Ep. 198: William Adams Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2014
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is William Adams, a private trader and systems developer. He is based in Zurich and works with institutional clients. Adams has over 17 years of experience in financial markets.
The topic is systematic trading strategies.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- The first time Adams got the “trading bug”
- Early trading strategies
- Generating alpha
- The strategies that Adams uses today
- The “core satellite approach”
- Why Adams chose options over futures
- The seasonality of trades
- Inspirational resources found by Adams
- The influence of Zurich on Adams, and whether or not Americans can learn a thing or two from the Swiss
Jump in!
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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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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.2 | Today in the podcast I have Bill Adams. |
| 0:36.7 | Bill is with a hedge fund for a long time. |
| 0:38.9 | He is a private trader. |
| 0:40.8 | He's a system developer. |
| 0:42.8 | That means the logic and the code. |
| 0:45.8 | He's based in Zurich. |
| 0:47.7 | No retail clients right now. |
| 0:50.0 | Just large institutional clients. |
| 0:53.1 | This is part one of our conversation. |
| 0:54.9 | I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:03.0 | Listen, I want to jump in because I want to, usually I will jump right into subject areas, |
| 1:07.6 | but I'd like you, you know, we had a chance to sit down and meet in Zurich, |
| 1:11.3 | but I'd like you to walk back and just do a little self-promotion or really just self-reflection |
| 1:17.9 | and the sense of, as a young man growing up in America, when did you first have this trading |
| 1:24.8 | bug or how did you work your way in? I'm expecting the first place |
| 1:29.9 | you made it to is the floor and correct me if I'm wrong. Yeah, it's actually like a little bit, |
| 1:36.0 | it goes back even further than that. I grew up in New Orleans, which is basically, you know, nothing against the city. |
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