TradersPost Team

Mike Christensen

Co-Founder / CSO

Mike Christensen

About

Mike Christensen is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at TradersPost, and is a self taught systems builder and quantitative trader. He has a background in building data driven software products, automation systems, and growth platforms across fintech, analytics, and SaaS, and holds a CFOA designation as a Certified Futures and Options Analyst. Over the years he has designed and deployed dozens of automated trading strategies in stocks, crypto, and futures, and built full stack trading applications with real time charting and alerts.

At TradersPost, Mike works at the overlap of trader, builder, and systems designer. He actively trades futures while working hands on with automated execution, broker integrations, market data workflows, and risk controls that real retail traders rely on every day. He is especially excited about the convergence of automation, AI assisted strategy design, and broker level execution, and about turning discretionary ideas into repeatable systems so traders can operate with more consistency and less friction.

Outside of markets and engineering, Mike was a musician before working in tech and finance, signed to a label in high school and touring for three years. He is into fitness, loves metal and mathcore, and is a relentless student of personal development with a deep library of self help books.

Blog Posts

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Automating Long and Short Strategies

Automated trading provides an enormous benefit to traders that are looking to remove emotion from a bullish or bearish sentiment they may have on the market. Allowing your strategy to be market neutral and going long and short can provide a much more flexible approach to trading.

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Fallacies and Biases in Automated Trading

Algorithmic trading and backtesting offer powerful tools for traders, enabling rigorous analysis and execution of strategies at speeds and volumes unattainable by humans alone. However, the human element in the development and interpretation of these systems introduces cognitive biases that can skew results and lead to suboptimal trading decisions. This article explores key cognitive biases to be mindful of in algorithmic trading and backtesting.

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Indicators Feb 9, 2024

What Is Overfitting in Trading? How to Detect and Avoid It

Overfitting is like walking an unfamiliar path blindfolded, convinced you know every twist and turn, only to fall flat on your face in the first 20 feet.

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Charting Dec 14, 2023

Hacking TradingView: Multi-Broker and Multi-Asset Trading from TradingView

Having the ability to manage multiple positions across various brokers is crucial for traders looking to maximize their opportunities. However, a notable limitation exists on TradingView, which restricts users to a single broker connection at a time. This constraint can be a significant hurdle for traders aiming to diversify their portfolios across different asset classes like stocks, options, futures, and cryptocurrencies. We cover a hack on how to connect multiple brokers and multiple asset classes from TradingView in this post.

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Automatically Build JSON Messages with the WebhookMessage TradingView Library

Lots of people have a hard time making a proper JSON message for signals and alerts on TradingView, and they get confused when they see errors in their TradersPost log. To make it easier to create JSON messages, we made a tool in Pine Script that does it for you, so it works every time. Complete documentation and type hinting is available in TradingView as you create new messages.

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Charting Mar 7, 2023

What is repainting in TradingView and how do I find it and avoid it?

Repainting is a Pine Script behavior in TradingView causing historical vs real-time calculations or plots to behave differently. It is widespread and can be caused by many factors. Most existing indicators repaint, including widely used indicators like MACD and RSI. TradingView’s documentation states that, “[...] our estimate is that more than 95% of indicators in existence repaint.”

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Charting Sep 15, 2022

Can you trade options on TradingView through TradersPost?

Recently, a customer asked if they could trade options from TradingView signals like price alerts and strategy signals. The quick answer is yes!

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