Dylan Maltman, an intraday futures and forex trader and founder of Apex Capital, must have had exceptional clarity starting at a young age. Introduced to the markets in a high school presentation by a prop firm, Dylan caught the passion for the potential of the markets and persuaded his way into a position at the firm. Learning about back testing, he became obsessed with dissecting every nuance of past data so as to create a system with high returns with minimal drawdowns by understanding where edge can be found, as evidenced in the performance of the algorithmic strategies. Emphasizing the significance of order flow analysis and robust back testing, he offers important insights for algorithmic, systematic, and discretionary traders.

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Topics & Timestamps:

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• 00:00 Introduction and background
• 03:30 First job at a brick and mortar proprietary firm
• 08:40 Differences between prop firm and a prop funding firm
• 12:00 What Dylan first starts algo trading
• 12:50 Dylan’s journey of back testing
• 20:40 Creating your own strategy vs buying one
• 23:45 Defining what strategy doesn’t work
• 29:00 Building a team to implement trading back tested strategies
• 30:40 Using back tested data for all markets 
• 34:30 How to detect large orders being broken up into small lots
• 40:00 Running a proprietary trading firm
• 44:25 Biggest risks for discretionary traders
• 53:50 What Dylan is looking forward to
• 59:25 How to reach Dylan
• 59:50 Chat With Tessa

Links & Resources

• How to reach Dylan – Visit Apex Capital Website: https://www.apexcptl.com/

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