TTU101: Should You Trust The Short-Term Over The Long-Term? ft. Nigol Koulajian of Quest Partners – 1of2

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

News, Business News, Business, Investing

4.8 • 712 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Nigol Koulajian is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Quest Partners LLC, and has been designing and trading short-term and long-term technical systems for over 22 years. Coming from Columbia business school, many of Nigol’s general practices seem counter-intuitive but have consistently yielded results. This interview will help get you deeper into the trading and management philosophy that has made Quest Partners such a successful firm.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

How Nigol got started with trading systems
How Quest Partners grew to where it is today
What Nigol has learned from his unique path into managed futures
Why clearly defining your process is value added to your product
Why Nigol is okay with always being in a state of failure
How developing nuance in his intuitive process has become Nigol’s greatest asset
What role meditation has played in Nigol’s career
What factors played into Quest’s success
Why Quest takes tail risk into account while normalizing returns
Why Nigol puts more trust in short-term over the long-term
Some of Nigol’s short-term trading strategies
What Nigol is studying right now
How writing white papers has helped Nigol’s relationships with his clients
Why focusing on your investors can be hurting your long-term growth
How Quest Partners has changed to fit the post-2010 financial climate
The problem with smart beta

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Investors should know where the sharp ratio is coming from and what is going to be the expected return in an equity crisis.
0:11.0	So that's critical and it needs to be done across multiple timeframes.
0:15.0	Right? So CTAs are a great equity hedge, but today they will not provide protection if it's a relatively quick correction.
0:24.5	If it's a two, three week correction, I would say CTAs will have a hard time.
0:29.3	Imagine spending an hour with the world's greatest traders.
0:33.0	Imagine learning from their experiences, their successes, their successes, and their failures.
0:39.3	Imagine no more. Welcome to Top Traders Unplugged, the place where you can learn from the best hedge fund managers in the world,
0:45.3	so you can take your manager due diligence or investment career to the next level.
0:50.3	Before we begin today's conversation, remember to keep two things in mind.
0:57.7	All the discussion we'll have about investment performance is about the past,
1:02.5	and past performance does not guarantee or even infer anything about future performance.
1:07.2	Also understand that there's a significant risk of financial loss with all investment strategies,
1:11.4	and you need to request and understand the specific risks from the investment manager about their product before you make investment decisions.
1:15.1	Here's your host, veteran hedge fund manager, Niels Kostrup Larson.
1:23.4	Nicole, welcome back to the podcast.
1:26.1	It's good to have you here.
1:27.6	And Katie and I are very excited to be having this conversation with you and to get a chance to do it all together here in Miami.
1:35.4	Now, it's been another surprising and for some exciting investment year, but also we want to refresh our minds a little bit before we get started
1:45.1	with what has happened in between. You were on the podcast a few years ago. So why don't
1:51.4	you refresh our minds a little bit about sort of your development firm-wise, maybe a little bit
1:57.7	of background to refresh people's mind on your own sort of a path into this
2:02.6	industry and then we'll jump into some of the exciting stuff that we can talk about today
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