Ep. 344: Martin Lueck Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2015
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Martin Lueck. Lueck holds an M.A. in Physics from Oxford University and currently is the Research Director and President of Aspect Capital. Lueck was originally with Adam, Harding and Lueck Limited (AHL), which he co-founded with Michael Adam and David Harding. At AHL, Martin initially focused on trading system research before taking on responsibility for the further development of the proprietary software language which provided the platform for all of AHL's product engineering and implementation.
The topic is Trend Following.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Quantitative, systematic styles in action
- The beginnings of AHL
- Early coding experiences
- Early decisions that lead to a completely systematic strategy
- Diversification
- What percentage of the educated financial audience grasps the strategies that are used at Aspect
- Behavioral economics
- Bringing new potential opportunities into Aspect
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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. |
| 0:21.1 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.1 | I've had some interesting debates recently. |
| 0:36.6 | The content of the debate's not so important, but one of the reactions was really interesting. |
| 0:44.8 | I was ahead on the facts scorecard. |
| 0:49.4 | The person that was talking with me was not aware of all the facts. |
| 0:55.3 | And many times when the facts are not on your side, it devolves into an emotional attack. |
| 1:01.9 | Usually the emotional attack on me. |
| 1:04.1 | So if I'm just putting the facts out there, it can cause some people to get unnerved. |
| 1:09.4 | Long story short, this person said to me, well, you know, I don't want to be like you. |
| 1:14.1 | I don't want to be, you're going to be an angry old man. |
| 1:16.4 | You're not going to listen to anybody. |
| 1:17.7 | You're not going to be open to this and open to that. |
| 1:20.8 | And I thought it was a really interesting comeback. |
| 1:23.0 | You're going to be an angry old man. |
| 1:24.8 | You're not going to listen to anyone you're going to be too set in your ways |
| 1:27.9 | this was a person that doesn't listen to my podcast i am so fortunate to bring on such a diversity |
| 1:36.9 | of guests there's almost no way i mean yeah i've got my point of view and all that kind of fun |
| 1:44.1 | stuff but in terms of staying young in the mind There's almost no way. I mean, yeah, I've got my point of view and all that kind of fun stuff. |
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