BO35: A Month in the Life of a CTA

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Today we discuss a question from the audience about what goes on in the life of a CTA.

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0:00.0	One more quick question, and we can make a general, I think, but another one from Craig,
0:07.9	is just a little bit about where we spend.
0:10.5	And I think we should talk about this maybe as firms rather than individuals, because
0:14.6	maybe it's a little bit misleading since, you know, it's not a one-man band.
0:19.9	But where we typically spend our time doing a month,
0:24.2	you know, trade, execution, analysis, research, et cetera, et cetera,
0:30.2	what would you say, what would you say, Jerry, as a firm,
0:35.1	in terms of time spent?
0:38.3	Time spent thinking and strategizing and looking at the markets and trying to get some new ideas.
0:46.3	Everything is all the trading and execution is automated. 90% of our time is spent, 10% of our time is really only spent on we only spent
0:59.2	10% of our time on you know what creates the P&L so we're very fortunate in that regard and
1:04.5	everything else as regulations and admin lawyers accountants, marketing, sales.
1:11.2	But I like to, my main job is just to look at the portfolio from a high level,
1:17.4	are we missing anything, and try to come up with new ideas.
1:22.1	I'm good at new ideas and big picture.
1:27.3	Yeah, yeah. How about you, Moritz? and big picture. Yeah.
1:28.1	Yeah.
1:29.0	How about you, Moritz?
1:32.6	I mean, deadly processes aren't, you know, they're automated and maybe that's a 10-minute
1:38.7	task, hitting buttons, you know, sending out orders, producing orders, sending out orders.
1:45.3	That's all automated, getting fields back, running reconciliations, all of that.
1:52.8	You know, today's day and age with technology, that's no longer a problem.
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