Top Traders Unplugged24 Jul 2014

TTU16: You Can’t Learn This In A Book! ft. Karsten Schroeder of Amplitude Capital – 2of2

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 experienced world class results. He provides a deep philosophy on achieving success in the CTA industry.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

Allocation of capital from a stop-loss point of view when doing short term trading
Amplitude Capital’s systems for trade implementation
Why high frequency trading is a very different strategy from that of Amplitude Capital’s
Risk management strategies and the framework for embedding these principles into the Amplitude Capital operations
Exploring the meaning of market correlation in short term CTA strategies
Karsten Schroeder’s philosophy on drawdowns
How managers can do a better job of explaining drawdowns
The role of teamwork and processes in the research cycle
The internal processes for validating implementation of strategies at Amplitude Captial
Karsten Schroeder’s explanation for why Amplitude has experienced such success
Do financial leaders need to live in financial hubs? How living outside of the financial hubs has impacted Amplitude Capital
The difference between European CTA managers and US counterparts. Why has the market dominance shifted?
The philosophy of failure that empowers Karsten Schroeder’s entrepreneurial journey
What continues to inspire Karsten to keep running the business
The question investors are not asking that they should be:

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