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. Welcome to the systematic investor podcast series.

More it's deeper than I, Neil's Kasbalas. I'm back with this week's edition of the Systematic Investor Series, which is our weekly

ongoing raw exploration of the world of rule space investing.

And of course, where we're also tried to take some of your questions.

But today we're going to deviate a bit from our usual format because we are delighted to be joined by a very

special guest, namely Rob Carver, who couldn't have come at a better time to discuss the pros and

cons of rules-based investing. So let me start by saying, welcome back to the show, Rob. It's been a while.

It has been. I think it's been about four years. So, yeah, it's really good to be back on.

Yeah, great, great to have you. And of course, Moritz, good afternoon to you. How are you doing?

Hey, I'm doing great. Good afternoon. Neals. Hello, Rob. Great to have you with us today. Thanks, Marks. Now, we have a lot of things to talk to you about Rob,

but since we usually do a quick run-through of the week

in terms of what took place inside the trend-finding portfolios that we work with,

maybe I can suggest that you grab an extra cup of coffee

while Marge and I just do a quick run-through

and when we'll be

straight back just talking with you about all things systematic trading I guess so quick run

through for me I mean of course it was a historic week that just came to an end in terms of

market moves not seen since the financial crisis,

and some one-day moves, not seen since the stock market crash in 1987.

Despite a very strong finish on Wall Street yesterday, US stocks still managed to finish down

between 10 and 17%, depending on which index you look at for the week.

German stocks finished down 17% for the week.

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