Ep. 313: Jean-Philippe Bouchaud Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Michael Covel's Trend Following
English - January 26, 2015 03:00 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 567 ratingsInvesting Business Science Social Sciences covel followingturtle futures managed michael seykota trader trend Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
My guest today is Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, a French physicist. He is co-founder and Chairman of Capital Fund Management, adjunct professor at École Normale Supérieure and co-director of the CFM-Imperial Institute of Quantitative Finance at Imperial College London.
The topic is Trend Following.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
His firm’s performance for 2014 Whether trend following actually “died” prior to it’s “reappearance” in 2014 What trend following manages to exploit Exploiting vs. exploring Looking at volatility as a precursor to profit Volatility as a measure of risk Trend following as a genuine market anomaly The behavioral biases in play as oil has fallen fifty percent plus The feedback Bouchaud has received from peers on his newest paper Whether other strategies exploit a genuine market anomaly Bouchaud’s philosophy on transparency and “secrets” in his work Why Bouchaud’s work culture is not a culture of MBA’sJump in!
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