BO117: Judging A “Book” By Its Cover

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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How investors are easily swayed by misleading titles... costing them dearly.

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0:00.0	I emphasized to my son or whoever you know who's interested and I'm like, oh yeah, don't call yourself a CTA or manage futures.
0:10.4	You're a systematic global macro hedge fund.
0:13.9	Yeah.
0:14.2	And probably just so happens that taking small losses and taking short positions and currencies and commodities along with equities
0:22.2	and being somewhat rule-based or, you know, making money in long-term trends is probably just a
0:29.2	universal almost methodology for successful funds who figured out a way to stay in business and
0:37.2	survive.
0:39.0	And so it's just kind of a shame that we're so transparent.
0:44.2	It's just trend and we're CTAs.
0:46.4	And I mean, we even get allocations from RIAs around the country who have a little
0:52.1	business and they trend follow ETFs.
0:55.2	You know, they never go short.
0:56.5	They just switch around to different types of stock ETFs or bonds.
1:01.6	And they're like managing all this money with trend.
1:05.1	They love trend.
1:06.6	They see, oh, Jerry, you're like one of my heroes.
1:09.0	And I'm going to allocate, I'm going to allocate 5% to you, and I'll just take care of the 95% with trend. So it's kind of, so I was just
1:19.9	wondering, what do you think about a, would you sort of recommend or, I mean, sort of late to the
1:24.8	game for some of us, but it seems to me that rather than having a product that is somehow supposed to deliver
1:33.5	Crisis Alpha, which it doesn't really do reliably because Crisis Alpha is what happened in two days
1:40.4	in February.
1:42.5	And I'm only going to allocate 5% or 10% anyways, but maybe to create the perfect moral product
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