Episode description
Jerry Parker joins us today to discuss the importance of hanging on to your outlier winners, value investing versus trend following, the optimum number of entry & signals per trade, the need to redefine ‘safe assets’, Jerry & Richard Brennans’ thoughts on Howard Marks’ remarks about Trend Following, risk parity within a Trend Following portfolio, the unpredictability of endogenous outliers, and deconstructing the old narrative that ‘Trend Following is dead’.
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In this episode, we discuss:
- Letting winners run and cutting losses early
- Using 1 entry signal and 1 exit signal per trade versus multiple signals
- Redefining what are typically known as ‘safe assets’
- Howard Marks’ opinion on following price
- Achieving effective risk parity within a portfolio
- How endogenous outliers are hard to predict
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Episode TimeStamps:
00:00 – Intro
01:44 – Macro recap from Niels
05:24 – Weekly review of performance
11:51 – Jerry & Rich’s thoughts on Howard Mark’s opinion of Trend Following
24:46 – Why exit rules might be harder to create than entry rules
43:45 – Risk parity within a Trend Following portfolio
51:03 – The unpredictability of endogenous outliers
01:10:08 – The old narrative that ‘Trend Following is dead’
01:13:54 – Benchmark performance...