STRATEGIES

Rod Casilli

Founder, Lead Futures Trader,

tradersdevGROUP

Founder and Lead Trader, tradersdevGROUP

About Rod

Rod Casilli is the founder and lead trader at the tradersdevGROUP (TDG among friends). He has been an active futures trader and automated strategy designer for over 20 years. Mr. Casilli began his career at Merrill Lynch during the tech speculation craze, spent time trading millions of shares of stock as a SOES bandit, and then transitioned to the futures markets in the fall of 1997, corresponding with the release of the S&P Emini contract. Most recently, he was the head of product management at Collective2, the worlds largest automated trading marketplace. Mr. Casilli has a BA in English from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Rod's Videos

Social Trading and Investing: What Is It, and Is It Right for Your Portfolio?

If you have ridden in an Uber, or stayed at an Airbnb property, you have participated in the "sharing economy." Social investing uses this same model, combined with "AutoTrade" technology, to allow great traders to connect with investors. Join Collective2 COO Rod Casilli, 25-year market veteran and automated strategy developer, to learn how to tap into a huge community of trading strategy managers to help compliment your own trading and investing.

In this presentation workshop, Rod will introduce you to:

Dozens of top-traders you have never heard of and the strategies they use to consistently beat the market - handedly.

How to really "diversify" through exposure to stocks, options, commodities, futures, and hedging strategies all in one place.

His tips and recommendations for choosing strategies to consider amongst a large marketplace.

Before you subscribe to another newsletter, buy another "trading system," or send your money to an outside "wealth manager," spend 30 minutes with Rod to understand the opportunities in this new way of investing.

Rod Casilli

STRATEGIES

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The Trading Strategy Con Game and the Importance of Walk-Forward, Third-Party Trade Verification

This session will highlight, and argue for, the need for public, go-forward testing and transparency for trading strategy developers (and marketers) and tie in with John Netto's strong belief in third-party performance validation. Excel spreadsheets, cherry-picked brokerage statements, and back-testing analysis are not solutions to the problem. They are the problem. Back-testing trading systems using historical data, and optimizing the mathematical parameters used by that system, then touting the results (either to yourself or to others) that you would have achieved, had you known to actually trade the system back when it mattered), are the cause of untold financial loss and mental anguish. The answer is to dismiss hypothetical back-testing as completely worthless, which it is, and call for all traders selling trade signal (alert) services, algorithmic strategies, or any form of software or service aimed at generating trade ideas to commit publicly to the results of a particular trading strategy. Then stand by its results, no matter what happens.

Rod Casilli

STRATEGIES

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