68 The Systematic Investor Series – December 29th, 2019 Copy




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Summary: In this week’s episode, we discuss the notion of correlation between volatility and risk, why it can be a bad idea to equate a manager’s performance with their skill-level, when a losing trade should still be considered a good trade, how much opportunity is in Low-Volatility Targeting strategies, and we also give our end-of-year reviews.  Questions answered this week include: Is Trend Following another form of price prediction?  Do you follow the weekly Commitments of Traders report? Can you can you make money in the markets without the need for predictions?<br> If any listeners would like to leave us a voicemail message to play on the show, you can do so here.<br> Learn more about the free-to-use Top Traders Unplugged Trend Barometer here.<br> You can download your free guide to Systematic Investing, and subscribe to our mailing list by visiting TopTradersUnplugged.com<br> Get a free copy of my latest book "The Many Flavors of Trend Following" here.<br> Send your questions to info@toptradersunplugged.com<br> Follow Niels, Jerry &amp; Moritz on Twitter:<br> @TopTradersLive, @RJparkerjr09 and @MoritzSeibert<br> And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest rating &amp; review on iTunes so more people can discover the podcast.<br> <br> Episode Summary<br> 0:00 - Intro<br> 0:55 - Macro recap from Niels<br> 3:10 - Weekly review of returns<br> 18:41  - Top tweets<br> 43:29 - Question 1: Woody; Is Trend Following another form of predicting price moves?<br> 1:00:18 - Question 2 William; Do you follow the weekly COT (Commitments of Traders) report?<br> 1:05:02 - Performance recap<br> 1:08:52 - End of year recap<br> 1:19:32 - Top tweets (cont.)<br> 1:20:59 - Thank you to our listeners in 2019<br> Subscribe on: