BO100: Embracing Both Longs & Shorts

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Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Why aiming for a balance of longs & shorts in your portfolio may be beneficial.

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0:00.0	I just wanted to comment on something more it said, which is just important to keep emphasizing
0:08.6	that we talk about currencies, commodities, interest rates and stocks in the diversification,
0:15.2	but then the shorts are just so important.
0:17.4	These markets have a tendency to be, the longs have a tendency to be correlated with each
0:21.6	other regardless of the sector and the shorts are correlated. So it's nice to come in with
0:26.5	balance or close to balance. Of course, we're subject to the trend and it's definitely possible
0:32.3	for me to be all long or all short. I don't think it's ever happened, but I'm going to just
0:36.4	follow the trends. But it is fortunate. I don't think it's ever happened, but I'm going to just follow the trends.
0:44.3	But it is fortunate in it. I don't think it works to go out and try to find more longs and preempt the system to let's use some discretion to get longer, quicker if we could. But I do
0:52.4	think it's nice that we end up having longs and shorts, and it really
0:57.4	just ratches it, ratchets down the risk on a daily basis, because, you know, we talked last
1:04.1	week about how one of those days the week before, everything was down. So it's good to have some
1:10.2	shorts.
1:11.7	I agree with that.
1:17.7	You know, the long positions in the equities, that was the key driver of the losses in October.
1:24.8	You know, and as far as I'm concerned, I've been, you know, 70 to 80 percent long in those markets. And that has been problematic.
1:29.0	That has not changed.
1:30.0	I'm happy about that.
1:31.4	Yeah.

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