TTU108: Big Opportunities in Exotic Markets? ft. Doug Greenig of Florin Court Capital – 1of2
Top Traders Unplugged
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen
4.8 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Today I’m joined by my co-host Moritz Seibert to speak with Doug Greenig, the Founder, CEO, and CIO at Florin Court Capital. Doug’s early experiences in economics at Princeton and UC Berkeley helped kick off his career in finance, and his work at BARRA in Berkeley started his eventual dive into the CTA space. Trading in exotic markets has helped Doug and his firm capitalize on unique opportunities and fully utilize the systematic trading model. Listen in to today’s episode to learn how Doug got started in systematic trading and exotic markets, how he built his team at Florin Court, and how he has utilized exotic markets to their fullest potential.
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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
- How Doug got started in finance
- Why Doug got into the CTA space
- How systematic trading intrigued Doug more than discretionary trading
- The inspiration behind the name Florin Court Capital
- Who influenced Doug in his financial career
- What Doug learned from working with Fischer Black (co-inventor of the Black-Scholes model)
- How Doug found such an experienced team in the early days of Florin Court Capital
- The exotic markets that Doug is trading
- What makes these exotic markets easier, or better to trade
- Where to find the right balance of exotic versus traditional markets
- What gives an asset more or less momentum, and why crypto is so special in this regard
- How Doug selects his markets, and his long-term strategy for maintaining that collection
- Why Florin Court Capital has stayed out of trading spot crypto
- How to adapt the different markets to the standard models
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| 0:00.0 | Generally, with our exotic portfolio, you're talking about needing, there's something like 12, 13 independent bets most of the time. |
| 0:16.3 | Whereas a standard CTA portfolio, it's a much, much smaller number. |
| 0:22.2 | So diversification is one reason it works better. |
| 0:26.1 | Imagine spending an hour with the world's greatest traders. |
| 0:30.0 | Imagine learning from their experiences, their successes, and their failures. |
| 0:34.4 | Imagine no more. |
| 0:36.3 | Welcome to Top Traders Unplugged, the place where you can learn from the |
| 0:40.3 | best hedge fund managers in the world so you can take your manager due diligence or investment |
| 0:45.1 | career to the next level. Before we begin today's conversation, remember to keep two things in |
| 0:50.4 | mind. All the discussion we'll have about investment performance is about the past, |
| 0:54.8 | and past performance does not guarantee or even infer anything about future performance. Also |
| 1:00.1 | understand that there's a significant risk of financial loss with all investment strategies, |
| 1:04.5 | and you need to request and understand the specific risks from the investment manager |
| 1:08.6 | about their product before you make investment |
| 1:10.8 | decisions. |
| 1:11.9 | Here's your host, veteran hedge fund manager, Niels Kostrup Larson. |
| 1:20.4 | Hey, everyone and welcome back to another edition of Top Traders on Plug, where today my co-host, |
| 1:25.7 | Moritz Siebert, and I are joined by Doc Greenick, |
| 1:28.9 | who is the founder, CEO and CIO at Florincourt Capital, a CTA that's backed by Swedish |
| 1:35.0 | hedge on platform giant, Bruma and partners. Now, Doc, thanks so much for coming on the podcast |
| 1:41.8 | with Moritz and me today. We really appreciate you spending |
| 1:44.6 | some time with us today and we're very excited about our conversation. Now, you have an |
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