SI123: The benefits of NOT taking profits too early ft. Moritz Seibert
Top Traders Unplugged
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
4.8 • 712 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In today’s show, we discuss the benefits of not taking profits too early during huge price moves, how a Trend Follower might be trading Bitcoin, if March 2020 may have impacted a Trend Follower’s approach to the markets, why the S&P 500 could be considered just as much of an ‘alternative’ market as Iron Ore, our most memorable trades, Bitcoin as a great diversifier in a Trend Following portfolio, and how a retail trader can gain access to managed futures. Questions we answer this week include: What prompted Moritz to place his Tesla short trade recently, and how did it play out? What are your views on stop-losses?
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Episode TimeStamps:
00:00 – Intro
01:40 – Macro recap from Niels
05:06 – Weekly review of performance
53:15 – Q1; Carlos: Has March 2020 impacted how you view your Trend Following approach?
59:14 – Q2; James: Why did Moritz place a discretionary short-trade on Tesla last month? Why does Dunn Capital avoid using stop-losses? What are your most memorable trades?
01:12:09 – Q3; Peter: Do you recommend any particular brokers?
01:17:30 – Q4; Craig: What are your thoughts on managed futures ETFs?
01:20:22 – Benchmark performance update
01:21:21 – Recommended listening or reading this week: Macro Voices Podcast ft Art Berman & Danielle Dimartino-Booth on The Felder Report Podcast
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to join Jerry Parker, Maritz Seabert, 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. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome or welcome back to this week's edition of the systematic investor series with |
| 0:26.9 | Maurice Siebert and I, Niels Castro-Larsen, where each week we take the pulse of the global |
| 0:31.4 | market through the lens of a rules-based investor. |
| 0:35.1 | And for those of you who are regular listeners, our conversations are really intended to keep |
| 0:39.9 | you focused and inspired to continue your rules-based investing journey. |
| 0:44.0 | And if you're new to the show, we hope that today's episode will trigger some curiosity |
| 0:48.6 | to check out the back catalog and listen to the past episodes that you may have missed. |
| 0:53.6 | Like last week's episode with |
| 0:55.3 | Rob Carver, where we took a deep dive into some really interesting topics and of course also |
| 0:59.9 | did a roundup of the year 2020 and how Rob's trend following models had experienced the year. |
| 1:08.4 | Moritz, great to be back with you in the new year. How are you doing? How things where you are? |
| 1:12.8 | Good. Everything's fine. And high, Neels, by the way. It's snowing here, south of Munich, winter |
| 1:19.0 | wonderland. Everything's white. Looking forward to some skiing later on this afternoon, |
| 1:23.8 | cross-country skiing. That is, there's really nothing else that's possible to do here. |
| 1:27.7 | But great weather in the middle of winter and great starts at the year as well, trading-wise. |
| 1:33.5 | Yes, we'll definitely dig into that. |
| 1:35.3 | I think we have to make the most of the opportunity to talk about trend on a strong note. |
| 1:40.7 | But before we do that, let me try and wrap up the week. |
| 1:44.1 | You know, despite the bears |
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