TTU103: Trading In The Medium-Term Space ft. Harold de Boer of Transtrend – 1of2

Harold De Boer is a Managing Director, Member of Management Committee and Member of Board of Directors at Transtrend B.V. Growing up, Harold’s interest in statistics grew out of his work at his family’s dairy farm, and expanded into the world of trading and managed futures. Listen in to learn about Harold’s unique perspective on the industry, his marketing philosophy, and some of the most important lessons he’s learned during his successful career.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• How Harold got started with statistics at a young age
• Why Harold’s first job as a mathematician was intended to be only temporary
• How that first job transformed into Harold’s work at Transtrend
• When the Turtles project was discovered by Transtrend in its early years
• How being bought by a larger organization did not affect Transtrend’s operation
• Some of Harold’s biggest lessons he has learned
• How his time on a dairy farm informs Harold’s approach to trend following
• What investors underestimate and don’t understand about managed futures
• The only thing that actually drives the markets
• How market dynamics changed as a result of the transition from floor trading to electronic trading
• Why Harold believes that Transtrends program should be called “medium-term”
• Why Harold believes positive alpha does not actually exist

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