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Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

I get a lot of questions about ideas to help build the best Trading Model, and I understand why many aspiring managers feel that this is critical to their future success. There is though, a lot of truth in the saying: “Most people overvalue ideas and underestimate execution”.

What I mean by that is, when you want to start and build a business such as a Hedge Fund or CTA, I’m not so sure that the real challenge lies within the design of your investment approach. Nowadays, I think that raising the initial funds from Seed or Early investors have actually become the biggest obstacle for new managers. This is something I have a long experience with, and this is why I wanted to focus on it, in today’s post. So I thought that Kim Bang, who spent many years at a big firm like Bloomberg before starting his own CTA firm, is the perfect person to talk about this. So enjoy these unique takeaways from my conversation with Kim.

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0:00.0	I get a lot of questions about ideas to help build the best trading models.
0:05.2	And I understand why many aspiring managers feel that this is the critical question to their
0:10.7	future success.
0:12.1	But I think there is a lot of truth in the saying that most people overvalue ideas and
0:17.3	underestimate execution.
0:19.6	And what I mean by that is that when you want to start and build a business, such as a hedge fund or a CTA,
0:27.1	I'm not so sure that the real challenge lies within the design of your investment approach.
0:33.1	You see, nowadays, I think that raising the initial funds from seed or early investors
0:38.7	have become the biggest obstacle for many new managers.
0:42.8	This is something that I have a long experience with,
0:45.9	and this is why I wanted to focus on this in today's short episode.
0:51.0	So when I looked back through my list of guests to pull a few golden nuggets on this
0:55.8	topic, I thought that Kim Bang, who spent many years at a big firm like Bloomberg before starting
1:02.5	his own CTA firm with his son, is a perfect person to talk about this. So sit back and
1:09.7	relax and enjoy these unique takeaways
1:11.8	from my conversation with Kim.
1:14.2	And if you would like to listen to the full conversation,
1:17.6	which I hope you will,
1:19.4	just go to top traders on plug.com forward slash 77
1:24.0	and also forward slash 78. Enjoy i do want to ask you because clearly you have a huge amount
1:34.1	of experience in building organizations and running them and and so on and so forth and
1:40.8	and you fully understand what is required in the trading world.
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