Top Traders Unplugged
1,184 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 509 ratingsExplore the captivating world of investing with Niels Kaastrup-Larsen and his incredible co-hosts. Each week, we delve into engaging conversations with renowned investors, top economists, expert traders, and visionary thought leaders. Our discussions cover Trend Following, Global Macro, Geo-Politics, Commodities, Quant Investing, Crypto, Volatility, and much more. Unlock valuable insights from seasoned professionals, celebrating their triumphs and learning from their obstacles. Tune in every week to stay informed and inspired in the dynamic world of trend following, global macro and investing. For the latest episodes and blog posts, visit https://toptradersunplugged.com
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17 Start Your Own Firm at 21 Years of Age? Russian CEO Tells All. with Peter Kambolin of Systematic Alpha Management – 1of2
July 28, 2014 03:30 - 1 hour - 59.9 MB"Sometimes it makes sense to have a 'common sense' guy next to a 'PHD' guy." - Peter Kambolin (Tweet) Peter Kambolin is the common sense CEO behind Systematic Alpha Management, an Award Winning CTA Firm which has come through the tremendous market forces of the past 10 years. Their staying power is a testament to their success as conscious, ruled based traders. This episode is about his hero's journey from immigrant origins in Moscow to founding a lasting, top financial service company headq...
TTU17: Start Your Own Firm at 21 Years of Age? Russian CEO Tells All ft. Peter Kambolin of Systematic Alpha Management – 1of2
July 28, 2014 01:30 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBPeter Kambolin is the common sense CEO behind Systematic Alpha Management, an Award Winning CTA Firm which has come through the tremendous market forces of the past 10 years. Their staying power is a testament to their success as conscious, ruled based traders. This episode is about his hero’s journey from immigrant origins in Moscow to founding a lasting, top financial service company headquartered in New York City. ----- EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Perfo...
16 You Can’t Learn This In A Book! with Karsten Schroeder of Amplitude Capital – 2of2
July 24, 2014 06:15 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MB"I don't think that anything you can read in a book will work in the sort term trading space." - Karsten Schroeder (Tweet) Welcome back to Top Traders Unplugged. On this episode Karsten and I discuss the systems and implementation that has led Amplitude to such remarkable success. As the interview comes to a close, we learn about Karsten's philosophy of success and entrepreneurship. Despite being based outside the global financial hubs (i.e. New York, Chicago, London) Amplitude has experience...
TTU16: You Can’t Learn This In A Book! ft. Karsten Schroeder of Amplitude Capital – 2of2
July 24, 2014 04:15 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBWelcome back to Top Traders Unplugged. On this episode Karsten and I discuss the systems and implementation that has led Amplitude to such remarkable success. As the interview comes to a close, we learn about Karsten’s philosophy of success and entrepreneurship. Despite being based outside the global financial hubs (i.e. New York, Chicago, London) Amplitude has experienced world class results. He provides a deep philosophy on achieving success in the CTA industry. ----- EXCEPTIONAL RESOURC...
15 Model Decay and How Best to Handle It with Karsten Schroeder of Amplitude Capital – 1of2
July 21, 2014 07:30 - 46 minutes - 43 MB"When you build short term trading models, it's all green-field research." - Karsten Schroeder (Tweet) Through courage and vision, Karsten Schroeder co-founded Amplitude Capital as a pioneer in the CTA industry. Why pioneers? Because they focused on short term trading. In this episode of Top Traders Unplugged, Karsten and Niels discuss Amplitude Capital's scientific approach to Amplitude Dynamic and Amplitude Klassik. These are the two short-term rule based trading programs that Karsten and...
TTU15: Model Decay & How Best to Handle It ft. Karsten Schroeder of Amplitude Capital – 1of2
July 21, 2014 05:30 - 46 minutes - 43 MBThrough courage and vision, Karsten Schroeder co-founded Amplitude Capital as a pioneer in the CTA industry. Why pioneers? Because they focused on short term trading. In this episode of Top Traders Unplugged, Karsten and I discuss Amplitude Capital’s scientific approach to Amplitude Dynamic and Amplitude Klassik. These are the two short-term rule based trading programs that Karsten and his team run to invest billions of dollars on behalf on a small group of institutional investors. ----- ...
14 “You’re going to make a lot of money doing this…” with Jerry Parker, The Full Turtle Story – 2of2
July 16, 2014 22:30 - 1 hour - 62.3 MB"You're going to make a lot of money doing this so you should love everything about the system that's going to produce all those profits. All you have to do is have the confidence and the faith to keep going and do those trades. That's the only thing that stands between you and your best chance of achieving what you want to achieve." Today we will continue our conversation with Jerry Parker the founder of Chesapeake Capital and widely known as the most successful Turtle ever. After wrapping ...
TTU14: “You’re going to make a lot of money doing this…” ft. Jerry Parker – 2of2
July 16, 2014 20:30 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBToday we will continue our conversation with Jerry Parker the founder of Chesapeake Capital and widely known as the most successful Turtle ever. After wrapping up his position with Richard J. Dennis as a famous “Turtle,” he went on to start his own asset management firm, Chesapeake Capital Corporation. In this episode we discuss the evolving CTA industry and the story of Chesapeake. It’s a powerful story from one of the most successful people in the industry. We really hope you enjoy it. ...
13 Lessons From the Most Successful Turtle of All-Time with Jerry Parker, The Full Turtle Story – 1of2
July 13, 2014 22:00 - 1 hour - 61.8 MB"You're sort of tempted after a certain period of under performance to tinker with your systems and call up research. Then as soon as you implement the new research you find out, well the older systems would have performed better" Imagine you found an advertisement in the newspaper offering a position with a one sentence application process. Would you take it? What if it was for a position where you would learn a proprietary trading system in which you would trade solely for owner of the f...
TTU13: Lessons From the Most Successful Turtle of All-Time ft. Jerry Parker – 1of2
July 13, 2014 20:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBImagine you found an advertisement in the newspaper offering a position with a one sentence application process. Would you take it? What if it was for a position where you would learn a proprietary trading system in which you would trade solely for owner of the firm? What if that man was Richard Dennis? Our next guest took that position in 1983 and it changed his life forever, for the better. He found himself with what was to become a famous title, a Turtle. He was given the opportunity ...
12 The Philosophy, Habits and Personal Traits Required to Excel in the Hedge Fund Industry with Mathias Bucher of AllMountainCapital – 2of2
July 10, 2014 07:30 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MB"I think we are in a major, industrialization of the finance industry. The CTA industry is no exception" Welcome back to Top Traders Unplugged. In this episode we continue our conversation with Dr. Mathias Bucher the Co-Founder of AllMountainCapital. In this episode we go deep in the philosophy, habits and personal traits required to excel in the hedge fund industry. It's a pleasure to have you here and we hope you enjoy the episode. In This Episode, You'll Learn: About Stop Loss, Risk ...
TTU12: The Philosophy, Habits and Personal Traits Required to Excel in the Hedge Fund Industry ft. Mathias Bucher of AllMountainCapital – 2of2
July 10, 2014 05:30 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MBWelcome back to Top Traders Unplugged. In this episode we continue our conversation with Dr. Mathias Bucher the Co-Founder of AllMountainCapital. In this episode we go deep in the philosophy, habits and personal traits required to excel in the hedge fund industry. It’s a pleasure to have you here and we hope you enjoy the episode. In This Episode, You’ll Learn: About Stop Loss, Risk Management and overall Exit Strategies How the current drawdown is effecting current testing and research...
11 Lessons From a Highly Educated Founder and Fund Manager with Mathias Bucher of AllMountainCapital – 1of2
July 07, 2014 01:30 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MB"We strive to have a selective portfolio of not very many positions. Essentially, picking the best trends out there and combining them into the portfolio in a way that provides an optimum de-correlation of these candidates" Our next show provides you with the opportunity to learn from a highly educated founder and fund manager. He Studied Economics at the Luzon Universidad de Carlos III de Madrid. He went on to earn a PhD in Quantitative Finance in Evolutionary Finance at University of Zuric...
TTU11: Lessons From a Highly Educated Founder & Fund Manager ft. Mathias Bucher of AllMountainCapital – 1of2
July 06, 2014 23:30 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBOur next show provides you with the opportunity to learn from a highly educated founder and fund manager. He Studied Economics at the Luzon Universidad de Carlos III de Madrid. He went on to earn a PhD in Quantitative Finance in Evolutionary Finance at University of Zurich. Upon graduating he agreed to a research position with Zurich Capital Bank. Horizon21 made an offer to have Mathias and his business partner Dr. Tilman Keese build a systematic trading program. In 2010 they left Horizon2...
10 He Offers the Fairest Fee Structure in the Industry with Marty Bergin of Dunn Capital Management – 2of2
July 03, 2014 05:30 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MB"If a trader was to not execute on one of the trades that the system generated, that would be the quickest way out the door at Dunn." What are you going to do to differentiate yourself from everyone else in the industry? That's the question Marty Bergin would ask the next guest on Top Traders Unplugged. Welcome back for the second part of our interview with, Marty Bergin. In This Episode, You'll Learn: How trade decisions are generated and executed at Dunn Capital Management The way Ma...
TTU10: The Fairest Fee Structure in the Industry ft. Marty Bergin of DUNN Capital Management – 2of2
July 03, 2014 03:30 - 39 minutes - 36.7 MBWhat are you going to do to differentiate yourself from everyone else in the industry? That’s the question Marty Bergin would ask the next guest on Top Traders Unplugged. Welcome back for the second part of our interview with, Marty Bergin. ----- EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder Tool In This Episode, You’ll Learn: How trade decisions are generated and executed at DUNN Capital Management The way Mart...
09 Forty Years of Trading and Still Making NEW Highs with Marty Bergin of Dunn Capital Management – 1of2
June 29, 2014 22:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MB”My comment to him [Bill Dunn] was that I had a really good thing going so I wasn’t sure that that would really be the right move to make, and his response to me was, 'that’s fine, I’m not sure you can really handle it.'” Our next guest is a partner in a firm that has enjoyed 40 years of trading success with a 30 year continues track record of their WMA program. The track record of the organization, Dunn Capital Management, is world-class. The legendary Bill Dunn offered partnership to our n...
TTU09: 40+ Years of Trading & Still Making NEW Highs ft. Marty Bergin of DUNN Capital Management – 1of2
June 29, 2014 20:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBOur next guest is a partner in a firm that has enjoyed 40+ years of trading success with a 35+ year continues track record of their WMA program. The track record of the organization, DUNN Capital Management, is world-class. The legendary Bill Dunn offered partnership to our next guest and he replied, “I’m happy with where I am.” Bill’s response will make you laugh. Please enjoy my conversation with, Marty Bergin. In This Episode, You’ll Learn: The Story of DUNN Capital and the Evolution ...
08 Key Traits to Success in the CTA Industry with Martin Estlander of Estlander & Partners – 2of2
June 26, 2014 07:30 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MB"The shorter you go in your trading, the shorter the half-life of the models. The longer the models, the easier it is to see them as robust and not having to react." Today we rejoin the conversation with Martin Estlander the Founder and CEO of Estlander & Partners. If you missed the first part, feel free to listen to it here. In this episode we explore the evolution of the CTA industry, the skills required to run a successful business and finally the fun, less known facts of Martin's life ou...
TTU08: Key Traits to Success in the CTA Industry ft. Martin Estlander of Estlander & Partners – 2of2
June 26, 2014 05:30 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBToday we rejoin the conversation with Martin Estlander the Founder and CEO of Estlander & Partners. If you missed the first part, feel free to listen to it here. In this episode we explore the evolution of the CTA industry, the skills required to run a successful business and finally the fun, less known facts of Martin’s life outside of trading. Welcome to the second part of our conversations with Martin Estlander. ----- EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Perfor...
07 Founder of Scandanavia’s Longest Running CTA Firm Tells All with Martin Estlander of Estlander & Partners – 1of2
June 22, 2014 08:30 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MB"I spend a lot of time thinking about the philosophy behind what's driving the markets and what's driving our human minds." Estlander & Partners - The Oldest CTA firm in Scandinavia and one of the Longest Running CTA firms in the World. Thank you for listening to episode 007 with its founder Martin Estlander. In This Episode, You'll Learn: How Martin got involved in the CTA Industry The Evolution of Estlander & Partners and Where They are Today Founding of an options trading business...
TTU07: Inside Scandinavia’s Longest Running CTA Firm ft. Martin Estlander of Estlander & Partners – 1of2
June 22, 2014 06:30 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBEstlander & Partners – The Oldest CTA firm in Scandinavia and one of the Longest Running CTA firms in the World. Thank you for listening to my conversation with its founder Martin Estlander. In This Episode, You’ll Learn: How Martin got involved in the CTA Industry The Evolution of Estlander & Partners and Where They are Today Founding of an options trading business in Frankfurt in 1991 About the inspiring time in which he was part of the Commodities Corp. team until 1998 when Goldm...
06 Why Trend Following Systems Make Money Over Time with Tushar Chande of Rho Asset Management – 2of2
June 12, 2014 11:12 - 40 minutes - 37.7 MB"The reason that we in the business is because we strongly believe that there is a need for investors to have this offset capability." We're back with the second part of our conversation with the Head of Research at Rho Asset Management. In this episode we discuss the details of Managing Equity Curves, Trade Length in CTA systems and how Rho achieves to get the optimal position size when entering new trades. Thank you for visiting, now let's continue the interview with Tushar Chande. In Thi...
TTU06: Why Trend Following Systems Make Money Over Time ft. Tushar Chande – 2of2
June 12, 2014 09:12 - 40 minutes - 37.7 MBWe’re back with the second part of our conversation with the Head of Research at Rho Asset Management. In this episode we discuss the details of Managing Equity Curves, Trade Length in CTA systems and how Rho achieves to get the optimal position size when entering new trades. Thank you for visiting, now let’s continue the interview with Tushar Chande. In This Episode, You’ll Learn: How Rho creates for algorithms to decide the size of a new position The difference between the models in te...
05 What You Must Do To Survive In This Business with Tushar Chande of Rho Asset Management – 1of2
June 09, 2014 11:11 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MB“You have to be an optimist in this business to survive, you have to bring an original point of view, why you want to do it in a certain way and you need to be able to explain to people in a way that makes sense to them why you are doing what you are doing” On today’s show I am talking to Tushar Chande, Co-Founder and Head of Research at Rho Asset Management. Tushar is also the author of a number of books on the topic of how to design rule based trading systems as well as having been activel...
TTU05: What You Must Do To Survive In the CTA Business ft. Tushar Chande – 1of2
June 09, 2014 09:11 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MBOn today’s show I am talking to Tushar Chande, Co-Founder and Head of Research at Rho Asset Management. Tushar is also the author of a number of books on the topic of how to design rule based trading systems as well as having been actively trading these systems for more than 20 years. ----- EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder Tool In This Episode, You’ll Learn: Why the random nature of the markets attrac...
04 What it Takes to Become a Great Trader with Mike Dever of Brandywine Asset Management – 2of2
June 05, 2014 11:10 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MB"Why is what you're doing going to continue into the future similar to what you're showing me that you've done in the past?" In this episode we continue our conversation with the founder and CEO of Brandywine Asset Management and discuss the aspects of what makes his rule based asset management style so successful. This is episode 004 with, Mike Dever. In This Episode, You'll Learn: Continuing the Conversation around why Trend Following can be more difficult Describing Disparate Return...
TTU04: What it Takes to Become a Great Trader ft. Mike Dever of Brandywine Asset Management – 2of2
June 05, 2014 09:10 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBIn this episode we continue our conversation with the founder and CEO of Brandywine Asset Management and discuss the aspects of what makes his rule based asset management style so successful. Enjoy the second part of my conversation with, Mike Dever. ----- EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder Tool In This Episode, You’ll Learn: Continuing the Conversation around why Trend Following can be more difficult ...
03 How To Get Predictable Returns with Mike Dever of Brandywine Asset Management – 1of2
June 02, 2014 13:22 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MB"They were asking...How do we achieve the most optimal performance? And they got that. But the question that they should have been asking was...How do I get the most predictable performance? - Nothing else matters."
TTU03 How To Get Predictable Returns ft. Mike Dever of Brandywine Asset Management – 1of2
June 02, 2014 11:22 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBOn today’s show I am talking to Mike Dever, the Founder and CEO of Brandywine Asset Management. Mike is a Divergent Thinking Systematic Investment Manager and Author of the best selling book “Jackass Investing”. Mike has been trading for almost 4 decades and shares a wealth of insight to how he has stayed successful and how his trading approach and research has stayed current in an ever changing financial landscape. ----- EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Perfor...
02 Why The Game of Picking Sectors is a Fool’s Errand with Jason Gerlach of Sunrise Capital Partners – 2of2
May 29, 2014 13:24 - 1 hour - 57.5 MB"Research and implementation are, by far, the core of our business."
TTU02: Why The Game of Picking Sectors is a Fool’s Errand ft. Jason Gerlach of Sunrise Capital Partners – 2of2
May 29, 2014 11:24 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBWelcome back to our conversation with Jason Gerlach of Sunrise Capital Partners. In this interview we discuss the history of Sunrise Capital Partners, the current evolution in their financial product line and the inner workings of what it takes to make it as a successful trading organization in the ever changing market conditions. ----- EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder Tool In This Episode, You’ll Lear...
01 Are Research Ideas Overrated? CEO Says Yes. with Jason Gerlach of Sunrise Capital Partners – 1of2
May 26, 2014 18:23 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MB"It's not about how much money you manage in this business, it's about the quality. Can you deliver returns for your investors? If the quality is not there, the quantity will never come."
TTU01: Are Research Ideas Overrated? ft. Jason Gerlach of Sunrise Capital Partners – 1of2
May 26, 2014 16:23 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBSunrise Capital was the first CTA (Commodity Trading Advisor) ever. The company has evolved considerably since its inception in the 1970s. Today on the show, Jason Gerlach, the Chief Executive Officer at Sunrise Capital joins us to discuss the history of the company and about the evolution of their trading strategy over nearly 4 decades. Sunrise has achieved astounding results over the lifetime of the company and Jason provides unique insights to the inner workings of Sunrise. ----- EXCE...