SI134: Sticking with Short Positions ft. Jerry Parker
Top Traders Unplugged
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
4.8 • 712 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Jerry Parker is back on the show with us today to discuss why short positions are beneficial to a profitable trading strategy, the importance of not over-tweaking an already good system, the case for Trend Following as the dominant strategy in an investment portfolio, the amount of volatility that can be regarded as too risky, and Jerry calls out Niels for a future debate regarding the possible uses of multi-timeframe analysis.
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In this episode, we discuss:
- The reasons for avoiding a long-only trading system
- Knowing when 'good enough' is good enough
- Why investors may be allocating to Trend Following in the wrong amounts
- When volatility equates to risk
- Approaches to multi-timeframe analysis
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Episode TimeStamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:46 - Macro recap from Niels
04:34 - Weekly review of returns
46:37 - Q1; Marcus: What is Jerry’s approach to shorting stocks?
49:50 - Q2 & Q3; Nathaniel: Do you have any suggestions for reliable ‘predictors of return’? Do you recommend trading futures that are in backwardation?
57:16 - Q4; Nick: Are there advantages to trading markets that are unusually volatile?
01:00:07 - Performance recap
01:01:00 - Recommended listening or reading this week.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to join Jerry Parker, Maritz Siebert, and Neil's Kostrup Larson on their |
| 0:06.3 | raw and honest journey into the world of systematic investing and learn about the most |
| 0:11.0 | dependable and consistent yet often overlooked investment strategy. |
| 0:15.1 | Welcome to the Systematic Investor podcast series. |
| 0:21.7 | Welcome and welcome back to this week's edition of the Systematic Investor series |
| 0:25.9 | with Jerry Parker and me, Nils Kastro Blasen, where each week we take the pulse of the global |
| 0:30.6 | market through the lens of a rules-based investor. |
| 0:34.2 | For those of you who are regular listeners, our conversations are intended for you to learn and grow as rules-based investors. |
| 0:41.2 | And if you are new to the show, we hope that today's episode will trigger your curiosity to check out the back catalog and listen to the past episodes that you may have missed. |
| 0:50.3 | Like last week's episode with Rob, where we talked about how investors with smaller trading accounts |
| 0:55.8 | can get exposure to commodities and how to deal with intraday volatility and much more. |
| 1:02.8 | Jerry, as always, great to see you. |
| 1:05.0 | Great to have you back this week. |
| 1:06.5 | How are things where you are in Florida? |
| 1:10.1 | It's great. |
| 1:10.8 | It actually is getting a little cold here for maybe hopefully our last little cold snap |
| 1:15.2 | before it starts getting incredibly warm and nice and I try to find a cooler place. |
| 1:20.9 | But that's great here. |
| 1:22.2 | Trading's been good. |
| 1:24.7 | Still keeping going, I think the period that the trends that most of them started around November, |
| 1:31.3 | it's a magical period for a trend following. It is indeed and we're going to talk a lots more about |
| 1:36.2 | that for sure. And yes, I actually heard also from my colleagues in Florida that they were actually |
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