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Top Traders Unplugged

BO47: Our Worst Trade

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8670 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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We go down memory lane and discuss our worst trades, and what we learned from them.

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0:00.0

I'm going to take one last quick question here, and that is from Mohit again.

0:07.4

So I delayed your other question, Mohit, but you did come up with another one today,

0:11.4

which I'll just quickly ask.

0:13.7

He said, would it be possible for you and your guest to be talking about your worst trade ever

0:19.3

and when you're following the systems.

0:22.0

I wanted to hear about the psychology of going through an unprofitable decision.

0:27.0

So I think the answer will probably be relatively short from both of you.

0:30.9

So I wanted to see if we can also just provide a quick answer to Mohit since he has been

0:35.5

patiently waiting for another question he was

0:38.5

asking. So worst trade, Moritz, I mean, I know you probably don't think about it like that,

0:44.0

so maybe you can just quickly describe how that concept works.

0:49.2

Worst trades probably being the trades, where you don't follow the system, where we don't follow

0:52.8

the rules. We spoke about that, I think, in episode one or two where, you know, I remember saying that most of the time,

1:01.1

I don't follow the rules that doesn't end well, right?

1:04.9

There are exceptions to that, but certainly as far as trend following trading systems are concerned,

1:12.4

not following the roles in my case has led to bad performance.

1:18.6

So every time that happens, that's bad.

1:20.9

But apart from that, really, like, you know, sure, I mean, in that portfolio, there

1:26.0

have been trades that have lost a tremendous amount of money

1:30.7

is that a bad trade no well it's a trade that has lost money but yeah the trade was a good

1:38.1

trade to take at the outset when that signal was generated so it's um one of many, one of a very large sample size.

1:48.0

And that distribution of results includes trades which, you know, are painful and

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