BO112: Combining Fundamental & Systematic Investing. Does it work?

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Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Combining fundamental macro with price data. Does it work?

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0:00.0	Maybe we can start there and just discuss maybe the point that George makes about, you know,
0:08.9	should you actually use a combination of fundamental and systematic,
0:12.7	and then also maybe a little bit about how you look at position sizing and so on and so forth.
0:20.9	Maybe I'll pass it on to you, Jerry, first since it was a question that was sent to you.
0:27.8	I think the turtle money management that uses volatility, I think it's in the public domain.
0:36.2	I think it's out there.
0:40.4	I haven't been able to improve upon it.
0:47.0	But using the ATR and losing the same amount of money on every trade and giving each trade the same room in ATR terms,
0:51.0	I think that's really good information.
0:53.6	You should check it out and use it.
0:56.5	I haven't been able to improve pretty much on that basic idea.
1:02.1	It's really, really great.
1:05.5	Sure, sure.
1:07.4	And just before we jump to you, Moritz, in terms of the other point that George raises about, you know, should you combine systematic with fundamental?
1:20.3	I know, I know, of course, which camp you're in in the sense, but is there anything you want to comment as to why you think, you know,
1:28.1	systematic only is, you know, is going to win in the long run or is the one you prefer in the long run?
1:35.9	Yeah, this one sentence caught my eye.
1:37.8	I think the future is 100% machines, it feels like, So we won't be making any decisions.
1:46.4	But, yeah, I think that this is another way we want life to be,
1:51.8	which is it's trend following.
1:55.4	Using trend is one thing in my toolbox.
1:59.0	And I think that's not the way to approach it. It is the entire toolbox.
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