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Michael Covel's Trend Following

Ep. 531: Mark Rzepczynski Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6730 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Mark Rzepczynski. Prior to co-founding AMPHI, Mark was the CEO of the fund group at FourWinds Capital Mgmt. Mark was also President and CIO at John W. Henry & Co., an iconic Commodity Trading Advisor. Mark has headed fixed income research at Fidelity Management and Research, served as senior economist for the CME, and as a finance professor at the Univ. of Houston Baer School of Business.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Controlling volatility
  • Style diversification
  • Long term vs. Short term managers
  • Simplicity beats complexity
  • Quant trading

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.

To start? I’d like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/

You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/

Can’t get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast

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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

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.

0:27.4

That's my passion.

0:33.1

My guest today is Mark Rezepsinsky.

0:36.4

Mark has a long and distinguished career in the trading space, particularly in the trend following

0:44.1

trading space.

0:45.8

He is the CEO of Amphi Research and Trading.

0:49.3

Mark has that very down-to-earth perspective.

0:52.5

He goes wide and he goes deep in his perspective.

0:56.9

I hope you enjoy this conversation with Mark Rezebsensky.

1:10.7

It's been a while since we talked last.

1:13.3

Yeah, you know, I was, when we exchanged messages by implication, I, I assumed that you might have thought I had gone off the trend following quant reservation never to return.

1:25.7

I saw that, but it looks like you're getting back onto the swing of

1:28.8

things, you know, with the last couple, some of the last couple of podcasts, you get, you had a

1:32.9

stellar lineup of some great managers. I was, I was wondering for a while whether you're,

1:39.0

you've given up the, the cause. No, you know, I just, it's, I guess I should have more of a plan, but I somewhat will

1:48.6

just find what interests me in that moment. You know, I can't, I can't ever let the core go too

1:54.5

far away because that, that really does, I think there's some of the best conversations because

1:59.0

it's, it's my familiarity, so it's always fun.

2:03.6

Well, it's good to get, you know, some variety in there because I think this is all about

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