SI147: The Perfect Exit Strategy ft. Moritz Seibert

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Moritz Seibert joins us today discuss the benefits of stripping down your trading approach as much as possible, the various ways to exit a hugely profitable trade, the different forms of research related to your investing approach, simplification vs over-complication, the acceptable amount of margin per trade, spread-betting using a Trend Following strategy, and if you should trade all markets the same way or tailor to each market accordingly.

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In this episode, we discuss:

The benefits of simplifying your trading approach as much as possible
Optimal exits from hugely profitable trades
How to engage in related to your investment approach
Over complicating a trading strategy
Acceptable margin amounts
Spread-trading using a Trend Following strategy

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Episode TimeStamps:

00:00 - Intro

02:28 - Macro recap from Niels

03:53 - Weekly review of returns

11:01 - The commodities reflation trade and Moritz’s trade in Lumber

14:32 - Q1 & Q2; Andreas: How do you justify your fee structure? What long-term returns should we expect from a short-term CTA? At what point does enhancing a strategy become over-complicating it?

29:20 - Q3; Mark: What are some of the best look back periods?

34:13 - Q4; Frank: Do CTAs place any importance on the Commitment of Traders report?

41:14 - Q5; John: What is a normal...

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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 dependable
0:11.6	and consistent yet often overlooked investment strategy. Welcome to the Systematic Investor podcast series.
0:22.5	Welcome or welcome back to this week's edition of the Systematic Investor Series,
0:26.1	with Moritz Sieber and I, Neil's Castleblaston,
0:28.2	where each week we take the pulse of the global markets through the lens of a rules-based
0:32.9	investor.
0:33.9	If you're new to the show, let me start by saying welcome, with the hope that today's episode
0:38.2	will trigger your curiosity and hunger for learning enough to check out the back catalog
0:43.0	and listen to the past episodes that you may have missed.
0:46.5	Like last week's episode with Rob, where we had a lot of really great questions that had been
0:52.0	sent in and where we also discussed how you can combine
0:55.3	simple trend following models into a balanced and robust trading system and a lot more.
1:02.0	So if you missed that episode, I invite you to go and check it out.
1:05.8	Also, let me quickly give a shout out to all of you who took the time to leave us a rating and
1:13.0	review this week. And I really loved a couple of them that I want to highlight. One was from
1:18.1	Somelier, from the US. I have a feeling I actually know who that might be. And he wrote,
1:24.6	would you like to have a coffee each week with the trading legends?
1:29.3	This is your opportunity.
1:31.2	And maybe that's a good way to think about what we do, namely,
1:34.6	on having an ongoing and casual, pretty honest conversation of what it's like to be a trend for.
1:41.4	And then let me also mention a great one from Abbey in India who headed this
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