SI161: Retaking the Turtle Trader Entrance Exam ft. Jerry Parker

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Jerry Parker joins us for a very special episode today, where we invite him to answer the original interview questions from Richard Dennis’s famous Turtle Trader program. This is a fascinating insight into the world of Trend Following, and one which allows us to see whether Jerry has changed his opinions since working Richard Dennis, as well as explain some of his reasons for the answers chosen today. We’ve posted the questions in the timestamps below, so feel free to take the test and compare your answers to Jerry’s.

Also check out my interview with Turtle Trading legendary mentor Richard Dennis here.

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In this episode, we discuss:

Favouring long or short positions
How you can go broke taking small profits
Reasons to ‘fade the fundamentals’
The importance of down-time and vacations
Whether we can rely on opinions of the crowd
System diversification
Why you should trade small
The questions that Jerry would add to the Turtle Trader test today
Avoiding trades due to gaps in price

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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.
0:15.2	Welcome to the Systematic Investor Podcast series.
0:19.7	Welcome and welcome back to this week. podcast series.
0:27.4	Welcome and welcome back to this week's edition of the Systematic Investor Series with Jerry Parker and me, Nils Castor Larsen, where each week we take the pulse of the global market
0:31.9	through the lens of a rules-based investor.
0:34.6	For those of you who are regular listeners, our conversations are intended for you
0:38.4	to learn and grow as a rules-based investor. And if you're new to the show, we hope that today's
0:42.7	episode will trigger your curiosity to check out the back catalog and listen to past episodes that
0:47.6	you may have missed. Like last week's episode, with Rob, where he discussed some new changes
0:53.2	that he's made to his system and also revealed
0:56.3	what his next book is going to be about. Jerry, always great to be back with you. How are you doing?
1:03.7	Where are you today, so to speak?
1:06.3	I'm doing well. Thanks for having me. I'm in Tampa, Florida, and I'm going to be here for a while.
1:12.2	So it's really great here, really nice. I did enjoy that Rob, as always, and I love listening
1:20.5	to Rob. I love being on with Rob. I love his comments about me. I can't wait to see him again.
1:27.4	And always, you know what I do with the podcast?
1:29.2	I wait until it comes out.
1:31.1	Well, I don't wait.
1:32.2	I listen to it on Spotify.
1:34.0	Then when it comes out on YouTube, I watch listen again so I can utilize the transcript
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