Build Alpha https://www.buildalpha.com/ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:16:05 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.buildalpha.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cropped-MonteCarloDD_Explained-1-100x100.png Build Alpha https://www.buildalpha.com/ 32 32 shopengine_activated_templates a:1:{s:4:"cart";a:2:{s:7:"default";s:2:"en";s:4:"lang";a:1:{s:2:"en";a:1:{i:0;a:3:{s:11:"template_id";s:4:"4723";s:6:"status";b:1;s:11:"category_id";i:0;}}}}} Trading Systems with Weather Data https://www.buildalpha.com/trading-weather-data/ https://www.buildalpha.com/trading-weather-data/#respond Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:16:08 +0000 https://www.buildalpha.com/?p=19607 Alternative Data
Trading Systems with Weather Data

Build trading strategies using 30 years of historical weather data — temperature, precipitation, HDD/CDD,

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]]> https://www.buildalpha.com/trading-weather-data/feed/ 0 Building Robust Strategies on Synthetic Data https://www.buildalpha.com/synthetic-data-trading-strategies/ https://www.buildalpha.com/synthetic-data-trading-strategies/#respond Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:46:08 +0000 https://www.buildalpha.com/?p=10588 Home›Robustness Testing Guide›Building Strategies on Synthetic Data
Build Strategies Across
the Multiverse of Price Paths

The historical data is one path.

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]]> https://www.buildalpha.com/synthetic-data-trading-strategies/feed/ 0 Portfolio Backtest and Trading Techniques https://www.buildalpha.com/portfolio-backtest-trading/ https://www.buildalpha.com/portfolio-backtest-trading/#respond Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:39:34 +0000 https://www.buildalpha.com/?p=10520 Portfolio trading is combining many independent, uncorrelated trading strategies into one shared account to gain some net benefit from their combination. One should design automated trading systems to handle and capture different market effects and environments to maximize this benefit.

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]]> https://www.buildalpha.com/portfolio-backtest-trading/feed/ 0 What is the Commitment of Traders Report https://www.buildalpha.com/commitment-of-traders-report/ https://www.buildalpha.com/commitment-of-traders-report/#respond Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:08:15 +0000 https://www.buildalpha.com/?p=10579 The Commitment of Traders Report is a weekly report released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) that shows the open interest for futures and options on futures in markets with 20 or more traders holding positions above or equal to the reporting levels established by the CFTC.

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]]> https://www.buildalpha.com/commitment-of-traders-report/feed/ 0 Build Alpha Software Update Version 3 https://www.buildalpha.com/software-update-v3/ https://www.buildalpha.com/software-update-v3/#respond Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:06:47 +0000 https://www.buildalpha.com/?p=10442 What’s New in the Build Alpha Update

First, thank you all for the patience on this update. A lot has happened since the last update.

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]]> https://www.buildalpha.com/software-update-v3/feed/ 0 Market Breadth https://www.buildalpha.com/market-breadth/ https://www.buildalpha.com/market-breadth/#respond Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:37:24 +0000 https://www.buildalpha.com/?p=17795 What is Market Breadth?

Market Breadth is a general term for any technical analysis indicator that attempts to quantify the strength or weakness of a stock market index by the aggregate participation among the index’s components. 

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]]> https://www.buildalpha.com/market-breadth/feed/ 0 News Event Trading https://www.buildalpha.com/news-event-trading/ https://www.buildalpha.com/news-event-trading/#respond Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:30:43 +0000 https://www.buildalpha.com/?p=17776 What is News Event Trading?

News trading is taking a position before, during, or after an economic news event with the intention of profiting from the anticipation or reaction of the news event.

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]]> https://www.buildalpha.com/news-event-trading/feed/ 0 Robustness Tests and Checks for Algorithmic Trading Strategies | Complete Guide https://www.buildalpha.com/robustness-testing-guide/ https://www.buildalpha.com/robustness-testing-guide/#respond Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:21:32 +0000 https://www.buildalpha.com/?p=17738 What is a Robust Trading Strategy?

A robust trading strategy can withstand the tests of time and evolving market conditions. A large key to successful algorithmic trading lies in gauging how likely a strategy is to fail in new market conditions.

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]]> https://www.buildalpha.com/robustness-testing-guide/feed/ 0 Using Python in Build Alpha [Creating Custom Signals] https://www.buildalpha.com/using-python-in-buildalpha/ https://www.buildalpha.com/using-python-in-buildalpha/#respond Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:26:23 +0000 https://www.buildalpha.com/?p=17687 Build Alpha and Python

As 2017 comes to an end, I want to introduce one more upgrade to BuildAlpha in its first year.

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]]> https://www.buildalpha.com/using-python-in-buildalpha/feed/ 0 What is TradingView Pine Script? https://www.buildalpha.com/what-is-tradingview-pine-script/ https://www.buildalpha.com/what-is-tradingview-pine-script/#respond Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:41:08 +0000 https://staging.buildalpha.com/?p=13488 TradingView Pine Script is a proprietary programming language developed by TradingView to allow traders to easily create custom indicators, signals, and strategies to be used with TradingView’s charts and website.

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