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Top Traders Unplugged with Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Jan 31, 2021

Mark Rzepczynski joins us today to discuss the Gamestop short-squeeze, democratisation of the investment industry, increasing expectation among investors that the Federal Reserve will always prevent prolonged market crashes, the 3 main ingredients for a market bubble, whether we are seeing a bubble in the stock market...


Jan 24, 2021

Turtle Trading legend Jerry Parker joins us today to discuss why smart people often struggle with systematic investing, the benefits of non-predictive investment strategies, what changes Jerry would make to Richard Dennis and William Eckhart’s original Turtle Trading rules, why predefined trade exits are good for...


Jan 18, 2021

In today’s show, we discuss the benefits of not taking profits too early during huge price moves, how a Trend Follower trader might be approaching Bitcoin, if March 2020 may have impacted a Trend Follower’s approach to the markets, why the S&P 500 could be considered just as much of an ‘alternative’ market as...


Jan 10, 2021

We’re joined today by Robert Carver to discuss how quant managers compared to discretionary managers in 2020, Winton Capital’s underperformance and resulting loss of AUM, the pressure for successful Trend Following firms to expand into different investment styles, why March & December 2020 were generally the best...


Jan 6, 2021

In this episode, we conclude our special 2-part series on how to design a Trend Following system, with a deeper dive into some performance statistics over the last couple of decades, including correlations, drawdowns and how different market environments have impacted our system.  We also touch on how to add some...