trader simply purchases the shares, then later sells these shares for a profit or loss. This is as simple as can be. However, stock prices can just as easily go down as they go up…

Trading

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Overcoming Biases Against Short Selling to Profit on Falling Stock Prices
Overcoming Biases Against Short Selling to Profit on Falling Stock Prices
Trading

7 min read

Steve Roehling

Steve Roehling

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Interested in systems, software, investing, trading, writing, drumming, and photography. https://sroehling.com

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