Posts by Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

107 The Systematic Investor Series – September 28th, 2020

By Niels Kaastrup-Larsen | 09/28/2020 |

In this episode, we discuss the best & worst markets for Trend Following strategies in recent years, the benefits of trading & investing across multiple timeframes, how a combined portfolio of Trend Following & the S&P500 has been historically lucrative, the perils of a market that is stuck in a large trading range, and how…

Campbell Harvey – Global Macro Series – 19th August 2020

By Niels Kaastrup-Larsen | 08/19/2020 |

In today’s episode we are joined by Campbell Harvey, Professor of Finance at Duke University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cam served as Editor of The Journal of Finance from 2006 to 2012 and as the 2016 President of the American Finance Association. He holds a Ph.D.…

What Defines A Trend Following Trader?

By Niels Kaastrup-Larsen | 06/23/2020 |

What defines a Trend Following trader? IT’S TRUE – most CIO’s read 50+ books each year! Get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. Follow me at @TopTradersLive And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest rating & review on iTunes so more people…

Market Trends for May 2020

By Niels Kaastrup-Larsen | 06/01/2020 |

We are currently in a Fourth turning and fourth turnings is when we suddenly realize that that kind of world is not meant for survival and that we suddenly need order. We want direction, we need authority and we are usually shocked into that realization by a catalyst that suddenly plunges the world into a very negative mood. Suddenly big institutions particularly individualistic market institutions no longer seem to work anymore.

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Market Trends for April 2020

By Niels Kaastrup-Larsen | 05/03/2020 |

After a nail biting month of March, April was full of surprises…and of course a “never before in history” event, when we saw Oil prices go Negative. And that is actually the point I want to emphasize this month. How many times in the past 6 weeks have we heard the words “first time in history that this has happened”? Quite a few.

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Overrated Knowledge & The Neglect of Behavioural Finance

By Niels Kaastrup-Larsen | 04/21/2020 |

Daniel Crosby describes how knowledge can sometimes do very little to change Human behaviour, and so may not be as important as people think. IT’S TRUE – most CIO’s read 50+ books each year! Get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. Follow me at @TopTradersLive And please…

82 The Systematic Investor Series ft Harold de Boer – April 5th, 2020

By Niels Kaastrup-Larsen | 04/05/2020 |

Special guest, Harold de Boer of Transtrend, joins us on the show today to discuss why the recent returns disparity among CTAs might be good for the industry, the benefits of investing in more than one Trend Following fund, if the term ‘machine learning’ should be considered as a marketing ploy, what makes a strategy…

Market Trends for March 2020

By Niels Kaastrup-Larsen | 04/01/2020 |

In my February update, I wrote about the three things that is usually present for a Crisis to happen (Excessive Valuations, a Trigger & Change in Investor Sentiment/Human Behaviour), but little did I know that this would be evident just 31 days later.
Last night the S&P 500 wrapped up a 12.5% drop for the month of March and 20% first-quarter tumble for the broad index…

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Should You Adjust Your Position Size During A Trade?

By Niels Kaastrup-Larsen | 03/27/2020 |

Is increasing or reducing an existing position during a trade, something you should do? IT’S TRUE 👀 – most CIO’s read 50+ books each year! Get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. Follow me at @TopTradersLive And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave…

Historical Data, Backtests, & Track Records

By Niels Kaastrup-Larsen | 03/06/2020 |

What is the optimal time frame when analysing a track record & why can seemingly correlated strategies have very different returns? IT’S TRUE 👀 – most CIO’s read 50+ books each year! Get your copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. Follow me at @TopTradersLive And please share this…

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Trend following gem

04/12/2021
TTU covers a ton of ground each week and I find all topics to be very timely. I never miss an episode and no matter who the guests are, I find the conversations get pretty deep and thorough. There is so much material in their library that I find myself making time to go back as I always learn something new in each one.

by ethan benarj from United States

Staying focused for the long-term

04/08/2021
I've been trading on and off for 15 years and I've never found a trading related podcast that I like as much, or listen to every week, the way I do Top Traders Unplugged. While they focus on systematic trading systems with stable philosophies and rules, there are always new topics in those systems worth talking about: conceptualizing risk, the novelty of new asset classes or world events in relation to the behaviour of the systems, and all the little details that can make systems based on the same concepts and fundimentals behave differently. I'm (finally!) beginning to trade in the vien of the hosts systems and hearing their experiences with the same questions on what to do, or how performance and mood has been lately is both stabilizing and motivating. Even for those not planning to use these systematic methods there are tons of great convsations about risk, diversity, position sizing, and so on that are applicable to other styles of trading. Give this a listen.

by As2onish from Canada

Excellent

03/25/2021
Thought provoking, open minded discussion with knowledgeable host and guests. Thank you!

by DonalWalsh from Ireland

Review name here

03/22/2021
Really good trading podcast where the hosts are very open about their performance the good and the bad and explain why

by Saved from crying from United States

Thank you for achieving my dream

03/16/2021
Hi,everyone,My name is Oleg Mikhailov.I want to tell in a few words why this show so important for me.I began to trade in January 2007,but had interruptions in my early career because of blowed accounts so now have near 10 years of experience summary.Was doing a lot of my own research but had a lot of questions and did not know where to find answers on them.I didn’t even know is it real to find all this solutions or not.in fact ,getting this knowledge was one of my main dreams.I did not trust most information that I saw on this subject.it is a lot of very different information and I didn’t know whom I can believe.in 2019 I decided to look what instruments use famous Dunn Capital and have found TTU on their site.only one word I want to say about this :a miracle.read transcripts for few months and in December have discovered si series.I have found all answers that I wanted to find near 12 years and even much more than that.I have constructed my strategy in a very good way and had profit in March 2020 because of knowledge I get.I am sure that if you want to be a master in something:sports,martial arts or any science,first of all you must have good base of knowledge and skills that are proved by centuries.For me SI series is a such base.On all other information from trading field I am going to look from si lens.Thank you Niels,Thank you Jerry and thank you Moritz .You have helped me to achieve one of my main dreams!

by trader Mikhailov from United States

Enjoyable and always something new to learn

03/15/2021
Great podcast and indeed an honest journey through the world of trend following. At podcast #15 and I still find a few more things I can learn from Niels and team.

by IgnorantInvestor from United Kingdom