Trading is a difficult business, making a career of it even more so. In this episode, Ali Saif (@integracore2) Martyn Tinsley (@TradeSignalMachine), the Trader behind the WFJ, TRO and OOP trading strategies (DARWINs), shed light on the reasons that lead to well-intentioned traders developing false expectations (and what to do about them!).Learn how…

What if you could have your very own Trading API, one you could use easily, modify, extend and more to suit YOUR needs? DWX Connect makes this possible!It enables algorithmic traders to:- write trading strategies in any programming language, - seamlessly link them to Darwinex, - allow Darwinex to turn them into investable assets anyone can buy and …

Financial Trading needs to be treated like any other business, with discipline, adequate ongoing R&D to maintain your edge, employing sensible and consistent risk. In today's episode, Roman shares his experience on some of the most common views traders have of risk and trading as a business in general, and how they ultimately affect traders' odds o…

Both discretionary (manual) and algorithmic trading have their pros and cons. Which is right for you and why?In this episode, we discuss precisely this and more!Learn how Darwinex empowers Traders:https://www.darwinex.com/?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_medium=podcast-description-above-fold&utm_content=one-trader-to-another-podcast-roman-ep2The Alpha Te…

The Alpha Team at Darwinex is composed of retail traders just like you, individuals who’ve navigated through many a backtest and trading strategy, style, news release, economic crisis, and traded most financial asset classes.Their trading histories are publicly available for anyone to see on the DARWIN Exchange, verified and certified by Darwinex.L…

Behind every financial trader is a human being with a story. It's this story that defines how they evolved over time, what events brought them to the world of financial trading, what choices they made and why.In this episode, we ask Martyn Tinsley, the Trader behind the WFJ, TRO and OOP trading strategies (DARWINs), to tell us his!Learn how Darwine…

With the year coming to an end and Brexit coming into force on January 1st 2021, we would like to remind you that Darwinex is Brexit ready. Here are some updates for both existing and new customers. Please note that these will be relevant only in the case of a no-deal Brexit.No-deal Brexit for existing EU customersWhat changes in your relationship …

In this episode, we sit down with Narciso Vega, the architect behind DARWIN $ZVQ on the DARWIN Exchange: https://www.darwinex.com/invest/ZVQWith a primarily institutional background, Narciso sheds light on the inner workings and methodology behind his team's R&D that's contributed to maintaining one of the longest trading track records at Darwinex.…

In this podcast, Darwinex CEO Juan Colón sheds light on the whats, whens, whys and hows of the Darwinex <> Interactive Brokers Integration.Specifically, he talks about:1) Exactly what the scope of the "integration" is, as regards Darwinex and Interactive Brokers2) What motivated the decision to go down this road3) Who is Darwinex's core target audi…

In this latest podcast episode, we sit down with Alberto Barea and Sergi Sanchez, the Providers behind DARWIN SYO: https://www.darwinex.com/darwin/SYOThe conversation looks behind the scenes, Alberto and Sergi kindly sharing insights regarding their company’s history, their Trading R&D process, and how SYO has evolved over time.In particular, they …

Javier Colón explains the impact of the new D-Score on key Darwinex assets such as the Darwinia competition and Rebates.He also explains how Darwinex makes proprietary capital allocation decisions, what factors influence the same, and the challenges Darwinex faces in deploying company capital vs those faced by individual investors.…

Javier Colón sheds light on where the new D-Score leaves existing Investment Attributes at Darwinex.Specifically, he sheds light on the Performance attribute's future, given the correlation to the new D-Score as a result of the latter's formulation via a DARWIN's Quote.Av Darwinex

Javier Colón shares his experiences with DARWIN portfolio creation, his considerations, investment criteria etc.He states that these findings are in no way the ONLY ways to construct DARWIN portfolios, and encourages the audience and the wider community to leverage the DARWIN API to improve upon the New D-Score, create their own if they so wish!…

Considerations, logic and specific details around the calculation of the new D-Score.Av Darwinex

Javier Colón shares what Darwinex has learned through time and over various iterations of the D-Score that have lead to its current state as deployed on the Investor Platform.He sheds light on the problems with the current D-Score, and how over time it became increasingly difficult to iteratively improve upon it due to its depedencies on Darwinex I…

In this first episode of the D-Score Series, Javier Colón talks about the history of Darwinex and all its Diagnostic Algorithms.Javier takes listeners back in time to the origins of the D-Score and Darwinex itself, highlighting everything that has contributed to their evolution to this.He sheds light on the need for Darwinex's Investment Attributes…

In this episode we go through a possible sequence DARWIN manager can follow to attract investor capital to their DARWIN. With focus on the stage where they go from one investor, which is themselves / DarwinIA, to two investors which already involves third-party capital. Brought to you by Darwinex: https://www.darwinex.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_me…

In this episode, we describe the key differences between Traders and Managers - and why it's crucial for individuals to be able to identify themselves as one or the other (they are not one and the same).Managers are Traders, but Traders are not Managers.Brought to you by Darwinex: https://www.darwinex.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video-descri…

If you've been trading for some years, chances are you remember more than one so-called "flash crash". A video by Darwinex (https://www.darwinex.com/). Check out the whole Brokernomics series in one place: https://community.darwinex.com/t/brokernomics-a-darwinexuncut-mini-series/7130This video is about what flash crashes are and how they come about…

Where is Darwinex going about blockchain? To be clear, we have no plans to take Darwinex to blockchain yet. We have no clue how to do it.But there're elements of our business model which are smart contracts, i.e. "blockchainable". E.g. the certification of traders' track record.But there's much more. - We're all about protecting traders' IP so they…

Darwinex has had a very clear ethos from its beginning. It's embodied by our logo featuring an owl (predator) and our animal avatars (evolution).But let's face it, we haven't been able to bring this message through. Again and again, the market perceives us as a run-of-the-mill MT4 broker. Or, even worse, as a "social" trading / investing site. Our …

In this episode, Darwinex CEO Juan Colón and CDS Ali Saif talk about the relevance of the % of clients that lost money in the last year, an information CFD-providing brokers are obliged to publish and update every 3 months, as an input when picking a broker.*** Check out the whole Brokernomics series in one place: https://community.darwinex.com/t/b…

n this episode, Juan Colón - CEO @Darwinex - talks about the psychological, financial, circumstantial and emotional impact and side effects on traders, of the WAY the retail trading industry has been run by most brokers so far.*** Check out the whole Brokernomics series in one place: https://community.darwinex.com/t/brokernomics-a-darwinexuncut-min…

In this episode, Juan Colón - CEO @Darwinex - talks about what it means to be an "Alpha" (an individual with an attitude and zeal for continuous improvement), why Darwinex is home to every Alpha in existence, and how the Darwinex Community Forum serves as a base for Alphas to share in their collective growth and that of Darwinex.He shares some hist…

In this session, Juan Colon - CEO @Darwinex talks about why Darwinex charges higher swaps than market makers do.*** Check out the whole Brokernomics series in one place: https://community.darwinex.com/t/brokernomics-a-darwinexuncut-mini-series/7130 ***He describes this in the context of how - as an Agent - Darwinex is passing on the flow of risk fr…

In this session, Juan Colon - CEO @Darwinex explains what Swaps are, why and how they are charged to traders.*** Check out the whole Brokernomics series in one place: https://community.darwinex.com/t/brokernomics-a-darwinexuncut-mini-series/7130 ***Leveraging publicly available information, Juan also sheds light on important considerations for the …

In late 2017, we embarked on a series of algorithmic trading tutorials that fast became a movement of its own.What started off as a Pythonic solution for those not using MetaTrader's built-in MQL programming language to be able to access Darwinex liquidity via Python, became an open source project rich in code, examples and even multi-OS Docker ima…

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MetaTrader backtesting can be tricky business for algorithmic traders. Follow these best practices to engineer robust, reliable trading strategies. In this podcast, we discuss ways to backtest trading strategies in a robust manner, and what factors to pay attention to during the entire trading strategy development process.Our discussion centers aro…

In this podcast, we describe the main features and behaviours of overfit trading strategies, and the risks they pose to both traders and DARWIN investors.We discuss:1) Types of Overfit Trading Strategies2) Typical Features & Behaviours3) How Traders Can Address Overfitting4) How Investors Can Avoid Overfit DARWINs.Read the associated blog post here…

Conventional trading performance measurement and backtesting via the Sharpe Ratio may create a risk-adjusted picture for traders, but isn't without its shortcomings.In this podcast, we present an argument for why the Sharpe Ratio isn't the most optimal tool for measuring the performance of a trading strategy.We discuss:1) What is the Sharpe Ratio a…

6 months after the previous AMA session, here's the recording of the Winter 2018 Ask Me Anything session with Darwinex founders Juan & Javier Colón.Av Darwinex

In previous episodes we talked about how liquidity aggregation works at Darwinex with every trade hitting the market, how our incentives are to always get you the best price and how we are a pure broker and not a market maker.In this episode we talk bout the investor replica process.After touching upon some basics (both traders and their followers/…

In this episode we talk about liquidity aggregation at our brokerage. We'll explain how the Darwinex broker operates, specifically where does the price you see and where the price you get come from when trading the assets we offer.We'll cover liquidity aggregation for- Exchange traded assets: Futures / DMA Stock CFDs- OTC Assets: FX, Index CFDs, Co…

On July 19th, 2018 we held the second Ask Me Anything (AMA) session at Darwinex. Founders Juan and Javier Colón answered to questions from Darwinex users.On the blog you can find the list of questions and when they appear in the recording so you can jump directly to the ones that interest you.Av Darwinex

In previous episodes we’ve talked about finding the 0.5% of needles in the haystack - they are the most valuable asset. They are the best trading data suppliers.But then: is trading data supplied by the remaining 99.5% worthless? No, it isn’t. There is value to it.There's an information asymmetry when it comes to data in trading:- You know what you…

In the last episodes we talked about making traders investable, the rise of the fittest and telling the skilled traders from the lucky. But… how do you know it’s not a whole lot of BS? How to tell this apart from a marketing gimmick of the Cash for Dealers industry?We get this a lot.If you really think there’s good traders out there - prove it!So w…