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Our next guest has started and invested in many companies, and is from an entrepreneurial background. First and foremost, he is concerned with running a business, but he also knew he wanted to be a portfolio manager from an early age. Hear the fascinating story of Oliver Steinki on this episode, as we dive into his new firm and the details behind his models and strategy.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:The entrepreneurial background that Oliver comes from.How he studied in Germany, Madrid, and Manchester.About his childhood and when he started to realize he was interested in mathematics and finance.What he likes doing when he is not managing his own firm.What algorithmic trading is all about.How the scientific trading model generates signals.What the trade implementation phase entails and how it works.What it is that Oliver is trying to deliver to his investors.About the other

In the second part of our conversation with Mike Coleman, we explore the different commodity markets and how RCMA trades them, and look back at the drawdowns that Mike has gone through and what he has learned from them. We discuss risk, idea generation, and what it takes to build a successful firm.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:How correlation plays an important role in what Mike does.What he thinks of the current oil market and the outlook for oil.How they use relative value trading and what that is.What process they have for getting an idea into an actual position.How they have a different relationship between trader and analyst than other firms do.How he defines risk and how he looks at risk management.What he has learned from the drawdowns he has gone through.How to get the investor’s confidence in the manager to a place where they don’t drop out at the worst time.Why regulat

Our next guest lives in Singapore, where he founded a firm that trades in the commodity markets. In this episode, we trace his upbringing in the UK and his first job at Cargill to the start of his firm. We discuss the growth and downsizing periods he has gone through and how he builds a successful business.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:Where Mike grew up and how his upbringing shaped his career.How he was interested in travel from an early age, and found out about commodity trading in his final year of university.How he started out as a commodity merchant with Cargill.How he fell into rubber trading which led him to Singapore in 1984.About the beginnings of RCMA.How the commodity markets have changed over the years, and what kinds of companies are still working with commodity trading.The most important things he learned at Cargill that helped in the management of his o

In our second part of this conversation, we dive into the details of the program that Kim runs. We discuss why it’s important to stick with your models, even in times of severe drawdowns, and how Kim views risk. He also talks about the books and people that have inspired him in his career.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:The details behind the program Kim runs.What he feels about larger drawdowns.What kind of indicators goes into the models that he uses.Why he uses a non-cyclical approach to creating trading models.How he looks at volatility.What kind of mean reversion strategies he uses.How he responded to the Swiss Franc move.How Kim quantifies risk.How do you prepare for a drawdown when you haven’t gone through a significant one?How his firm comes up with new ideas and goes about doing research.The positives and challenges with working as a father and son team in the same f

Kim Bang grew up with his father’s shipping industry in Denmark, and discovered a fascination of the managed futures industry. He went on to work for companies such as Bloomberg and AIG, before founding his current firm with his son. Listen to his story and find out what makes a firm that can compete in the managed futures industry.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:How Kim grew up in Denmark with his dad in the shipping business.How he got into futures markets through his dad’s business.Kim’s education in the U.S. and his first job on Wall Street.How he left AIG to start his own business.His time at Bloomberg building and running their TradeBook system.About Kim’s son’s research club at New York University.How he decided what to do next after his company was sold.How he launched Prolific Capital Markets in 2013.What he does when he’s not working.How he built his business.The funds n

In the second part of our conversation with Barnaby Cardwell, we dive into the details of his program, how he built his company, and what he thinks it takes to be a good manager of a trading firm.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:What indicators Barnaby considers more reliable.How he gets into a trade.How important is the position sizing?How much AUM his model can handle.Risk management: how he defines risk and what he does to mitigate it.What he has learned from drawdowns.What keeps Barnaby awake at night.Trading spread between markets and the research his firm is doing into that space.Why he focuses on the managed-account route.How he stands out from the crowd to attract investors.About “key-man” risk.What potential investors don’t ask in their due diligence questions.What it takes to be a great trader.What books have inspired him in trading and life.What his biggest fai

Our next guest is a fund manager in the short-term space, and thus is distinct from many of the guests on this podcast. He discusses how he got into the financial markets from a young age, and why he decided to trade in the short term space in order to separate himself from the competition. Listen in for details into his program and how he started his hedge fund.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:How Barnaby grew up and what got him interested in the financial markets.Why he left being a broker and went in to a more systematic approach.How he met his future business partner.How they started his fund in late 2008.What it was about the Market Wizards books that captured his imagination.What he does to compete outside of trading.His first mentor and what he taught Barnaby.Why he decided to go short term.How automation has changed his industry.How he gets through the hard times in the ma

In this second episode with Mahendra, he dives into his predictions for 2015 and the next few years, detailing his thoughts on markets from currencies, gold and silver to oil and real estate markets. He discusses how he sees key geo-political events resolving or worsening in the years to come. You may gain advice and insight that will change how you trade and what you trade in the financial markets!-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:The drastic rise in volatility Mahendra is expecting for this year and next.What he thinks about where Oil is going to go.What happens when his predictions come true very quickly.His predictions and success with the gold market and the 52-year era for gold.What he thinks about Copper and Silver.What he sees for the major currencies going forward.How Mahendra sees the future of the European Union and their currency.What he predicts that does not pertain to

Welcome to an episode of Top Trader’s Unplugged unlike any other. We take a break from interviews with hedge fund managers and invite you into the fascinating world of financial astrology. Mahendra Sharma dedicates his astrology and predictions work exclusively on the financial markets, and has had an astonishing accuracy of predicting market events. Learn about his story, including his upbringing without electricity in his home, on this episode.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:Why Mahendra is completely different than any of the other guests that have been on the podcast.How he got into predicting the financial markets.The story of his astrologer grandfather who lost his eyesight.How he came out with his first predictions at the age of 20.How he made a fortune in technology stocks based on his own predictions.The way he wrote his first book that came out in South Africa.How he gre

In the second part of our talk with Mike Shell, we delve into the specifics of his program and why most of his clients have 100% of their investments with his firm. He discusses backtesting, risk management, and the differences between purely systematic systems and systems with a discretionary element. Listen in for an inside look at this fascinating firm.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:How people should look at Mike’s 10 year track record and how his models have evolved over that time.How much of the strategy is machine run and how much is human run.What he does when he backtest a system.How he started out as a chartist in the 1990s.What is it that he can’t systematize.The difference between a trader that is purely systematic and one that has a discretionary element, however small.How his investors use his program.What his approach to risk management is and how it plays out with

Most trend following firms have clients that invest somewhere between 2 and 20% of their portfolio with that firm, but Mike Shell’s firm is different. His strategy is tailored to a specific customer, and almost all of his clients have their entire investment portfolios with his firm. We dive into the specifics of Shell Capital Management in this episode, and how Mike grew up in the southern United States with a military background to become the owner of his own firm.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:The ways that Mike’s firm is different from other firms.His upbringing in Tennessee.How he started Shell Capital in 2004.The books that influenced him in his trend following education.What his experience was in the brokerage world.Why he left the brokerage world and what gave him the courage to become an entrepreneur.His experience in the military and law enforcement.What

In this year-end review, Marc Malek explains why intervention in the markets affects trend following, but also why trend following strategies are not long volatility strategies. He discusses 2014 from the point of view of his firm, how his program did, and why he is excited about 2015.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:How 2014 treated Conquest Capital.How volatility shows itself in a market like oil.What strategies performed well and what markets contributed to their success.How he prepares himself for extreme volatility and how he dealt with the Swiss Franc move.What intervention does to the markets.How his firm would plan for our react to a big market change such as the break up of the Euro overnight.Why people use correlation in the wrong way.-----ATTENTION TTU TRIBE : SIGN-UP for Rick Rule's Symposium: Once in a life-time natural resource insights from the BEST investors in the

This year in review covers how Aspect Capital came out of 2014 with their best year ever as a company, and what they learned from the year. Martin Lueck discusses the events that made 2014 a roller coaster ride, as well as the importance of always staying agnostic in your allocation to different sectors.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:Why 2014 was a roller coaster ride for Aspect Capital.How 2014 was the best year ever on record for Martin’s firm.Why CTAs spend most of the time being in a certain level of drawdown and how they have to be psychologically prepared for that.What markets didn’t perform for his firm.How Martin reacted to the Swiss Franc move that happened recently.How conversations with investors changed over the year.Why educating investors is important.-----ATTENTION TTU TRIBE : SIGN-UP for Rick Rule's Symposium: Once in a life-time natural resource insights fro

On our next year-in-review, Mike Dever talks about how 2014 evolved for his firm and what they learned from the year. He discusses the changes they made to their program as well as the recent Swiss Franc move and what they learned from that. He also talks about why investors need to keep the long term view in mind when investing, and not re-evaluate the program every time the profits take a dip.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:What Mike’s firm does that blends together different strategies in order to diversify a portfolio.How 2014 was for his firm.Why they had a great first quarter to 2014 when most CTAs did not.How the Interest Rate sector and Agriculture sector did well for the program.Why he saw the Swiss Franc move coming.How they are in a continual process of learning and subsequently improving their program.Convergent vs. Divergent environments and what Mike is looking forwa

Aref Karim has been on the institutional investing side and the fund manager side for many years, so he has some great insights into how each group thinks and ways they can understand each other better. In this episode, Aref reviews 2014 from the perspective of QCM and discusses the research upgrades that the firm started to their program, and how they dealt with the events of the year, including the recent Swiss Franc move.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:About the two programs that his firm trades.How 2014 went for Aref and his firm.About the upgrades that the firm started in late 2013.Where their largest gains came from in 2014.The opportunities that no one predicted in 2014.How they dealt with the Swiss Franc move in early 2015.How institutional investors are looking at the managed futures space as we enter 2015.What 2015 looks like for his firm.-----ATTENTION TTU TRIBE : SIGN-

In this year-end review, Luc van Hof discusses what he learned from 2014 and how his firm innovated to create better gains for customers in 2015. He also talks about the Swiss Franc and why he was not trading it when the major move happened in 2015.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:The two programs that his firm trades.What kind of risk both of his programs take on.What 2014 taught Luc.What he learned from the Swiss Franc move.Why they didn’t trade the Swiss Franc…on the day of the big move.Why he wishes they could have taken a holiday for 6 months after the end of June.The advantage of trading frequently.The new innovation that his firm started this year.His thoughts on volatility.-----ATTENTION TTU TRIBE : SIGN-UP for Rick Rule's Symposium: Once in a life-time natural resource insights from the BEST investors in the world via a first-class livestream or Live event!Resources &

Jerry Parker takes us inside 2014 for his firm, and how his models reacted to the Swiss Franc move in January of 2015. He looks at the year and makes a case for trend following as an asset class, as well as highlights what we can learn from a year like 2014.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:How the year ended up for Jerry’s firm.The date when his system started getting short Crude Oil.What they could have done better in 2014.How he dealt with the Swiss Franc move in January 2015 and how many ATR he made and lost on 2 different CHF positions.The minor changes they’ve made to increase diversification of their trading systems.What he wishes for 2015.-----ATTENTION TTU TRIBE : SIGN-UP for Rick Rule's Symposium: Once in a life-time natural resource insights from the BEST investors in the world via a first-class livestream or Live event!Resources & Links Mentioned in this Episode:List

In this year-end-review, we take a look at how 2014 might be seen many years into the future. Is this when “trader-less” systematic trading caught on? We take you into the workings of a 1-year-old trading technology company, how they succeeded, and where they are going in the future.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:It was their first year of trading under the public eye.How consistent the statistics were the entire year.How the backtest matched up with live data in 2014.What led to their profits and where they lost money.Why it’s hard to draw conclusions that tie trades back to world events.How they made a lot of money in the first half of the year when other trend followers were having a difficult time.About their one-year birthday party.The improvements they made during the year.How 2015 will see a “refined” interest in trend following CTAs.-----ATTENTION TTU TRIBE : SIGN-UP

In this year-end-review, we discuss the year for CTAs and short term traders, as well as the recent collapse of the Euro/Swiss Franc peg and how that affected the models of Quest Partners. Nigol discusses his goals and thoughts for 2015 and reflects on a 2014 that saw his firm start two new strategies and take in new investment.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:How Quest Partners did in 2014.Why fixed income was the highest contributor to his gains during the year.What models did well in 2014.What the Euro/Swiss Franc collapse can teach us about risk management.How do we prepare for the unthinkable?The details of how his models reacted to the Swiss Franc surge.What the highlights of 2014 were for Nigol.About the two hedge strategies that they started in 2014.How investors should insure they don’t repeat 2011 and 2012.How the “Black Box” of CTAs is not as mysterious as it used t

In this Year End Review, we discuss the major events and unexpected market trends in 2014 as well as the major Swiss Franc move at the start of 2015. Scot Billington discusses his firm’s performance what they learned from their losses and gains, and how they evolved their models. He also talks about why they were able to keep losses low in 2014.-----EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder ToolIn This Episode, You’ll Learn:An overview of what happened in 2014 and where they made money.Which factors contributed to profits in 2014 and which factors were the laggards.Dissecting the market effect of sliding oil prices in 2nd half of 2014 and the “un-pegging” of the Swiss Franc to the Euro.Evolving perspectives on risk management in response to events of 2014.Deconstructing the Optimal Program and how to mitigate risk in higher leverage environments.Actions taken to keep a typical program or an Optimal Program from going to zero.Cha