Andreas Clenow is a Chief Investment Officer located in Zurich, Switzerland, overseeing many investment strategies over a nine-figure asset base. In today’s interview, we focus mostly on his work within a quant hedge fund. We are covering many trading topics, including trend following strategies and equity momentum strategies. You can also find out why trading own money is not always the best option to do.

Andreas is an author of international bestsellers titled Following the Trend and Stocks on the Move. These books present a quantitative approach to modelling the markets with extensive backtest results. You can also learn from the practitioner how hedge fund business looks from the inside.

No worries if math or statistics is your Achilles’ heel. As Andreas says, scientific papers often are unnecessarily obfuscating the knowledge so that it’s not easily accessible to everyone. He proves it doesn’t have to be the case, explaining complex things, as we could think, in an easy way.

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Larry Connors has over three decades of experience in the financial markets industry and is widely regarded as one of the leading professionals, especially when it comes to systematic quantified short-term trading.

He is the author of many highly acclaimed books including “How Markets Really Work” and “Short Term Trading Strategies That Work“. Larry co-wrote “Street Smarts” with Market Wizard’s legend Linda Raschke. The Technical Analysis of STOCKS & COMMODITIES Magazine selected this book as one of “The Classics” for trading books written in the 20th century.

Today we talk about his latest book, “Buy the fear, sell the greed: 7 behavioural quant strategies for traders“, which proves that behavioural factors can be quantified and used on the markets.

I strongly encourage you to listen to the whole episode, as Larry is fully disclosing one of his strategies from the book, which is really very powerful and having a winning percentage over 90%!

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Robert Pardo is a legendary trader and long-term hedge fund manager. He worked with global firms like Goldman Sachs and Dunn Capitals Management. He’s a pioneer in algorithmic trading and inventor of Walk Forward Analysis. Using his excellent trading system and sound risk management he made 142% return in 2008 and was a Trader of the Year – Futures 2008.

Today we discuss various trading topics, including the reliable testing methodology — Walk Forward Analysis.

Enjoy the show!

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