Top Traders Unplugged
Summary: Top Traders Unplugged is created for you, the investor, trader or research analyst. If you are looking to become a better informed investor, Niels Kaastrup-Larsen delivers the information you just don’t want to miss. Just like the Market Wizard books brought some of the greatest traders to light in the 80’s, Top Traders Unplugged brings to you engaging conversations with today’s top Quant legends like Winton Capital’s David Harding, Turtle Mentor Richard Dennis as well as Global Macro experts like Danielle DiMartino Booth, Preston Pysh, Julian Brigden, Mike Green, Erik Townsend, Larry McDonald and many more. Learn from their experiences, their successes, and their failures.
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Why CTA & S&P500 returns are often wrongly compared. IT'S TRUE - most CIO's read 50+ books each year! Get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. Follow me at @TopTradersLive And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest rating & review on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast. Subscribe on:
The ‘mother of all biases’. IT'S TRUE - most CIO's read 50+ books each year! Get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. Follow me at @TopTradersLive And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest rating & review on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast. Subscribe on:
Why Volatility differs from Risk, and how it may even be considered your friend. IT'S TRUE - most CIO's read 50+ books each year! Get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. Follow me at @TopTradersLive And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest rating & review on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast. Subscribe on:
We’re joined today by special guest Nick Leeson, who is famous for the collapse of Barings Bank, one the oldest banks in the world at the time, to discuss liquidity risk in the markets, dealing with stress in extraordinary situations, the benefits of asking yourself the difficult questions, problems when interpreting vast amounts of data, what Nick looks for when investing today, the importance of communicating your feelings, and lots more. If you would like to leave us a voicemail to play on the show, you can do so here. Learn more about the Trend Barometer here. IT's TRUE - most CIO's read 50+ books each year - get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. And you can get a free copy of my latest book "The Many Flavors of Trend Following" here. Send your questions to info@toptradersunplugged.com Follow Niels, Jerry, Moritz & Nick on Twitter: @TopTradersLive, @RJparkerjr09, @MoritzSeibert and @TheNickLeeson And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest rating & review on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast. Episode Summary 0:00 - Intro1:43 - Macro recap from Niels3:16 - Weekly review of returns5:18 - Niels: What key decisions have shaped your life so far?7:59 - Niels: Can you describe the period between 1992 & 1995?12:44 - Niels: What do you remember about the supposed ‘complex’ products that your were trading?16:19 - Moritz: What was it like trading in Indonesia?20:06 - Moritz: How did you end up being sent abroad to run a business for a bank?26:34 - Moritz: What type of products did you trade at the SIMEX?29:32 - Niels: What are things you look for in a person or organisation you would want to invest with?34:57 - Niels: You advise large businesses, so what are the discussions you are currently having with your clients?49:39 - Moritz:What was your thinking & process while attempting to recover huge losses?55:41 - Niels: Do you talk with your clients about a market's liquidity risk?58:53 - Niels: How has electronic trading made markets more liquid or less liquid?1:02:16 - Niels: Do you see similarities between today’s scandals, and the behavious of past financial scandals?1:05:49 - Moritz: How do you trade today, and what do you think is important is for good trading?1:11:23 - Niels: Describe how you’ve dealt with stress throughout extraordinary situations?1:17:01 - Niels: What are the key things you try to teach your kids, based on your experiences?1:18:57 - Performance recap1:19:57 - Moritz: Tell us about Bull And Bear Cap?1:21:51 - Moritz: Are you continually asked about your history with Barings Bank? Subscribe on:
Why having patience and keeping yourself in the right environment is vital to good investing. IT'S TRUE - most CIO's read 50+ books each year! Get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. Follow me at @TopTradersLive And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest rating & review on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast. Subscribe on:
Having conviction is about having a justified belief in your strategy. IT'S TRUE - most CIO's read 50+ books each year! Get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. Follow me at @TopTradersLive And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest rating & review on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast. Subscribe on:
Being a good rules-based Investor can be a lonely road, and takes courage to follow. IT'S TRUE - most CIO's read 50+ books each year! Get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. Follow me at @TopTradersLive And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest rating & review on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast. Subscribe on:
How to get Clarity and remove the noise of the markets. IT'S TRUE - most CIO's read 50+ books each year! Get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. Follow me at @TopTradersLive And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest rating & review on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast. Subscribe on:
How a few simple rules were 97% more accurate than predictions from a variety of experts, in fields like stock picking. IT'S TRUE - most CIO's read 50+ books each year! Get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. Follow me at @TopTradersLive And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest rating & review on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast. Subscribe on:
Today, we discuss comments from Warren Buffett in the recent Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting, AQR Capital’s recent research finding pure Trend Following strategies to be a better hedge in bear markets than Options strategies, the oil market & the USO ETF, how commodities are great diversifiers which often outperform equities, how to think about market inefficiencies, and why it’s never too late to invest into Trend Following. If you would like to leave us a voicemail to play on the show, you can do so here. Learn more about the Trend Barometer here. IT's TRUE - most CIO's read 50+ books each year - get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. And you can get a free copy of my latest book "The Many Flavors of Trend Following" here. Send your questions to info@toptradersunplugged.com Follow Niels, Jerry, & Moritz on Twitter: @TopTradersLive, @RJparkerjr09, and @MoritzSeibert And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest rating & review on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast. Episode Summary 0:00 - Intro 1:53 - Macro recap from Niels 7:24 - Weekly review of returns 40:38 - Alastair: Questions 1/2/3: How do you pick which month futures contract to trade? Is there any possible alpha in how you roll a futures contract? What is your overall reason for doing what you do in the markets? 52:22 - Top Tweet 53:49 - Performance recap 56:35 - Announcement of next week’s special guest, Nick Leeson Subscribe on:
Why a winning or losing bet may not mean that it was a good or bad decision. IT'S TRUE - most CIO's read 50+ books each year! Get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. Follow me at @TopTradersLive And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest rating & review on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast. Subscribe on:
How a tried & tested strategy can offset the emotional risk when Investing. IT'S TRUE - most CIO's read 50+ books each year! Get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. Follow me at @TopTradersLive And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest rating & review on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast. Subscribe on:
Daniel Crosby explains how our bodies shut our brains down & how this causes bad Investing behaviour. IT'S TRUE - most CIO's read 50+ books each year! Get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. Follow me at @TopTradersLive And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest rating & review on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast. Subscribe on:
Why we desire a good story & the effect this has on our investments. IT'S TRUE - most CIO's read 50+ books each year! Get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. Follow me at @TopTradersLive And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest rating & review on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast. Subscribe on:
Daniel Crosby on Ego, Overconfidence, Emotion & Attention biases. IT'S TRUE - most CIO's read 50+ books each year! Get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. Follow me at @TopTradersLive And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest rating & review on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast. Subscribe on:
