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Top Traders Unplugged

BO25: Un-Learning, Keeping an Open Mind & The Legacy of AHL

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8670 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

It has been said that: ‘The biggest room of all, is the room for improvement’, and one thing that is clear to see in the amazing careers of today’s guests, is the continued hunger for learning in the quest for an improved investment process. This has led to an unprecedented success for this trio.  Today, I share the last key insights from my conversation with Michael Adam, David Harding and Marty Lueck, also known as the founders of AHL.  In this post, we don’t just discuss the importance of learning… but also how you must un-learn certain things in order to move forward.  Lastly, we discuss what the three of them wish the legacy of AHL will be. So, sit back and relax and enjoy these truly unique takeaways from my conversation with Michael, David and Marty.

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0:00.0

It has been said that the biggest room of all is the room for improvement. And one thing that

0:07.5

is clear to see in the amazing careers of today's guest is the continued hunger for learning

0:13.3

in the quest for improving their investment process, something that has led to an unprecedented

0:20.4

success for this trio.

0:22.6

You probably guessed it.

0:24.6

Today I share the last key insights from my conversation with Michael Adam, David Harding and Marty Lurk,

0:30.6

also known as the founders of AHL.

0:33.6

In this clip, we don't just discuss the importance of learning,

0:36.6

but also how you must unlearn

0:39.3

certain things in order to move forward, and not least what the three of them wish the legacy

0:45.3

of AHA will be. So sit back and relax, enjoy these truly unique takeaways from my

0:51.3

conversation with Michael, David and Marty, and if you'd like to listen to the full conversation, and I hope you do, just go to

0:58.4

TopTraders on blog.com forward slash RT11.

1:02.5

That is where the conversation starts.

1:10.2

I think it was once said that the biggest room of all is the room for improvement, and by

1:15.6

this I mean that when I look at your achievements, I see a continuing sort of hunger for learning.

1:20.6

But what about the flip side? You touched upon it, I think, earlier today, about unlearning.

1:25.6

I mean, are there certain things that you found

1:27.6

really important to unlearn in order to continue to improve your strategies, things that you

1:33.9

thought were really good, only to realize that they were in fact flawed and much riskier than

1:39.2

you thought? Well, that's probably a different view amongst the three of us, because I remember in the early days, David had an office where what he would do is he was surrounded by data.

1:52.8

So literally it was almost like a – and David used to be a complete chaotic mess full of cuttings from the Wall Street Journal and,

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