Salem Abraham, Abraham Trading Company - Managing Risk Starts With Imagining the Unimaginable | #282

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

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Business, Investing, Management

4.7 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In episode 282, we welcome our guest, Salem Abraham, President of Abraham Trading Company and a legend within the trend following and managed futures space. In today’s episode we're talking with Salem about a lifetime of trend-following. Salem explains how a chance meeting with Turtle Trader Jerry Parker was his first encounter with ideas he would build his career on. We talk about the importance of risk management and diversification by utilizing assets other than equities. Then he explains how his relationship with the late Boone Pickens led to a foundation that had such good returns that he opened it up to the public and runs to this day. We touch on asset classes ranging from the dollar, bitcoin, farmland, and even trailer parks. As we wind down, we hear how hedge he put on in February turned $200,000 into $6 million in 37 days, returning 30x his money. All this and more with Abraham Trading Company’s Salem Abraham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Medfavor Show, where the focus is on helping you grow and preserve your wealth.
0:11.0	Join us as we discuss the craft of investing and
0:13.5	uncover new and profitable ideas all to help you grow wealthier and wiser.
0:17.2	Better investing starts here.
0:18.8	Matt Faber is the co-founder and chief investment officer at Cambria Investment Management.
0:23.3	Did it industry regulations, he will not discuss any of Cambria's funds on this podcast.
0:27.2	All opinions expressed by podcast participants are solely their own opinions and do not reflect the opinion of
0:31.2	Cambria Investment or its affiliates. For more information opinion of Cambria Investment Management or its affiliates.
0:33.4	For more information, visit Cambria Investments.com.
0:39.6	What's up y'all?
0:40.5	Great show for you today.
0:42.0	One of my favorites. our guest is the president of
0:44.2	Abraham Trading Company and a legend within the trend following and managed future
0:48.7	space in today's episode we're talking with our guests about a lifetime of trend following.
0:53.9	We hear how we got a chance meeting with Turtle Trader and former podcast guest, Jerry Parker,
0:59.0	was his first encounter with ideas he would later build his career on. We talk about the importance of
1:03.8	risk management, diversification by utilizing assets other than stocks. Our
1:09.2	guest explains how his relationship with the late Boone Pigons led to a foundation that had such good returns
1:13.5	he opened it up to the public and runs it to this day. We touch on asset classes ranging from the
1:18.4	dollar, Bitcoin, farmland and even trailer parks. So we wind down.
1:23.3	We hear about a hedge she put on, made 30X's money in just about as many days.
1:28.4	American Farmland is disappearing at an alarming rate.
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