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Episode TimeStamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:20 - Would you rather trade 100 markets with 1 system, using 10 different timeframes, or would you rather trade 50 markets, using 3 different systems, using 5 different timeframes?
08:33 - How much ‘positive skew’ do we need?
27:04 - Diversification as a means of risk control, versus as a method of finding outliers
36:14 - Defining outliers and some thoughts on the number of expected outliers per year
45:03 - Can be momentum traders be placed in the same category as Trend Followers?
48:13 - Should we care that bubbles exist, or just enjoy the profitable trends? Have the markets gotten any smarter over the years?
52:52 - How Trend Following and Systematic Investing narratives & terms have changed over the years
01:12:55 - A review of our best and worst markets to trade during 2021
01:16:10 - The lessons we learned from 2021, the biggest surprises, and our most regrettable decision from the year
