It was great to be back with Niels where our discussion on the nuances between different trend followers has become an epic miniseries. This episode discusses the broad church of trend following from the perspective of cross-sectional momentum and absolute...
Linus Nilsson is the founder of NilssonHedge, one of the most comprehensive and transparent hedge fund and CTA databases in the world. Based in Amsterdam, NilssonHedge tracks over 2,000 active strategies and more than 2,000 graveyard strategies, covering systematic CTAs,...
David Bush arrived at quantitative trading by an unusual route. He spent his twenties as a professional musician and drummer before pivoting to the financial markets, first as a discretionary trader and eventually as the creator of STRATVERSIFY, a...
Art Holly is one of the most experienced practitioners to appear on The Algorithmic Advantage. He began his career at Union Bank of Switzerland in the 1980s, where he first encountered Market Profile, a framework for understanding market structure through...
Marc Malek grew up in Beirut, studied at Caltech where he received a Pentagon grant to model optimal tank placement on a battlefield using artificial intelligence, and was recruited directly from that research into Wall Street. He founded Conquest Capital...
In Part 2 of the Takahe Capital conversation, Moritz Seibert and Moritz Heiden move from philosophy into the operational details of how the firm builds and manages its strategies. Heiden discusses the in-house trading and backtesting platform that Takahe built...
Takahe Capital was founded by Moritz Seibert, who began trading derivatives at HSBC in the 1990s, later served as CEO and CIO of Munich Re Investment Partners, and co-founded Takahe with head of quantitative research Moritz Heiden, who holds a...
The following extract is a Top Traders Unplugged summary of a conversation between the podcast hosts Niels and Alan with Jerry Parker, Founder of Chesapeake Capital. Click on this link to read the Summary Click on this link to hear...
The following extract is a Top Traders Unplugged summary of a conversation between the podcast hosts Niels and Alan with Brian Proctor, Managing Director at EMC Capital Advisors. Click on this link to read the Summary Click on this link...
We dived deep in this one on the differences between absolute momentum, cross-sectional momentum, ergodic systems, non-ergodic systems and how emergent properties arise in evolving systems when thinking serially as an Outlier Hunter does. Niels was fiercely applying ice and...
