BO40: Does Jerry Parker Trade Synthetic Instruments?

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Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

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🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Discussion on whether or not to trade Synthetic Instruments.

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0:00.0	But I did get a shorter question from Barry.
0:05.0	And this is actually a specific question for you, Jerry, and it's pretty straightforward.
0:11.0	And that is, do you utilize synthetic instruments and to what ends?
0:19.0	And are there any criteria and goals for assembling the instruments slash spreads, etc?
0:27.3	So a question from Barry to you, Jared, on that.
0:32.7	I have looked into these synthetic spreads, crosses.
0:39.3	I'm intrigued by these.
0:41.3	I think that it's worthwhile to look into that and maybe trade in a selective basis.
0:48.3	I believe that my initial idea was just to say, hey, wait a second, if Sterling yen and Euro Swiss, or if they can be a
1:00.2	trade, what about Euro gold or Gold Euro or Silver Gold, a spread or synthetic or whatever in
1:10.1	these relationships.
1:11.2	Will they trend?
1:13.6	And of course, the goal always is the same diversification.
1:18.2	If I trade gold and I trade silver and I trade the gold silver spread, what sort of
1:23.3	diversification is just adding to the portfolio?
1:25.5	Because I'm going to use the exact same system, same entry same exit on all the markets on the spread on the synthetic whatever you want to
1:33.8	label that label it and so how is this helping my diversification yeah I mean I've got two thoughts
1:42.9	on that one is I would say to to barry you might want to listen
1:47.2	to the episode of the interview i did uh with trans trend uh harold de boer they trade synthetics um but he
1:56.9	also commented on that they might probably or they are or doing less of that now.
2:02.2	So you might want to listen to that episode.
2:04.5	It's one of the more recent ones from this spring.
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