TTU104: The Passive & The Active Investor ft. Harold de Boer of Transtrend – 2of2

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Katy Kaminski and I continue our conversation with Harold de Boer, and discuss his philosophy behind pure trend and divergent trading, as well as why Harold believes Transtrend is unique in the managed future space. In this episode, we talk about the benefits of synthetic trading, Harold’s advice to a new rising star, and what he is looking forward to going forward.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

How Harold views pure trend and divergent trading within Transtrend
What pure trend means today in comparison to what it used to mean
What it means to Harold to serve his clients best through his trading
How trading synthetic markets helps to profit from trends
What Harold thinks is unique about Transtrend’s trading model
The research projects that inspire Harold right now
Why Harold believes it’s unrealistic to expect returns without volatility
The differences between the passive and active investor
What excites Harold about 2018
The things that scare Harold and keep him up at night
Why risk management should be done by anticipation, not by response

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0:00.0	So if our systems constantly sell cordon on a wrong moment, then we try to find out what's going wrong here.
0:12.0	What's happening here? Why is this, why don't we get good information from that market?
0:18.0	And when we do things like that, we look at what's fundamentally happening
0:21.4	there, and that can lead to some change in the structure of the system or make another
0:26.3	synthetic market to be able to read better the underlying thing.
0:31.0	Welcome back to Top Traders Unplugged, where the best traders in the world come to share
0:35.7	their experiences, their successes, and their failures.
0:39.1	Before we begin today's conversation, remember to keep two things in mind.
0:43.3	All the discussion we'll have about investment performance is about the past,
0:47.0	and past performance does not guarantee or even infer anything about future performance.
0:52.2	Also understand that there's a significant risk of financial loss with all investment strategies,
0:57.1	and you need to request and understand the specific risks from the investment manager
1:01.3	about their product before you make investment decisions.
1:04.4	Now let's rejoin the conversation with your host, veteran hedge fund manager,
1:08.8	Neil's Kastra Blerc.
1:10.0	I don't know. Your host, veteran hedge fund manager, Niels Kostra-Belarsin.
1:14.8	We support negative halber.
1:18.1	And that's what we strive to do.
1:25.1	So Harold, you mentioned a little bit about risk premia, and I thought we'd turn towards trend.
1:26.3	And I think this is something that I think that I know in the past I've heard you talk a lot
1:31.4	about how trans trend is focused on pure trend and on divergent trading.
1:36.9	So I thought it'd be nice if you could kind of give us a glimpse into that philosophy
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