BO84: How Many Markets Are Too Many?

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

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🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Is there an optimal number of markets to trade? We give you our views.

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0:00.0	And then back to something that Morris and I have talked about, and it could be what you wanted to bring up, Moritz.
0:07.5	I don't know.
0:08.5	But we've been talking about this point about in our trend following portfolio.
0:12.4	Should we just keep adding markets, right?
0:14.1	Or when is enough in terms of markets?
0:17.1	Because on our side, we trade only 55 markets.
0:20.4	And I know Moritz trades a lot more and and and and
0:23.9	and and and jerry for that matter you know so we've always had this little bit of a debate
0:28.4	where we need a kind of an independent ref to come and talk to us about it so maybe rob that's
0:33.9	what you need to do today about you know know, where does, where is the limit
0:37.7	within trend following portfolios in terms of just adding markets?
0:40.9	You are the referee.
0:42.1	I mean, just because we just touched on the MIP, the MIP lost close to 24% this past week.
0:47.5	The DAX is down 20%.
0:48.8	I'd say the reason I'm not down 10% or 20% is because my portfolio is so diversified.
0:55.8	It's diversified across markets.
0:58.1	It's diversified across timeframes and systems.
1:00.8	It's diversified across long and short positions, right?
1:03.3	There's stuff in there that's just independent just by eyeballing it,
1:07.5	rapeseed and crude oil and Bitcoin and equities and all of that stuff.
1:12.8	And it is really my belief.
1:14.7	It's one of those things that has been instilled in my brain, kind of like chiseled in,
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