Mastering Systematic Trading | Systematic Investor 256

Mark Rzepczynski is back to tackle some important topics relating to systematic trading. We discuss whether there is a best time of the year to trade and what has been driving the markets recently, how high interest rates and uncertainty affect investor behaviour, dispersion within markets and how it influences your trend following return. We also discuss quant research, the motivated reasoning bias and the importance of being open minded as a researcher to find better ways of being a trend follower, ways of dealing with transaction costs when building models, optimal ways of performing backtests and much more.

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Episode Summary
00:38 - Is there a best time to trade?
05:07 - What has caught Mark's attention recently?
08:36 - Industry performance update
10:01 - Will we see a change in investor behaviour?
17:04 - The benefit of cash
21:11 - Are guaranteed products making a comeback?
26:18 - The dispersion within markets
32:05 - The Ex ante and Ex post problem for quant research
39:23 - Stay open minded
43:46 - Dealing with transaction costs
56:53 - The road to robust models
01:00:37 - Thanks for listening

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