TTU109: Risk Mitigation Whilst Trading Exotic Markets ft. Doug Greenig of Florin Court Capital – 2of2

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Moritz Seibert and I continue our conversation with Doug Greenig, talking about the many different ways risk can manifest in your firm, how best to minimize it, and why building a strong team is one of the most important elements in staying ahead in the trend following space. Listen in to learn the many benefits of getting into exotic markets, how to best manage your risk, and what all investors should be asking themselves to better their portfolio.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

What makes the exotic market space so good to trade in right now
How Doug knows there is still a lot of room left for trading in the exotic market space
The difficulties Doug has had in attracting investors to investing in exotic markets
Why momentum should be your key signal when investing in exotic markets
The role cash equities play in Doug’s portfolio
Why Doug has reservations in trading VIX
The different varieties of risk and how to minimize them
The importance of focusing on model risk
Benefits of building and maintaining a good team
What questions investors should be asking themselves

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0:00.0	The first thing is you want to make sure that you have a broad spectrum of momentum frequencies
0:10.0	everywhere. It makes it more robust. You don't want a system where the kind of, sometimes people
0:19.0	will talk about a performance heat map you want it to be robust so that
0:25.3	at slightly different frequencies different shuffles of the data that performance is reasonable
0:33.6	welcome back to top traders unplugged where the best traders in the world come to share their experiences, their successes, and their failures.
0:42.0	Before we begin today's conversation, remember to keep two things in mind.
0:46.1	All the discussion we'll have about investment performance is about the past,
0:49.8	and past performance does not guarantee or even infer anything about future performance.
0:55.0	Also understand that there's a significant risk of financial loss with all investment strategies,
1:00.0	and you need to request and understand the specific risks from the investment manager
1:04.1	about their product before you make investment decisions.
1:07.3	Now let's rejoin the conversation with your host, veteran hedge fund manager, Niels Kastra Blanderson.
1:16.2	I read an article the other day, actually, about the AUM in funds that focuses on exotic markets.
1:22.7	And your firm was definitely mentioned in that article.
1:25.9	And it talked about the total assets in those kind of strategy,
1:29.8	having gone out from about a billion dollars five years ago
1:32.7	to their estimating $7 billion today or I think was the number.
1:37.8	And of course, I know that your firm has grown a lot as well.
1:41.2	But how do you view that development and how big as a space, not necessarily
1:47.7	as a firm, but as a space can this become without too many people chasing the same exotic markets?
1:56.6	I think that the space has a fair bit of room to grow.
2:10.0	The CTA space has, I think, about 300 to 350 billion in AUM.
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