OI12: Breaking Rules: Going Beyond Traditional Trend Following ft. Tillmann Sachs & Vishal Sharma
Top Traders Unplugged
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
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🗓️ 25 December 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Moritz Seibert speaks with Tillmann Sachs and Vishal Sharma from J8 Capital Management, a systematic London-based CTA. The main focus of their discussion is J8’s Global Absolute Return Strategy, which trades several different systems across markets and styles, including carry, arbitrage, and trend following. We also speak about their latest addition to this portfolio, namely the Redwood strategy, which is a short-term model trading some of the world’s most liquid futures markets and works with intraday data that’s sampled every 3 minutes. It’s an interesting conversation with a CTA “plus” – a term Tillmann uses as they employ many strategies away from rules-based trend following.
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Episode TimeStamps:
16:16 - Introduction to Tillmann Sachs, Vishal Sharma and J8 Capital Management
04:06 - Why did they start J8 Capital?
05:09 - What got them interested in a systematic approach?
09:12 - The story behind the J8 Global Absolute Return Strategy
13:53 - Multiple different systems or one big system?
16:25 - Why don't they incorporate equities in their strategy?
21:36 - Managing risk in arbitrage...
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| 0:00.0 | This kind of alpha that we are getting, I'm getting from this strategy, is unique in its own way. |
| 0:13.0 | So there are multiple ways in which we are looking at it and obviously as a whole development of the program takes place, |
| 0:20.0 | there has to be returned drivers from multiple sides, |
| 0:22.6 | multiple angles, multiple perspectives, |
| 0:24.6 | without necessarily having commonality, |
| 0:28.6 | or anything like that, or even in the timeframe, |
| 0:30.6 | or even in the approach. |
| 0:31.6 | And this particular stuff blends in very nicely with that program, |
| 0:36.6 | which is a bit slow looking at a longer term picture |
| 0:39.3 | this is looking at a short term picture completely different as such here imagine spending an |
| 0:46.9 | hour with the world's greatest traders imagine learning from their experiences their successes |
| 0:52.2 | and their failures imagine Imagine no more. |
| 0:55.8 | Welcome to Top Traders Unplugged, the place where you can learn from the best hedge fund managers |
| 1:01.0 | in the world so you can take your manager, due diligence, or investment career to the next |
| 1:05.8 | level. |
| 1:06.6 | Before we begin today's conversation, remember to keep two things in mind. |
| 1:10.6 | All the discussion we'll have about investment performance is about the past, and past |
| 1:14.7 | performance does not guarantee or even infer anything about future performance. |
| 1:19.3 | Also understand that there's a significant risk of financial loss with all investment strategies, |
| 1:24.0 | and you need to request and understand the specific risks from the investment manager about |
| 1:28.4 | their product before you make investment decisions. Here's your host, veteran hedge fund manager, |
| 1:34.1 | Niels Kostrup Larson. Welcome to another episode in the Open Interest series on TopTraders |
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