SI37: Is "Buy and Hold" the perfect investment strategy? and should you "Equal Weight"?

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Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Is ‘Buy & Hold’ the S&P500 index the perfect investment strategy? Should you apply Equal-Weighting across all of your Trading positions? Are long-term strategies the only way to avoid market noise? Also, we give our thoughts on why you should avoid ‘Fat-Tail Distributions’, Volatility versus Risk, how Trend Following strategies tend to ‘melt-up’ rather than crash down, and our upcoming Systematic Investor Series Live Event.

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Episode TimeStamps:

00:00 – Intro

01:55 – Weekly review of performance

06:30 – Live event update 10/26/19-10/27/19; 12 people

09:30 – Top tweets

52:20 – Question 1: Sam- Please discuss equal weighting positions.

01:00:30 – Benchmark performance update

01:01:50 – Final thoughts

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0:00.0	You're about to join Jerry Parker, Maritz Siebert, and Nealz Kostrup Larson on their raw and honest
0:07.2	journey into the world of systematic investing and learn about the most dependable and consistent
0:12.3	yet often overlooked investment strategy. Welcome to the Systematic Investor podcast series.
0:19.9	Jerry Parker and I, Niels Kastroh Larsen, are back with this week's edition of the
0:24.6	Systematic Investor Series, where each week we give you a raw and honest account of what
0:30.0	it's like to be a rules-based investor.
0:32.6	What news and articles call our attention?
0:35.2	Of course, we also attempt to answer all of your questions.
0:39.6	Moritz is out this week, so you just have the two of us.
0:44.9	So, good morning to you.
0:46.4	Jerry, how are you doing?
0:47.6	Good morning, Niels. How are you?
0:49.4	I'm doing very well.
0:50.9	I'm doing very well in a wet and rainy switzerland today but other than that i'm
0:55.5	doing fine um now it was a week with some healthy moves in in many of the markets i thought
1:03.4	when i was looking through kind of my usual list of about 50 markets i noticed quite a few of them
1:09.4	had you know four or five percent moves this week,
1:13.7	which is not bad for a single week.
1:17.4	On the upside, we had a lot of solid moves in grains and soft,
1:22.9	which enjoyed another week of counter-trend rallies rallies as far as I can tell.
1:28.3	And on the downside, it really was dominated by all things energy this week.
1:35.3	But also if we scale down and just look at markets that lost 1 or 2 percent,
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