Ep. 1184: Robert Carver Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Robert Carver, an independent systematic futures trader, investor, writer, and research consultant. He is currently a visiting lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London. Robert trades and invests with his own money using the methods you can find in his books. Until 2013 Robert worked for AHL, a large systematic hedge fund, and part of the Man Group. He was responsible for the creation of AHL's fundamental global macro strategy. Prior to that Robert worked as a research manager for CEPR, an economics think tank, and traded exotic derivatives for Barclays investment bank.
The topic is his book Advanced Futures Trading Strategies.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Systematic trading
- Short term strategies
- Profits in trading
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:26.6 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:38.3 | That's my passion. My guest today is an independent trader, investor, and writer. Spent over a decade working in the city of London before retiring from the industry, so to speak. |
| 0:44.4 | He was once a portfolio manager for A.H.L. |
| 0:48.0 | The famed trend following CTA hedge fund. |
| 0:52.5 | My guest today is Robert Carver. He has been on this podcast twice before, |
| 0:56.9 | and today we talk about a lot of trading stuff and perspectives. I get to pick his mind. He corrects |
| 1:04.1 | me where he sees fit. And we do dive into some detail from his new book, Advanced Futures Trading Strategies. |
| 1:12.7 | Without any further delay, let's jump right into my conversation today with Robert Carver. |
| 1:31.7 | Let's just get that out of the gate because it is true. |
| 1:40.3 | Your work, what you do is for serious traders who really want to understand systematic trading. |
| 1:41.9 | No BS. |
| 1:47.9 | I mean, Joe Friday, just the facts. That's how your books read. And so from that standpoint, if people are really interested in the systematic trading, well, that's important. |
| 1:51.7 | I try to get behind the covers and give some of the nitty-gritty details too, but I think you go an |
| 1:57.2 | extra mile in your books. I think people need to understand that right out of the gate. |
| 2:01.1 | I just mentioned that we had spoken 2016 and 2017, and I think it would be great for people |
| 2:08.9 | as we weave ourselves into the idea of systematic strategies. It would be great for people |
| 2:14.9 | to understand that while you, I think by any definition, could be |
| 2:19.5 | considered an expert in this space. You've got enough experience to where you're going back, |
| 2:24.5 | some of the folks in their 20s and 30s today. You're going to say, what's that? Pit trading. |
| 2:28.7 | And even though say that about trading places, what you quote in the beginning of your book, |
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