135 Systematic Investor Series ft Moritz Seibert – April 11th, 2021

Moritz Seibert joins us today to discuss the little-known hedge fund Archegos, who recently blew up and cost billions of dollars for large institutions such as Credit Suisse and Nomura. We also discuss whether cracks are beginning to show in the stock market, the bull market in commodities, opportunities for investing in Chinese commodity markets, the risks of trading in emerging markets, how to trade cryptocurrency futures, and combining Trend Following strategies with none-correlated strategies in the same system. If you would like to leave us a voicemail to play on the show, you can do so here. Check out our Global Macro series here. Learn more about the Trend Barometer here. 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. And you can get a free copy of my latest book "The Many Flavors of Trend Following" here. Send your questions to [email protected] Follow Niels & Moritz on Twitter: @TopTradersLive  & @MoritzSeibert And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest rating & review on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast. Top Traders Unplugged wins award for ‘Best Trading Podcast’ and features among the ‘Top 20 Best Investing Podcasts in 2020’ by The Investors Podcast 🏆 Episode Summary 0:00 - Intro 2:19 - Macro recap from Niels 5:22 - Weekly review of returns 12:48 - Quant trading firms being ready to pounce on a possible upcoming commodity boom, especially in China 31:05 - The departure of some CTAs away from major exchanges, and the fund Archegos blowing up costing billions for major global banks 49:25 - Arbitraging bitcoin futures 1:00:45 - Q1; Jim: What are your thoughts on combining a Trend Following system with a mean-reversion system? 1:04:40 - Q2; John: Do you have any advice on which futures contract to trade and when to roll? 1:09:14 - Q3; Mark: If Trend Following philosophy assumes the future is unknown, why is normal to use historical price data? 1:14:45 - Performance recap Subscribe on: