TTU144: Turtle Trading 2.0? ft. Brian Proctor, Managing Director at EMC Capital Advisors

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Join us as we sit down with Brian Proctor, Managing Director at EMC Capital Advisors, for an insightful conversation on the evolution of their trading methodology since the early days of the Turtle Program. Discover what sets them apart from competitors and the key factors they believe contribute to a successful CTA. Explore their use of algorithms to balance risk in a volatile market and how trading systems can adapt while staying true to their origins. Gain insights into their approach to managing current market volatility, distinguishing between trend following and momentum, building reliable systems, expanding their market portfolio, and much more. Don't miss this engaging discussion!

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Episode Timestamps:

02:19 - Introduction to EMC Capital Advisors

07:30 - Their investment philosophy

10:30 - What differentiates them from their peers?

12:33 - The key to succes

14:06 - Their approach to open equity

17:22 - Staying true to trend following

20:13 - Improving the risk adjusted profile

23:15 - An evolving system

28:19 - Slow or fast?

30:44 - Being aware of volatility

32:44 - Trend following vs. momentum

37:19 - "The technical logic of the system"

40:05 - An adaptive process

43:58...

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0:00.0	You know, the real key is to be able to put a position on and resist the urge to liquidate it,
0:14.9	to take profits real quickly.
0:16.7	You want to trade actively, cut your losses quickly, and let your winners, you know, evolve
0:23.1	and run over time. And your winners, you know, will turn out with good systems to be two,
0:29.2	two and a half times bigger than you're losing trades.
0:34.4	Imagine spending an hour with the world's greatest traders. Imagine learning from their
0:39.4	experiences, their successes, and their failures. Imagine no more. Welcome to Top Traders Unplugged,
0:47.0	the place where you can learn from the best hedge fund managers in the world so you can take your
0:51.6	manager due diligence or investment career to the next level.
0:55.4	Before we begin today's conversation, remember to keep two things in mind. All the discussion
1:00.1	we'll have about investment performance is about the past, and past performance does not
1:04.6	guarantee or even infer anything about future performance. Also understand that there's a significant
1:09.8	risk of financial loss with
1:11.2	all investment strategies, and you need to request and understand the specific risks from the
1:16.2	investment manager about their product before you make investment decisions. Here's your host,
1:21.3	veteran hedge fund manager, Nealz Kostrup Larson.
1:30.1	Hey everyone and welcome to another edition of Top Traders on Plot, where today
1:33.6	Alan Dunn and I are joined by Brian Proctor, who is a managing director at EMC Capital
1:38.2	Advisors as part of our miniseries focusing on the one investment strategy that beat everything
1:43.0	else in 2022, namely trend following
1:45.0	and managed futures more broadly.
1:47.1	First of, Brian, it's great to have you back on the podcast.
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