TTU66: Trade Innovation for the future ft. Luc van Hof of Capital Hedge

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this year-end review, Luc van Hof discusses what he learned from 2014 and how his firm innovated to create better gains for customers in 2015. He also talks about the Swiss Franc and why he was not trading it when the major move happened in 2015.

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The two programs that his firm trades.
What kind of risk both of his programs take on.
What 2014 taught Luc.
What he learned from the Swiss Franc move.
Why they didn’t trade the Swiss Franc…on the day of the big move.
Why he wishes they could have taken a holiday for 6 months after the end of June.
The advantage of trading frequently.
The new innovation that his firm started this year.
His thoughts on volatility.

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0:00.0	Well, not to make a joke of it, but we should have taken a six-month holiday at the end of June.
0:07.0	That would have been the best decision.
0:09.0	But of course, that's the difference between, say, trading your own money, in which case you could do that, and trading, say, other people's money.
0:16.0	You can't say to your clients, well, we made 5% in six months or 8% in six months, let's
0:22.7	stop this for the rest of the year.
0:24.1	You have said, well, why would we continue to pay management fees?
0:27.7	So you have basically no choice but to be active in the market.
0:31.1	It doesn't mean you have to trade, but it's very difficult for the short-term trader to
0:35.6	be out of the market for weeks, if not months.
0:40.3	This is Luke Vanhoff, founder and CEO of Capital Edge, and you are listening to my year-in review on top traders on planet.
0:51.3	Imagine spending an hour with the world's greatest traders.
0:55.0	Imagine learning from their experiences, their successes, and their failures.
1:00.0	Imagine no more.
1:02.0	Welcome to Top Traders Unplugged, the place where you can learn from the best hedge fund managers in the world,
1:07.0	so you can take your manager due diligence or investment career to the next level.
1:12.7	Here's your host, veteran hedge fund manager, Niels Kastrop Larson.
1:24.1	Welcome back, Luke, for this review of 2014, where we look at the big events from the point
1:29.3	of view of your trading strategies.
1:31.3	I want to explore the ups and the downs as well as the big takeaway from what can only be described
1:37.3	as an important year for systematic trading strategies in general.
1:41.3	But as we know, just because you're systematic in your trading,
1:45.4	it doesn't necessarily mean that you capture the movements of the markets in a similar way.
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