SI03: Should you trade Futures or ETFs?
Top Traders Unplugged
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
4.8 • 712 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The Systematic Investor series. It’s a great privilege for me to invite you to a behind the scenes conversation between some of my favorite systematic investors namely Jerry Parker and Moritz Seibert. We get on a “call” each week to discuss the events that took place through the lens of a Systematic Investor and how the trading strategies we work with are reacting. It’s a raw and honest exploration and we hope you will join and be part of…not least by sending us questions that we can discuss.
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Episode TimeStamps:
00:00 – Intro
01:00 – Weekly recap of performance
27:50 – Top tweets
40:50 – Question 1: Craig; What are the greatest regulatory concerns at present?
49:00 – Question 2: Francois; How long did it take before you stopped modifying and religiously followed your system?
56:30 – Question 3: Francois; What are the pros and cons of futures vs ETFs?
59:30- Benchmark performance update
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to join Jerry Parker, Maritz Seabert, and Neil's Kostrup Larson on their |
| 0:06.3 | raw and honest journey into the world of systematic investing and learn about the most dependable |
| 0:11.6 | and consistent yet often overlooked investment strategy. Welcome to the Systematic Investor podcast series. |
| 0:19.2 | Hey everyone, welcome back to another edition of the Systematic Investor Series, where each |
| 0:24.6 | week we discuss and debate what's going on in the world of rule-based investing right now. |
| 0:29.6 | My name is Niels Kastroblasner and I'm excited to welcome my co-host, Jerry Parker and Moritz |
| 0:34.6 | Siebert. |
| 0:35.6 | Hey guys, how are you? |
| 0:39.4 | Great, great. |
| 0:41.1 | End of the month, end of the week. |
| 0:45.5 | So something to look forward to coming up very shortly. |
| 0:48.5 | But since it is end of the month, |
| 0:52.4 | why don't we talk a little bit about the month of September to kick things off. If I maybe start with you, Moritz. |
| 0:57.2 | How did you see this month? It's been a good month. Up a bit more than 3% actually. So one of the better |
| 1:08.4 | month this year. You know, short on guilds. Actually, I got a one of the better month this year um you know short on guilds actually got a bit a bit of |
| 1:16.0 | movement in the portfolio this week a bit longer now on natural gas position on the 10 year notes |
| 1:23.8 | turned around this is now short a bit longer on the equities, a bit more short |
| 1:29.5 | on the pound. And those have all been good markets for us to trade. Well, I mean, I guess |
| 1:35.9 | the interest rates are hoovering around some interesting levels at the moment, certainly from an |
| 1:42.8 | historic perspective. And I saw a few headlines during the month where people talked about the decisive break |
| 1:49.2 | of the yield to the upside. |
| 1:51.3 | So, and clearly, certainly we on our side have been benefiting from the short side on interest |
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