BO86: Should You Trade All Markets the Same Way?

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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An explanation of why you may trade some markets differently, rather than treat all signals the same.

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0:00.0	I'm not sure whether it surprised me or whether I just seem to have a different memory of things
0:10.4	that I've read from you or heard from you because you mentioned before, I think, that you
0:17.4	don't trade the markets necessarily exactly the same way.
0:22.0	And I thought that I had heard previously from you
0:25.8	that it's a really good idea to trade all markets equal, so to speak.
0:31.8	Can you talk to me?
0:32.8	Because this is another discussion we've had,
0:35.2	not necessarily because we disagree,
0:36.9	but there's always this
0:38.6	thing about, you know, when you build, say, a trend-falling portfolio, and in our case, we trade all
0:43.5	markets equal, even though we know that none of them is going to be optimal. I mean, we could
0:47.3	find models that, or speeds or parameters that are better for certain markets. Of course,
0:52.6	we could. We still choose to trade them equal.
0:55.8	Talk to us a little bit about that conundrum and why you've chosen to go your way and so on and so forth.
1:05.5	And how, because we have both a lot of institutional and private investors listening to us,
1:10.1	but we also have a lot of people
1:11.1	who are trying to design their own systems, and this is one of the things that they will definitely
1:15.2	be wondering about what should they do?
1:18.1	Yeah, so I'll probably start in a more abstract sense than homing on what I actually do
1:22.9	with my own system.
1:23.9	So I think human beings have a real tendency to love stories and to think, oh, actually,
1:31.6	every market is different and every market should be treated differently. And that seems logical,
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