SI183: Nickel Short Squeeze & Trend Following in an Unstable World ft. Jerry Parker
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Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
4.8 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Jerry Parker joins me in today’s episode to discuss trend following as a robust guide to the markets in a world of instability and insecurity. We also discuss the recent short squeeze in nickel which has led to an unprecidented response from the LME, how to develop a trend following system, and what to do if you miss a breakout trade. We dive into when to trade index-based products vs. single stocks, how to manage trailing stops, and Jerry's decision to stop doing trend following research and rounding off our conversation with interesting and somewhat provocative tweets from Jerry.
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In this episode, we discuss:
- Trend following and volatility in relation to the current situation in Ukraine
- The recent short squeeze in nickel trading and the reaction from the LME
- Tips and tricks to grow as a trend follower
- How to develop a good trend following system
- How to manage trailing stops
- How Jerry managed his short Russian stock position
- What Jerry will focus on as he stops doing Trend Following Research
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Episode TimeStamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:40 - Summary of the week
08:03 - What happened this week with nickel trading
14:53 - Q1, Josh: Any tips and tricks for Trend Following investing and ETFs?
31:57 - Q2, William: How do you react following a missed breakout?
37:11 - Q3, ABE: Is it wise to avoid Index-based products and how to trade CTA Index Futures? How do CTAs as an industry, become part of the...
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to join Neil's Kostrup Larson on a raw and honest journey into the world of systematic investing and learn about the most dependable and consistent yet often overlooked investment strategy. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to the Systematic Investor series |
| 0:28.0 | with Jerry Parker and me, Niels Karstallastel Larsen, where each week we take the pulse of |
| 0:31.9 | the global market through the lens of a rules-based investor. For those of you who are regular |
| 0:36.0 | listeners, our conversations are intended for you to learn and grow as rules-based investors. For those of you who are regular listeners, our conversations are intended for you to learn |
| 0:38.9 | and grow as rules-based investors. |
| 0:40.9 | And if you're new to the show, |
| 0:42.3 | we hope that today's episode |
| 0:43.4 | will trigger your curiosity to check out the catalog |
| 0:46.3 | and listen to past episodes that you may have missed, |
| 0:49.3 | like last week's episode with Rob, |
| 0:51.3 | where we discussed more aspects |
| 0:53.3 | of working with investment strategies |
| 0:55.3 | that potentially do well when crises occur before answering lots of questions from our community. |
| 1:01.7 | So if you haven't listened to that one, I encourage you to go and check that out. |
| 1:06.3 | Jerry, always great to be back with you. |
| 1:08.7 | How are you doing? |
| 1:09.5 | How are things where you are? |
| 1:11.2 | Great. Thanks for having me, Neels. It's good to see you. Good to be back. I listen to all the |
| 1:16.3 | podcasts. You do multiple times. Tweet them, use them for my own benefit, but I really do enjoy them, |
| 1:23.1 | but it's always good to be back. And I am traveling today. I'm'm in New York City so I've been having a lot of |
| 1:29.6 | fun up here and it's New York is back but I think we may get some snow today so that's that could be fun |
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