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Can recent inflation data signal a more stable economic environment ahead? Discover how core PCE numbers might be the key to understanding our bullish market outlook. In this episode, we explore groundbreaking investments in OpenAI by industry giants Apple and Nvidia and delve into their strategic benefits for Microsoft. We'll also shed light on why asset managers' current low tech exposure could signal a potential market upswing and how Commodity Trading Advisors are playing a crucial role in maintaining stability. Plus, we'll share the secrets behind our trading portfolio's impressive 80% gain.As we navigate through September's market trends, learn how seasonal buybacks could influence market behavior until mid-month and why the second half of September might be weaker. We will discuss a potential VIX trade as a strategic hedge against market downturns. Additionally, get insights from Wells Fargo's Mike Mayo on why bank stocks could rally with anticipated Fed rate easing, despite Warren Buffett's recent divestment from Bank of America. Finally, we'll provide selective bullish trading recommendations for Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan, equipping you with strategies to make informed decisions in today's market landscape.Support the Show.
In this episode of Engaging Alternatives Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Director, Publications, EisnerAmper, speaks with David Martin, Founder & CIO of Martin Fund Management, a commodity trading advisor (CTA) based in Palm Beach. David shares his outlook for investing in CTAs including the greatest opportunities, challenges and more.
Andrew Beer, managing member of DBI, joins Forward Guidance to discuss the need for drastic fee reduction in hedge-fund like return vehicles. Beer and Farley explore in depth the mysteries of trend following (also known as CTAs or managed futures) strategies, which provide investors with positive carrying uncorrelated return streams that can be very beneficial in years such as 2022, when stocks and bonds both suffered a severe drawdown. Filmed on September 6, 2023. Timecodes: (00:00) Introduction (00:04) Alpha & Beta (02:25) What Hedge Funds Do Well (11:17) Paying High Hedge Fund Feeds Is Like "Shooting Yourself In The Foot" (14:31) The Strategy of Managed Futures (or Commodity Trading Advisors) (29:40) The Rise of the "Pod Model" In Multi-Manager Hedge Funds (39:00) Picking Hedge Fund Managers Is A Largely Hopeless Task (44:29) Many Hedge Funds Have Missed The 2023 Tech Rally (50:24) Optimal Rebalancing Between Strategies (57:53) History Of Bad Ideas In Creation of New Investment Products: "Alternative Risk Premia" (59:42) A Lof Of Academic Finance Is Insane (01:01:20) The "Value Factor" As We Once Knew It No Longer Exists (01:16:36) Ark & Cathie Wood (01:25:51) China Was "Adored" By Hedge Fund Community
The scenario of an extreme market impact from zero days to expiration options may be overstated and Commodity Trading Advisors' positive beta to equity may be a near-term headwind for SPX. In this edition of the All Options Considered podcast on volatility, BI's Chief Global Derivatives Strategist Tanvir Sandhu is joined by Dean Curnutt, the CEO of Macro Risk Advisors. Points covered include key themes from the volatility markets year-to-date, 0DTE options, CTAs and VIX optionality.
Listen to Bob, CEO of Equinox Funds, a family of Mutual Funds using Commodity Trading Advisors and their strategies, expanding into equity strategies. Their initial fund, the Frontier Fund, was the original Managed Futures category offered thru the format of a liquid, low minimum Mutual Fund, and later launching the first portfolio of multi-strategy CTA's in a Mutual Fund. We discuss the opportunity to diversify into Commodities, and their approach to invest into them without having to liquidate fixed income and equities. We also discuss their unique fee arrangement for their Ampersand Fund. Anyone looking for diversification and possible enhanced returns thru Commodities should find this interview to be very interesting.
My guest today is Ted Parkhill. Ted has over 25 years of management experience in the investment business. He is a founding partner of systematic macro investment manager Incline Investment Management (IIM). He is also serves as an Assistant Professor of business at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village, NV. Prior to IIM he was the director of marketing for Zazove Associates a multi-billion dollar quantitative convertible securities manager. He was a senior marketing executive at John W. Henry & Company one of the original Commodity Trading Advisors. The topic is Trend Following. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: It is possible to consistently generate profitable returns through systematic trading Markets are inefficient and therefore trends materialize Trends last longer than people think Prices reflect the sum of the knowledge of all market participants Jump in! --- I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/ You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/ Can't get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast My social media platforms: Twitter: @covel Facebook: @trendfollowing LinkedIn: @covel Instagram: @mikecovel Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!
Michael talks with Ted Parkhill. Ted has over 25 years of management experience in the investment business. He is a founding partner of systematic macro investment manager Incline Investment Management (IIM). He is also serves as an Assistant Professor of business at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village, NV. Prior to IIM he was the director of marketing for Zazove Associates a multi-billion dollar quantitative convertible securities manager. He was a senior marketing executive at John W. Henry & Company one of the original Commodity Trading Advisors. In this episode of Trend Following Radio: It is possible to consistently generate profitable returns through systematic trading Markets are inefficient and therefore trends materialize Trends last longer than people think Prices reflect the sum of the knowledge of all market participants
We look beyond the core momentum (trend) signal to provide insight into the technical and fundamental predictors commonly used by Commodity Trading Advisors and multi-strategy managers.
Niels Kaastrup-Larsen is Managing Director of Dunn Capital (Europe). He is a trend follower with more than 20 years experience in the hedge fund industry, working for some of the largest CTAs or Commodity Trading Advisors in the world, including Chesapeake Capital. Niels co-founded, built and managed three businesses within the alternative investment space, including Rho Asset Management. Niels trades futures markets in a systematic and highly-automated way. He is the founder and host of the popular podcast 'Top Traders Unplugged', where he uses his experience and contacts in the industry to deliver insightful, engaging and passionate interviews with the most successful hedge fund managers and traders. Economic and Finance Themes: In this interview, Niels mentions and discusses: Trend following, futures markets, gold, anomalies, confirmation bias, efficient market hypothesis, fixed-income securities, treasuries, bonds, the Great Depression, stock market portfolio, diversification, equities, systematic trading, stop-losses, technical analysis. Find out: about trend following and how to spot a trend. what is a trend following strategy. two ways in which we can take on market risk - one good and the other not so good. how emotions can lead to losses. why trend followers use computers with built-in trend following rules to make trades. why we are more likely to buy a bar of soap that is reduced by 50% in a retail store than buy a stock that has fallen 50%. how you should diversify a portfolio. why Niels believes that global markets will be in turmoil within the next 5 years. why Niels believes the economic cycle will turn by October 2015. why events will unfold just like 1929. if the Swiss and Germans should take back their gold reserves from the United States. about whether there are job opportunities in the trading industry today. and much more. You can find all the links and book recommendations by Niels at www.economicrockstar/niels Support the show by subscribing to the podcast or by becoming a patron of Economic Rockstar at www.patreon.com/economicrockstar.