SI11: Why hire a manager when you can DIY your Trend Following?

Welcome to The Systematic Investor series. It’s a great privilege for me to invite you to a behind the scenes conversation between some of my favorite systematic investors namely Jerry Parker and Moritz Seibert. We get on a “call” each week to discuss the events that took place through the lens of a Systematic Investor and how the trading strategies we work with are reacting. It’s a raw and honest exploration and we hope you will join and be part of…not least by sending us questions that we can discuss.

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Episode TimeStamps:

00:00 – Intro

01:30 – Weekly review of performance

26:50 – Top tweets

35:50 – Question 1: Brian; How do you onboard clients?

43:40 – Question 2: Mike; If you could only choose one word to describe the key benefit of TF what would it be/how would you describe TF in a minute or less?

50:10 – Question 3: George; Since TF rules are known, why hire a manager (vs build my own TF strategy)?

01:00:30 – Question 4: George; How should an investor select a specific TF manager?

01:05:20- Question 5: George; Why hire an active TF manager with higher fees vs hiring a lower fee TF “beta” manager?

01:09:30 – Question 6: Francois; Are there CTAs/HFs still using point and figure charts?

01:13:00 – Benchmark performance update

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