TTU05: What You Must Do To Survive In the CTA Business ft. Tushar Chande – 1of2

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show I am talking to Tushar Chande, Co-Founder and Head of Research at Rho Asset Management. Tushar is also the author of a number of books on the topic of how to design rule based trading systems as well as having been actively trading these systems for more than 20 years.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

Why the random nature of the markets attracted Tushar to develop systems for trading these markets
Background information on Rho Asset Management and it’s philosophy
How Tushar utilizes behaviors of discretionary traders to make estimates of conviction about their individual trades
How Rho has designed it’s Altius Program to offer meaningful protection when equity markets go down
What to be aware of when exploring an Asset Manager’s performance over a 20 year period
Offense/Defense Ratio, What it means and How to use it to Measure the quality of systems design
How Rho’s models have been designed in order to achieve the overall objective of the Program
What Trend Following Indicators are used for and why
Exploring the volatility of the equity curve
The input data needed to run the Altius Program, the time it takes and when they run the model

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0:00.0	You're listening to Top Traders on Plot, episode number 0.05 with Tushar Chande, co-founder and head of research at Roe Asset Management.
0:10.5	This episode is sponsored by Saxo Bank and Swiss Financial Services.
0:15.6	Imagine spending an hour with the world's greatest traders.
0:19.5	Imagine learning from their experiences, their
0:21.8	successes, and their failures. Imagine no more. Welcome to Top Traders Unplugged, the place
0:28.4	where you can learn from the best hedge fund managers in the world so you can take
0:32.3	your manager due diligence or investment career to the next level. Here's your host, veteran hedge fund manager,
0:39.0	Niels Kastrop Larson.
0:48.5	Welcome to another episode of Top Traders Unplocked.
0:51.7	Thanks so much for tuning in today.
0:53.8	I really do appreciate it.
0:55.8	On today's show, I'm talking to Tushar Shanda, co-founder and head of research at Roe Asset Management.
1:03.1	Tusha is the author of a number of books on the topic of how to design rule-based trading systems,
1:09.3	as well as having been actively trading these systems
1:12.0	for more than 20 years. So he brings real unique insight to what it takes to design and run
1:18.3	a successful systematic trading program. For those of you who are new to the show, I just want
1:25.0	to let you know that you can find all of the show notes,
1:27.9	including a full transcript of today's episode on the top traders onplogged.com website.
1:35.2	Now let's get started with part one of my conversation. I hope you will enjoy it.
1:48.0	Tusha, good morning, it's Niels. Morning, Niels, how are you?
1:50.0	I'm doing very well, thanks.
1:52.0	Tusha, before we jump into all the specific questions that we want to cover today
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