SI47: Don't fall in Love with your positions
Top Traders Unplugged
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
4.8 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
This week, we discuss the importance of avoiding any emotional attachments to your positions, how correlated markets can affect your portfolio, how to decide which trades to execute when your signals outweigh the amount of equity available to trade, and we also give our thoughts on Margin-to-Equity related to Position Sizing. Questions answered this week include: does uncertainty in the markets have any negative effects on Trend Following strategies? Can the S&P 500 ever be a good comparison when gauging Trend Following performance? Are there any signals that can reliably measure trend strength? When Trend Following strategies aren’t working, should you apply any other strategies? Does Jerry trade Index Futures or single stocks?
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Episode TimeStamps:
00:00 – Intro
01:50 – Request for podcast reviews
02:45 – Macro recap from Niels
06:45 – Weekly review of performance
08:50 – Live event update 10/26/19-10/27/19
09:50 – Top tweets
44:30 – Question 1: Sandeep; Please discuss market correlations.
49:40 – Questions 2/3: James; When adding new markets to a system, what are you looking for? How do you calculate trend strength?
01:00:30 – Question 4: Dante; What strategy should one use in high volatility periods?
01:04:30 – Question 5: Ali; How do you pick the markets in your system?
01:09:20 – Question 6: Ali; Will Jerry please discuss how he trades single stocks
01:13:00 – Question 7: Ali; Can you recommend a broker?
01:14:15 –...
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to join Jerry Parker, Maritz Seabert, and Neil's Kostrup Larson on their |
| 0:06.1 | raw and honest journey into the world of systematic investing and learn about the most dependable |
| 0:11.4 | and consistent yet often overlooked investment strategy. |
| 0:14.9 | Welcome to the Systematic Investor podcast series. |
| 0:19.5 | Welcome back to this week's edition of the Symmatic Investor series with Jerry Parker |
| 0:24.9 | and I, Neil's Castle, where we do our best to bring you into the world of rules-based |
| 0:29.9 | investing by sharing our knowledge and hard-learned lessons over the past few decades, hoping |
| 0:35.3 | that you can avoid making some of the mistakes that we did. |
| 0:39.2 | If this is the first time you're tuning in, welcome. |
| 0:42.3 | It's great to have you here, and we look forward to our journey together. |
| 0:47.5 | Moritz is unfortunately unable to join us today, but he will be back next week. |
| 0:53.8 | So let me start as usual by saying good |
| 0:56.8 | afternoon to you Jerry how are you doing doing well thank you how are you it's |
| 1:00.6 | yes first time I've ever I've ever been able to say good afternoon because we're |
| 1:05.4 | recording in the afternoon in the eastern time so I miss Moritz but hopefully |
| 1:10.2 | next week. |
| 1:17.5 | Absolutely. Absolutely. We need to fix his technical issues for sure before next week. |
| 1:23.7 | I want to start out just giving a big shout out to Spy Surfer, who jumped into the Canadian iTunes store this week and left a very nice rating and review. |
| 1:28.0 | We highly appreciate this, which I'm sure you have already heard me say, but also I want |
| 1:34.2 | to give a shout out to everyone else who took time to leave a rating and review in their |
| 1:39.7 | local iTunes store. |
| 1:40.7 | I don't check all of them, so I kind of follow the US and Canadian one in particular. |
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