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Mark Rzepczynski joins us today to discuss Trend Following versus Momentum strategies, the need to be humble about making economic forecasts, how Central Bank policies affect Trend Following performance, Cathie Wood and ARKK coming under pressure from the media, Trend Following on options, calculating a systems’ risk-to-stop, vetting new investors for their ability to handle risk, hard data versus stories, when to apply the ‘Moscow rules’.
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Episode TimeStamps:
00:00 – Intro
02:02 – Macro recap from Niels
04:39 – Weekly review of performance
23:00 – Q1 Zack: How should I calculate the risk-to-stop metric?
28:42 – Q2 Peregrine: Vetting new investors for their ability to handle risk
42:09 – Q3 Graham: Can you detail some of the definitions of a breakout?
47:24 – Trend Following versus Momentum
01:00:58 – Molecules of prices
01:08:31 – Data versus stories and when to apply the ‘Moscow Rules’
01:15:00 – Benchmark performance update
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