Dave Mabe
Professional trader and technologist with over two decades of experience; former CTO of Trade-Ideas who focuses on systematic trading, backtesting, and building automated strategies.
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Feb 27, 2026 • 56min
318 · Dave Mabe - The Shift to Systematic Trading — Building Backtested Confidence
Dave Mabe, a professional trader and technologist with 20+ years and former CTO of Trade-Ideas, talks systematic trading and backtesting. He covers gapping breakout rules, position sizing and R-multiples, and how filters change outcomes. He shares how backtests beat discretion, reconciling simulations with live execution, handling drawdowns, and practical steps to start automating and diversifying strategies.
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Jun 27, 2024 • 1h 12min
Episode #124: Dave Mabe CTO Officer at Trade Ideas on Backtesting, creating a process & AI trading
Chief technology officer at Trade Ideas & consistent profitable systematic independent trader for 17 years, Dave Mabe, discusses transitioning from manual to automated trading, the significance of backtesting, and the impact of unavailable borrows on trading performance. The episode explores the development of Holly AI, trading psychology, and offers a free trial for the micro futures trading room.
Dec 13, 2025 • 1h 7min
How to Build Automated Trading Systems with Dave Mabe
Dave Mabe, computer scientist and former Trade Ideas CTO who builds tools for rules-based trading. He talks about turning trade journals into formal backtests. He explains automating execution to enforce rules and scale frequency. He covers simplicity over complexity, stress-testing strategies, and the workflow from hypothesis to live trading.
