SI112: How and When to improve your trading system ft. Moritz Seibert
Top Traders Unplugged
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
4.8 • 712 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, we discuss the continual need for improvements to a system, the importance of good housekeeping when it comes to managing a portfolio, the varying amounts of leverage among CFD brokers, choosing whether to accept outside investment into your strategy or go it alone, using profit stops versus letting your winners run, and the importance of protecting your intellectual property. Questions we answer this week include: How do experienced CTAs trade through limit-down (or limit-up) situations? Can machine learning be useful in Trend Following for more than just risk parity strategies?
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Episode TimeStamps:
00:00 – Intro
00:12 – Top Traders Unplugged wins award for ‘Best Trading Podcast’ and features among the ‘Top 20 Best Investing Podcasts in 2020’ by The Investors Podcast 🏆
02:30 – Macro recap from Niels
04:43 – Weekly review of performance
16:38 – Q1; Matt: How do I incorporate external money into my trading strategy, and, alternatively, should I avoid it?
34:17 – Q2; Brian: How do experienced CTAs trade limit-down or limit-up situations?
46:54 – Q3; Panagiotis: Do you see any other uses for machine learning in Trend Following strategies, other than Risk Parity?
01:00:05 – Q4; Craig: Should I stick with my profit targets, or let my winners run?
01:04:46 – Benchmark performance update
01:06:07 – Recommended podcast listening this week: Oaktree Capital’s Howard Marks – Coming Into Focus podcast & Annie Duke on the Capital Allocator’s Podcast
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to join Jerry Parker, Maritz Siebert, and Nealz Kostrup Larson on their raw and honest journey into the world of systematic investing and learn about the most dependable and consistent yet often overlooked investment strategy. |
| 0:15.1 | Welcome to the Systematic Investor podcast series. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome or welcome back to this week's edition of the Systematic Investor series |
| 0:26.7 | with Moritz Cepider 9, Neil's Castor Larsen, where each week we take the pulse of the global |
| 0:31.0 | markets through the lens of a rules-based investor. |
| 0:34.8 | For those of you who are regular listeners, of course our conversations are intended to keep you focused and inspired to continue your rules-based investor. For those of you who are regular listeners, of course, our conversations |
| 0:38.2 | are intended to keep you focused and inspired to continue your rules-based investing journey. |
| 0:43.1 | And if you're new to the show, we hope that today's episode will trigger some curiosity |
| 0:47.0 | to check out the back catalog and listen to past episodes you may have missed. |
| 0:52.1 | Now, before we get started today, |
| 0:54.3 | I do want to share some amazing news that took place this week, |
| 0:57.7 | namely that Top Traders on Plug was named the best trading podcast of 2020 |
| 1:02.9 | by the team over at the Investors podcast. |
| 1:06.2 | We are, of course, grateful for this recognition. |
| 1:09.5 | Being recognized by your peers always means a lot. |
| 1:12.6 | But of course, the podcast is a team effort. |
| 1:15.3 | So I want to take this opportunity to especially thank you, Moritz, |
| 1:19.2 | for co-hosting the Systematic Investor series, |
| 1:22.8 | as well, of course, as Robert Carver and Jerry Parker. |
| 1:26.7 | And also a big thank you to our producers and |
| 1:29.0 | tick people, Dimitri and Shane who work really hard to make us sound good and create a lot of |
| 1:34.7 | the social content that we are able to share. And of course a really big thank you to all of |
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