SI146: The Trend Following Mindset ft. Rob Carver | Top Traders Unplugged podcast

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Episode description

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Episode description

We’re joined today by Rob Carver to discuss why investors worried about inflation need to be invested in Trend Following strategies, the Russell 2000 being mainly comprised of companies that are losing money, long and short positions when Trend Following on ETFs, the difficulties in combining simple methods into a balanced and profitable system, open trade equity risk and if it can predict future returns, the perils of over-optimisation, embracing the mindset of Trend Following, and the results of an experiment where retail investors traded the same stocks as a professional fund, leading to different outcomes.

You can read some of Rob’s work here.

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In this episode, we discuss:

Trend Following as a solution to rising inflation

The major stock indices being of composed of mainly companies are losing money

Trend Following on ETFs

Predicting future returns using current risk exposure

Retail traders versus professional money managers

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