SI119: Trading TESLA & Commodity Breakout ft. Jerry & Moritz
Top Traders Unplugged
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
4.8 • 712 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Today we welcome back Jerry Parker and Moritz Seibert onto the show to discuss the possible long-term breakout of commodity prices, trading Tesla around its inclusion into the S&P 500 index, carrying out non-system trades, Bitcoin reaching new all-time highs, the importance of staying in some of these long-awaited trends, relying on your backtest regardless of the circumstances, why long-only buy & hold funds might not deserve many plaudits this year, the perfect time to make adjustments to your system, and why it can be a good idea to avoid being too skeptical in the markets.
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00:00 – Intro
01:28 – Macro recap from Niels
04:13 – Weekly review of performance
12:34 – What is risk management?
57:50 – Q1; Michael: When you trade foreign instruments, do you trade them in their native currencies?
01:00:54 – Q2; Jim: Does the need for diversification outweigh the benefits of concentrated gains?
01:14:37 – Benchmark performance update
01:08:45 – Recommended listening or reading this week: Hidden Forces podcast, Kyle Bass on the Macro Voices Podcast & Jack Schwager on the Systematic Investor 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 |
| 0:07.3 | journey into the world of systematic investing and learn about the most dependable and consistent |
| 0:12.3 | yet often overlooked investment strategy. Welcome to the Systematic Investor podcast series. |
| 0:22.7 | Welcome or welcome back to this week's edition of the Systematic Investor series with |
| 0:26.6 | Jerry Parker, Mort Sebert and I, Neil's Castro Blasen, where each week we take the pulse |
| 0:31.3 | of the global markets through the lens of a rules-based investor. |
| 0:35.7 | And for those of you who are regular listeners, |
| 0:39.7 | our conversations are intended to keep you focused and inspire to continue your rules-based investing journey. |
| 0:43.4 | And if you're new to the show, |
| 0:44.5 | we hope that today's episode will trigger your curiosity |
| 0:47.4 | to check out the back catalog |
| 0:48.9 | and listen to some of the past episodes |
| 0:50.9 | that you may have missed. |
| 0:53.1 | Jerry Morts, great to be back with you this week. |
| 0:56.0 | How are you doing? How are things where you are? Things are good. Glad to be back. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:01.5 | I've enjoyed listening to the podcast. It's the first thing I try to do every morning, |
| 1:07.7 | Monday morning when I wake up and get right into and see what's going on. It's |
| 1:12.2 | been a blast. I've missed you guys and you've had some pretty good quality stuff out there. I've |
| 1:17.6 | really enjoyed it. Appreciate it. How are you doing, Moritz? Doing great. Hey, Neels. Hello, Jerry. It's |
| 1:23.4 | great to have you back on. Yes, absolutely. It's always a lot of fun. Now, I was looking at |
| 1:29.4 | sort of what to pick up in terms of a market wrap this week. And I thought of the year as a |
| 1:35.8 | holder, and it's kind of a paradox that we're winding down this, in many respects, difficult |
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