TTU44: Buy Low & Sell High: Is It Really That Easy? ft. Mark Whitmore of Whitmore Capital Management – 2of2

TTU44: Buy Low & Sell High: Is It Really That Easy? ft. Mark Whitmore of Whitmore Capital Management – 2of2

In the second part of our conversation with the founder of Whitmore Capital Management, we learn the daily challenges, and lessons learned right from the founder and owner of a fledgling firm. We dive into discussions on risk management, drawdown, attracting outside capital, and much more.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

  • How many currencies Mark trades and if he thinks he will trade more in the future.
  • About how he diversifies his system.
  • A case study of the Russian Ruble.
  • His use of charts when looking at currencies.
  • A discussion of cognitive biases.
  • How he compares his system to trend following and how the two models can work in harmony.
  • How he enters and exists a trade using his system.
  • Why he is an “every end of two weeks” trader.
  • How much capital he would like his strategy to manage and how much it can feasibly manage.
  • How he defines risk and manages risk.
  • How he deals with drawdowns as a fund manager.
  • What he learns from going through drawdowns.
  • How he goes about doing research for his strategy without a research team.
  • How he sees red flags in his strategy and when he has changed his model.
  • How Mark goes about marketing and getting interest from investors in his strategy and fund.
  • How he plans to avoid becoming more risk averse as the firm grows.
  • What he thinks about the “key man” issue and what he is doing to plan for the eventuality of leaving his business to someone else.
  • How he decided the location of his business.
  • What the hardest thing will be for him as he tries to grow the business.
  • What investors should be asking him that they are not.
  • What it takes to become a great trader in Mark’s view.
  • What he learned from the baseball card market in the US during his university years.
  • What he has learned from past failures.
  • His favorite books and why he recommends them.

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