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SI161: Retaking the Turtle Trader Entrance Exam ft. Jerry Parker

Oct 09, 20211 hr 2 minTranscript available on Metacast
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Episode description

Jerry Parker joins us for a very special episode today, where we invite him to answer the original interview questions from Richard Dennis’s famous Turtle Trader program. This is a fascinating insight into the world of Trend Following, and one which allows us to see whether Jerry has changed his opinions since working Richard Dennis, as well as explain some of his reasons for the answers chosen today. We’ve posted the questions in the timestamps below, so feel free to take the test and compare your answers to Jerry’s.

Also check out my interview with Turtle Trading legendary mentor Richard Dennis here.

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In this episode, we discuss:

  • Favouring long or short positions
  • How you can go broke taking small profits
  • Reasons to ‘fade the fundamentals’
  • The importance of down-time and vacations
  • Whether we can rely on opinions of the crowd
  • System diversification
  • Why you should trade small
  • The questions that Jerry would add to the Turtle Trader test today
  • Avoiding trades due to gaps in price

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00:00 - Intro

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