SI74: Trading TESLA during its parabolic move
Top Traders Unplugged
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
4.8 • 712 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
This week, we discuss how Jerry approached his Tesla trade during last week’s parabolic move up, the value of sleeping well at night in comparison to chasing maximum returns, whether Trend Following models can be successfully tilted toward ESG (Sustainable) Investments, thoughts on Negative & Positive Skew, the perceived drawbacks of CTA diversification when stocks are going up, and we also compare Trend Following on stocks, to a fully diversified, Trend Following system. Questions we answer this week include: What do you do next when you have a significant amount of new AUM? Do you have any tips or methods, whether psychologically or built into your models, for handling euphoric gains? How many markets, and how much allocation to each market, do you recommend when constructing a Trading Universe?
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Episode TimeStamps:
00:00 – Intro
01:08 – Macro recap from Niels
01:44 – Weekly review of performance
04:59 – Top Tweets
18:45 – Announcement of special guest Eric Crittenden, from Standpoint Asset Management, joining us on the show in a few weeks
26:21 – Jacob; Question 1: When you have a significant amount of new available equity, what do you do next?
32:57 – James; Question 2: How do you manage a position that makes a Parabolic move, such as Tesla?
41:18 – Matt: Question 3: What methods do you use to handle euphoric gains?
01:01:51 – Camron; Question 4: What is the best way to compile a Trading Universe? How many markets, and how much allocation to each market?
01:04:42 – Sam; Question 5: Are you aware of any Trend Following Traders who tilt towards ESG (Sustainable Investing)?
01:07:23 – Seth; In response to last week’s request to listeners, shares how he thinks TF should be best described as an important part of your portfolio
01:10:30 – Benchmark performance update
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Transcript
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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 journey into the world of systematic investing and learn about the most dependable and consistent yet often overlooked investment strategy. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to the Systematic Investor podcast series. |
| 0:22.8 | Welcome or welcome back to this week's edition of the systematic investor series with |
| 0:27.4 | Jared Parker, Moritz Sieber and I, Niels Karzablasen, where we each week take the pulse |
| 0:31.7 | of the global market through the lens of a rules-based investor. |
| 0:35.3 | For long-time listeners, our conversations are intended to keep you focused and inspired to continue your trend-following journey. |
| 0:41.9 | And if you are newer to the show, our hope is that today's episode will prime you to peruse the back catalog and check out episodes you may have missed. |
| 0:52.7 | Jerry Moritz, how are you guys doing this evening in Switzerland, Europe? |
| 0:58.4 | Yeah, good evening, good afternoon. |
| 1:00.1 | Jerry, doing fine. |
| 1:01.7 | Well, it's nice to be wide awake for a change. |
| 1:04.9 | Yes. |
| 1:05.4 | Do the podcast. |
| 1:06.1 | I'm usually wide awake at some point in time. |
| 1:08.8 | Absolutely. |
| 1:09.5 | For those who may not catch this internal talk here, we're recording Friday evening, European |
| 1:15.7 | time, which is not our usual recording time. |
| 1:20.7 | You know, obviously, it's been an interesting week, kind of more calm than what we've |
| 1:25.5 | seen at the beginning or at the end of January. |
| 1:29.4 | So some of the trends have come back in vogue that we saw in the beginning of the year. |
| 1:34.8 | Of course, the talk of the town this week is Tesla, |
| 1:37.5 | and I can already reveal that we have questions about that. |
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