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🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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This week, we discuss the importance of short sellers for well-functioning markets, the benefits of trading index futures versus cash equities, diversification in a robust Trend Following system, Pfizer’s CEO selling a majority of his stock holdings around the vaccine announcement, the differences between top independent discretionary traders & professional money managers, and the increasing use of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Questions we answer this week include: Are shorter timeframes going to be more effective than longer timeframes in the future? What are your thoughts on trading less-liquid markets?
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Episode TimeStamps:
00:00 – Intro
02:02 – Macro recap from Niels
03:09 – Weekly review of performance
28:30 – Q1; James: Would your rules suit cash equities only?
38:54 – Q2; Anti: Shorter-term strategies seem to have done well in the last 5 years, should we be looking to trade these shorter timeframes, instead of the longer-term timeframes?
46:54 – Q3; Michael: What are your thoughts on trading in smaller markets such as butter, rough rice & oats?
01:00:18 – Benchmark performance update
01:06:07 – Recommended podcast listening this week: Stephanie Kelton on the Macro Voices Podcast &
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0:26.7 | Moritz Cibor and I, Neil's Castor Larsson, where each week we take the pulse of the global |
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1:17.7 | Moritz great to be back with you how are you doing how things where you are things are |
1:22.9 | dark it is evening here south of Munich about half past six otherwise everything's good we've had a |
1:30.1 | fantastic weekend here great weather it's been far too warm for that part of the year 15 16 degrees |
1:36.6 | centigrade whatever that is probably just shy of 75 or night something like that and sunny so |
1:43.7 | it's been great. Outdoors, |
1:46.0 | cycling, mountain biking, all that type of stuff, which has been a lot of fun. How are you? |
1:51.0 | Yes, no, same here. Beautiful weather. Some outdoors activity as well. |
1:57.0 | But of course, the list of chores always piles up for the weekend so a little bit of that as well |
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