Top Traders Unplugged

Discussion on whether or not to trade Synthetic Instruments. 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:

Discussion a recent Barron’s article which says that the 200-Day Moving Average no longer works - perhaps Barron's have changed their mind after March 2020? 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 discuss The Curious Investor podcast episode on Systematic vs Discretionary 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:

“Experts” claim that the character of the markets has changed in recent years. We discuss comments from David Harding, Stanley Druckenmiller & Cliff Asness, relating to Trend Following. 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 a listener question, regarding the usual time it takes before being able to follow a Trading System religiously. 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 on the show today by special guest Robert Carver, to discuss another historically volatile week in the markets, the differences between today’s bear market and 2008, how Robert defines portfolio diversification, how many markets a profitable Trend Following system should trade, the different types of strategies that Robert currently uses, the amount of truly uncorrelated assets available, and volatility scaling as a part of risk management.  Questions answered this week include: What causes you to modify your system over time, and how do you go about this?  What have you learnt from trading through previous crisis periods?  What are your thoughts on AI technology? 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 & Rob on Twitter: @TopTradersLive, @RJparkerjr09, @MoritzSeibert, and @InvestingIdiocy 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 1:09 - Macro recap from Niels 4:03 - Weekly review of returns 8:09 - Niels: How have you dealt with the recent volatility? 19:44 - Niels: What does diversification mean to you? 28:35 - Niels: How many markets can be considered too many for a diversified Trend Following system to trade? 41:10 - Moritz: What type of different strategies do you currently trade? 46:27 - Niels: What has helped you to do well during recently, especially during the recent market turmoil? 51:17 - Niels: Why have you chosen to trade different markets differently, rather than treating all markets the same? 1:03:18 - Seth; Question 1: How do you incorporate correlations into building a Trend Following program? 1:09:40 - Moritz; Question 2: What causes you modify your system over time, and how do you go about this? 1:14:37 - Niels: What, in your opinion, is a good risk management framework?  What have you learnt from trading previous crisis periods? 1:22:09 - Niels: What are your thoughts on AI technology? 1:27:20 - Moritz: What are your thoughts on the possibility of Trend Following becoming too crowded? 1:36:12 - Performance recap   Subscribe on:

Today we discuss a question from the audience about what goes on in the life of a CTA. 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 likeliness to curve fit data from backtests, and get excited about numbers which may not materialise. 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:

When Howard Marks speaks, we should all pay attention. And today's topic about focusing on the Risk rather than the Upside in your portfolio...is just up our street! 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 discuss why we believe that Trend Following could rightly be viewed as the Perfect Portfolio, and sometimes the Perfect Hedge. 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 do equity investors aim to be average? And how to aim for more. 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:

This week, we discuss the potential benefits of investing in more than one systematic fund, Tom Basso’s research finding that Trend Following returns increase as market volatility increases, the process behind Moritz’s discretionary trade last week, sizing positions according to volatility, the historic rally in government bonds, and the importance of good risk management. Questions we answer include: What software do you use to manage and monitor your portfolios?  How much importance do you place on pyramiding into & out of positions?  Have you found that some markets trend better than others? 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 1:26 - Macro recap from Niels 3:00 - Weekly review of returns 29:11 - Top Tweets 50:16 - Dante; Question 1: What software do you use to monitor your portfolios? 52:15 - Andrew; Question 2: How much importance do you place on the effect of pyramiding into & out of positions? 59:28 - Mike; Question 3: Do you size positions based on volatility, and how does this affect correlations? 1:04:12 - James; Question 4: Do you believe particular markets ‘trend’ better than others? 1:11:44 - Performance recap   Subscribe on:

What is the optimal time frame when analysing a track record & why can seemingly correlated strategies have very different returns? 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:

Want to know what the real benefit of Trend Following is, compared to the traditional Buy & Hold method? Find out in today's episode...there may be more benefits than meets the eye at first glance. 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:

You may be surprised of the difference between how well Short and Long trades perform...but why it's still important to trade both. 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: