Rules decide. Software trades. We keep improving both.
Automated, systematic strategies in US index, metals and other asset futures, combining short-term trades with swing trades.
Three groups of US futures.
US index futures
Futures that rise and fall with US stock market indices, so one contract moves with a whole index rather than a single company.
US metals futures
Futures on metals, listed on US exchanges.
Other US asset futures
Futures on other US assets, traded with the same rules-based approach.
Two time horizons, both automated.
Short-term trades
Short-term trades open and close within a trading session, responding to how prices move over minutes and hours.
Swing trades
Swing trades aim at larger moves and can stay open for several days, across more than one session.
Both follow written rules, and both are run by software.
Every strategy is written down before it trades.
A strategy here is a set of rules, not a feeling about the market. Writing the rules first means every trade can be traced to the rule that caused it, and every rule can be tested.
- Entry
- What must be true for a trade to open.
- Exit
- What closes it.
- Size
- How much to trade.
- Conditions
- When a rule stands aside.
Researched, tested, run and improved.
The work on a strategy does not stop when it starts trading.
Research
An idea about how a market behaves is written as a rule precise enough to test.
Test
The rule is tested before it trades. An idea that does not hold up goes no further.
Run
Software runs the strategy automatically, following the rules exactly as written.
Improve
What the strategy does in the market feeds the next round of research, and every change is tested before it replaces what runs.
We trade our own capital, and nobody else’s.
Seadon & Jones is funded by its founders’ own money, lent to the company as director’s loans, and by fixed-rate loans from close family.