May 28, 2019
I get a lot of questions about ideas to help build the best Trading Model, and I understand why many aspiring managers feel that this is critical to their future success. There is though, a lot of truth in the saying: “Most people overvalue ideas and underestimate execution". What I mean by that is, when you want to...
May 25, 2019
Is ‘Buy & Holding’ the S&P500 index the perfect investment strategy? Should you apply Equal-Weighting across all of your Trading positions? Are Long-term strategies the only way to avoid market noise? Also, we give our thoughts on why you should avoid ‘Fat-Tail Distributions, Volatility versus Risk, how Trend...
May 21, 2019
Regardless of the investment strategy you apply to the markets, your strategy or approach needs to evolve over time. The way we did Trend Following back in the 1970s, 1980s, & 1990s is not exactly the way we do it today, and I think this can be said about most, if not all strategies. Now with some strategies, the...
May 19, 2019
In today’s episode, we discuss whether or not Trend Following is more effective with Volatility Targeting, how cautious you should be of outlier events, how to use stress-levels as an indicator of how good your Trading strategy is, and we give our thoughts on the concept of ‘risk of ruin’, in relation to the...
May 12, 2019
Today, we discuss how to go from managing personal money to third-party money, in this current regulatory environment. We clear up some confusion surrounding the VIX market, touch on stocks vs commodities & how they affect on Trend Following strategies differently, as well as how to avoid a single driver from overly...