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I am not going to discuss the entry or exit rule.70 However the position sizing, money management and stop loss are a mess.Firstly why 3%? Will this generate the right amount of risk? What if I’m particularly conservative, should I still use 3%? If I don’t like a particular trade that much, what should I bet? I typically have 40 positions in my portfolio, so should I be putting 40 lots of 3% of my portfolio at risk at any one time (meaning 120% of my total portfolio is at risk)? Does 3% make sense if I am using a slower trading rule?The position sizes above might make sense for someone with an account size of perhaps £50,000 and a certain risk appetite, but what about everyone else? They might be correct when the book was written, but are they still right when we read it five years later? What about an instrument that isn’t listed, can we trade it? How?Finally, setting a stop loss based solely on your capital and personal pain threshold is incorrect.71 Someone with a tiny account who hated losing money would be triggering their very tight stops after a few minutes, whilst a large hedge fund might close a losing position after decades. Stops that would make sense in oil futures would be completely wrong in the relatively quiet USD/CAD FX market. A stop that was correct in the peaceful calm of 2006 would be absurdly tight in the insanity we saw in 2008.The solution is to separate out the components of your system: trading rules (including explicit or implicit stop losses), position sizing, and the calculation of your volatility 70. The rules aren’t too bad, as they are purely systematic and very simple. However they are binary (you’reeither fully in or out) which isn’t ideal, and having only one trading rulevariationis also less than perfect.71. This is recognised by most good traders. Here is Jack Schwager, inHedge Fund Wizards, interviewinghedge fund manager Colm O’Shea: Jack: “So you don’t use stops?” Colm: “No I do. I just set them wideenough. In those early days I wasn’t setting stops at levels that made sense on the underlying hypothesis of thetrade. I was setting stopsbased on my pain threshold. When I get out of a trade now it is because I was wrong.... Prices areinconsistent with my hypothesis. I’m wrong and I need to get out and rethink the situation.” (Myemphasis.)95Systematic Tradingtarget (the average amount of cash you are willing to risk). You can then design each component independently of the other moving parts.Trading rules and stop losses should be based only on expected market price volatility, and should never take your account size into consideration. Calculating a volatility target, how much of your capital to put at risk, is a function of account size and your pain threshold.72 Positions should then be sized based on how volatile markets are, how confident your price forecasts are, and the amount of capital you wish to gamble. Each of these components is part of the modular framework which together form a complete trading system. Why a modular framework?Remember that I drew an analogy between cars and trading systems in the introduction of this book. Trading rules are the engine of the system. These give you a forecast for instrument prices; whether they are expected to go up or down and by how much.In a car the chassis, drive train and gearbox translate the power the engine is producing into forward movement. Similarly, you will have a position risk management frameworkwrapped around your trading rules. This translates forecasts into the actual positions you need to hold.As I said in the introduction the components of a modern car are modular, so they can be individually substituted for alternatives. The trading rules and other components in my framework can also be swapped and changed.The words module and component could imply that these are complex processes which need thousands of lines of computer code to implement. This is not the case. Every part involves just a few steps of basic arithmetic which require just a calculator or simple spreadsheet. Let’s look in more detail at the advantages of the modular approach.Flexibility The most obvious benefit of a modular design is flexibility. Cars really can be any colour you like, including black. Similarly my framework can be adapted for almost any trading rule, including the discretionary forecasts used by semi-automatic traders and the very simple rule used by asset allocating investors. If you don’t like the position sizing component, or any other part of the framework, you can replace it with your own.Transparent modules 72. There are other considerations, such as the amount of leverage required versus what is available, and theexpected performance of the system. I’ll discuss these in more detail in chapter nine, ‘Volatility targeting’.96Chapter Five. Framework OverviewIt’s possible to have frameworks that are nicely modular but which contain entirely opaque black boxes. Most PCs are built like this. You can replace the hard disc or graphics card, but you can’t easily modify them or make your own, so you are stuck with substituting one mysterious part with another. In contrast each component in my framework is transparent – I’ll explain how and why it is constructed. This should give you the understanding and confidence to adapt each module, or create your own from scratch. Individual components with well defined interfaceIf you replace the gearbox in your car you need to be sure that the car will still go forward or backwards as required. But if the drive shaft output is reversed on your new gearbox you will end up driving into your front door when you wanted to reverse out of your driveway. To avoid this we need to specify that the shaft on the gearbox must rotate clockwise to make the car go forward, and vice versa.Similarly if you use a new trading rule then the rest of the modular trading system framework should still work correctly and give you appropriately sized positions. To do this the individual components need to have a well defined interface – a specification describing how they interact with other parts of the system. For example in the framework it will be important that a trading rule forecast of say +1.5 has a consistent meaning, no matter what style of trading or instrument you are using.
73 Getting the boring bit right The part of the trading system wrapped around the trading rules, the framework, is something that’s easily ignored. Creating it is a boring task compared with developing new and exciting trading rules, or making your own discretionary forecasts. But it’s incredibly important. By creating a standard framework I’ve done this dull but vital work for you.The framework will work correctly for any trading rule that produces forecasts in a consistent way with the right interface. So it won’t need to be radically redesigned for any new rules. Also by using the framework asset allocating investors and semi-automatic traders can get much of the benefits of systematic trading without using trading rules to forecast prices.73.
It will become clear in later chapters what this consistent meaning is.
97 Systematic Trading Examples give you a starting point Creating a new trading system from scratch is quite a daunting prospect. In the final part of this book there are three detailed examples showing how the framework can be used to suit asset allocating investors, semi-automatic traders and staunch systematic traders. Together these provide a set of systems you can use as a starting point for developing your own ideas.#TradingTales #SystemArchitecture #framework BTC
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Franklin Templeton has named Coinbase Custody as the custodian for its proposed spot XRP exchange-traded fund, according to the final prospectus submitted to the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission.
The asset manager, which manages about $1.6 trillion, disclosed that the product is scheduled to begin trading on November 18 once regulatory conditions are met. The move forms one of the first fully structured spot XRP ETF frameworks filed in the United States and adds to a growing slate of crypto-related submissions awaiting SEC review.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS:
Coinbase Custody will serve as the custodian for Franklin Templeton’s spot XRP ETF (ticker: EZRP).This is confirmed in the final prospectus filed with the SEC and in Franklin Templeton’s official announcements. $1.6T FT will launch tomorrow November 18
The fund, which would trade on the Cboe BZX Exchange, is intended to offer exposure to XRP, currently the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Coinbase Custody would safeguard the ETF’s XRP assets, while Coinbase, operating separately, would act as the prime broker for trade execution services.
CSC Delaware Trust Company would oversee trust management responsibilities as trustee. Franklin Templeton stated that the ETF shares will be issued and redeemed at net asset value through authorized participants, consistent with other spot crypto ETF mechanisms.
Key Disclosures in the Filing
The net asset value of the fund would be based on the #CME CF #XRP -Dollar Reference Rate, a standard asset price index that is typically applied across financial products in the digital-asset sector.
In the #framework described in the filing, the sponsor of the fund, Franklin Holdings, has consented to pay the majority of typical operating expenses in exchange with a sponsor fee.
The trust is classified as an emerging growth company under the #JOBSAct , which provides it with some reporting accommodations in its initial years of operation.
The SEC acknowledged the filing within days of multiple other XRP ETF submissions, including Grayscale’s February 14 application, which initiated a 240-day review process.
The acknowledgment marked the first time the regulator has formally responded to proposals involving investment products that directly hold XRP, even as the SEC continues its separate litigation against Ripple Labs concerning XRP’s regulatory classification.
Institutional XRP Products Begin to Expand
There has been an increase in interest in XRP investment vehicles. Bitwise, just under two days after Franklin Templeton indicated that it would launch, began to announce that it would start trading its own spot XRP fund on November 20. The company claimed that its product is targeted at institutional investors, including hedge funds and family offices, who require a regulated investment in the asset.
The new investment products on XRP have been given a boost by their recent market performance. Furthermore, the Canary Capital XRPC product generated approximately $58 million during its initial trading on the first day. An XRP-based product raised $243 million in its initial launch, outperforming the $111.7 million raised by the first launch of the BlackRock Bitcoin ETF.
Market Observations Following ETF Developments
Although XRP has suffered a pullback following these product launches, analysts quoted by market trackers have noted that the downtrend occurred during an overall weak market period. In commentary, analysts, including E. Grag Crypto, Javon Marks, and Ripple Bull Winkle, assert that the recent price action was not in line with changes in ETF trading volumes.
Their publicly issued evaluations cited historical price patterns and previous market responses, but failed to attribute the retracement to ETF-related activity.
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Moldova to Legalize and Regulate Crypto by 2026
• New comprehensive crypto law: Moldova plans to adopt its first nationwide cryptocurrency law by the end of 2026, aligning it with the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulatory framework.
• Legal status of cryptoassets: The proposed legislation would legally recognize the holding and trading of cryptocurrencies within the country under regulated conditions.
• Payments and legal tender: Despite legalization for ownership and trade, cryptocurrencies will not be permitted as a means of payment for goods and services, and the Moldovan leu will remain the official legal tender.
• Taxation: The draft framework reportedly includes taxation provisions: crypto gains will be taxed (e.g., at a rate of about 12 % on income and capital gains from transactions, though holding itself isn’t taxed).
• Regulatory alignment: The move is driven by Moldova’s ambition to align with EU standards as part of its broader integration path with the EU.
• Drafting and oversight: Multiple agencies, including the Ministry of Finance, National Bank of Moldova, financial market regulator, and anti-money-laundering authority, are collaborating on the legislation.
• Under current law, cryptocurrency activity in Moldova is largely unregulated and not formally recognized, meaning there isn’t a clear legal basis for crypto markets yet.
• The planned regulation draws on the EU’s MiCA framework, which sets common standards for crypto-asset service providers, licensing, consumer protection, and market conduct across EU jurisdictions.
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