TTU103: Trading In The Medium-Term Space ft. Harold de Boer of Transtrend – 1of2

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

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4.8 • 712 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Harold De Boer is a Managing Director, Member of Management Committee and Member of Board of Directors at Transtrend B.V. Growing up, Harold’s interest in statistics grew out of his work at his family’s dairy farm, and expanded into the world of trading and managed futures. Listen in to learn about Harold’s unique perspective on the industry, his marketing philosophy, and some of the most important lessons he’s learned during his successful career.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

How Harold got started with statistics at a young age
Why Harold’s first job as a mathematician was intended to be only temporary
How that first job transformed into Harold’s work at Transtrend
When the Turtles project was discovered by Transtrend in its early years
How being bought by a larger organization did not affect Transtrend’s operation
Some of Harold’s biggest lessons he has learned
How his time on a dairy farm informs Harold’s approach to trend following
What investors underestimate and don’t understand about managed futures
The only thing that actually drives the markets
How market dynamics changed as a result of the transition from floor trading to electronic trading
Why Harold believes that Transtrends program should be called “medium-term”
Why Harold believes positive alpha does not actually exist

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0:00.0	If market people are trading, say, understanding and a lot of money is going through markets,
0:09.0	understanding that with what you are doing, you are part of the market, then you move the market,
0:13.0	it's a different way of market dynamics than when there's a lot of money coming in and flying through the market with the idea,
0:18.0	I can buy, I can sell, and it has no impact.
0:22.0	Then the impact is the biggest.
0:25.3	Imagine spending an hour with the world's greatest traders.
0:29.0	Imagine learning from their experiences, their successes, and their failures.
0:33.5	Imagine no more.
0:35.3	Welcome to Top Traders Unplugged, the place where you can learn from the best hedge fund
0:40.2	managers in the world so you can take your manager due diligence or investment career to the next level.
0:46.2	Before we begin today's conversation, remember to keep two things in mind. All the discussion
0:50.9	we'll have about investment performance is about the past, and past performance does not guarantee or even infer anything about future performance.
0:58.9	Also understand that there's a significant risk of financial loss with all investment strategies,
1:03.2	and you need to request and understand the specific risks from the investment manager about their product before you make investment decisions.
1:11.0	Here's your host, veteran hedge fund manager, Niels Kostrup Larson.
1:19.5	Harold, welcome to Top Traders on Plug.
1:22.2	We're so excited and honored to have you with us today.
1:25.4	Both Katie and I have really looked forward to hearing your perspective on many of the issues
1:29.9	surrounding our industry and your firm, in particular, during our conversation.
1:34.7	But before we get to all that juicy stuff, perhaps you can start out to tell a little bit
1:40.1	about your background and how you got involved in this industry and then we might talk a little
1:46.5	bit about the history of trans trend as well I'm harold I'm born on a dairy farm and when I was a
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