SI188: Trading with Style ft. Jerry Parker
Top Traders Unplugged
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
4.8 • 712 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Jerry Parker joins us in today’s episode, to discuss pros and cons of adding different trading styles to your strategy and how to react when bad periods occur, using borrowed money as part of a systematic trading approach, expected returns of equities, finding the best investment strategy, achieving a high level of consistency in your Trend Following returns, using AI and Machine Learning to predict the future, Divergent Regimes and how they may last a lot longer this time, the geometry of classic Trend Following, what it takes to succeed and much more.
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In this episode, we discuss:
- If it helps adding different styles to your trading strategy
- If you should use borrowed money as part of a systematic trading approach
- How to find the best investment strategy
- How to achieve a high level of consistency in your returns
- The use of AI and Machine Learning...does it improve your returns
- Divergent Regimes and the end of Carry
- The geometry of classic Trend Following
- What it takes to succeed
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Episode TimeStamps:
00:00 - Intro
05:02 - What’s been on Jerry’s radar?
07:30 - Q1, Isaiah - Add trading styles or stick with the “Trend Following + nothing”?
19:31 - Q2, Nick - About leverage and using borrowed money
25:40 - Jerry's Tweets
38:30 - Consistency in returns & how to achieve this
43:15 - AI and Machine Learning
49:27 - Divergent Regimes
56:51 - Geometry of trend following
01:01:04 - Inertia of success
01:04:45 - Deep Roots article by Morgan Housel
01:06:27 - Performance update
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Transcript
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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 with |
| 0:27.8 | Jerry Parker and me, Niels Karstblastelasten, where each week we take the pulse of the global markets |
| 0:31.9 | through the lens of a rules-based investor. Now, for those of you who are regular listeners, |
| 0:36.7 | our conversations are intended for you to learn and grow as rules-based investors. And if you're new to the show, |
| 0:42.0 | we hope that today's episode will trigger your curiosity to check out the back catalog and |
| 0:46.1 | listen to past episodes that you may have missed. Like last week's episode with Tim Pickering, |
| 0:50.9 | who made a return to the podcast and where we really explored the area of commodities, which I thoroughly enjoyed. |
| 0:58.0 | And if you missed that episode, I encourage you to go back and check it out right after today's episode. |
| 1:04.1 | Jerry, always great, always a pleasure to have you on. |
| 1:08.0 | So how are you doing? Where are you today? |
| 1:10.8 | Well, it's good to see you too. I'm great. I had a busy week and I'm enjoying these good markets. |
| 1:16.6 | So that, you know, unfortunately, determines my mood, these markets. Can you believe that? |
| 1:25.6 | Sometimes I'll sit here and go through my charts |
| 1:27.8 | and when I start hitting the grain markets and it's been a good day I'll get up |
| 1:33.0 | and reward myself with maybe some chocolate or a glass of wine or something so I'm |
| 1:38.5 | highly influenced by profits and losses shocking theocking. Shocking to hear. |
| 1:45.9 | Well, it just makes you human like everyone else, Jerry, which is fine. |
| 1:50.6 | Now, I am not going to do my usual kind of market summary, partly because it's a holiday |
| 1:56.4 | week and, you know, there's no really big surprise out there as such, except maybe for one thing |
| 2:03.3 | that I came across, which I thought was quite fun and interesting and maybe something that |
| 2:08.8 | many people, in addition to myself, was not really aware of. But, you know, each week we talk a lot |
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