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Top Traders Unplugged

SI12: What causes drawdowns and how to deal with them

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8670 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 60 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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00:00 – Intro

01:45 – Weekly review of performance

14:55 – Top tweets

39:40 – Referenced paper: Stock market charts you never saw by McQuarrie

40:15 – Question 1: Patrick; Longer question on notional exposure relative to actual capital

47:05 – Question 2: Brian; What causes drawdowns in TF?

56:05 – Benchmark performance update

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're about to join Jerry Parker, Maritz Siebert, and Nealz Kastrup 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.

0:19.6

Jerry Parker, Moritz Siebert, and I, Nealz Kastro Blasen, are delighted to be back with this

0:24.8

week's edition of the Systematic Investor Series.

0:27.9

And as usual, we're going to discuss last week's events, but also the events of the month

0:33.7

of November in the world of rule-based investing and take some of your questions.

0:40.1

So good afternoon to you, Moritz. Good morning to you, Jerry. How are things?

0:45.1

Hello, Neals. Good. Yes, great. Thank you. Perfect. Perfect. Well, as I mentioned, it's the end of

0:51.4

another week, but it's also the end of another month, which certainly did not disappoint when it comes to the news flow and the action in the markets and the volatility that we've seen.

1:03.5

So I'm sure we'll have a few interesting things to review and see how it all played out for us who operate in the systematic investment world.

1:16.3

So why don't we just kick it off?

1:20.0

I mean, I think as for people who are listening to our conversation each week, I'm sure

1:25.5

it's no surprise that it was a difficult month and that

1:30.1

you know, CTAs, trend followers will be for the most part in the red. So not just red October.

1:37.0

Now we have red November. We'll have to put an end to these red months. But anyways,

1:42.0

what did you guys see, experience, what caught your eyes,

1:47.6

what was interesting about the month? Why don't we start with you, Moritz? How is the month of

1:54.6

November? Looking back on the month, a choppy month, not as red as October, so more like

2:00.7

a light red, minus one and a

2:02.4

half, two, minus two. Pink, pink November, maybe. Pink November, exactly. Looking back on the

2:08.9

past month, sure, we had the big move down in oil. I think we changed positions on the back

2:16.2

of that, maybe made some money there.

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