Ep. 156: Patrick Boyle Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

My guest today is Patrick Boyle, a fund manager, academic, and author. Boyle is the Founder of Palomar Capital Management, a UK-based hedge fund.

The topic is fund management.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Directional trading
• Timeframes in trading and short-term trading
• Boyle's background and how he came to be a founding partner of Palomar
• Boyle's time working with Victor Niederhoffer
• Niederhoffer and his teaching lineage
• David Harding and Bill Dunn
• Boyle's political stances, the Fed, and the SEC
• Risk and running a directional fund
• Performance correlation to the S&P and the trend following CTA's
• The big picture takeaways that Boyle learned under Niederhoffer
• Correlations to people who have come out of Niederhoffer's shop
• Monroe Trout
• Testing ideas
• How quantitative analysis is different from technical analysis
• The book publishing industry, and why all the secrets might not be in a $20 book
• Where Palomar Fund Management is at today
• Foundational advice to the budding fund manager
• Libertarianism

Jump in!

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