My guest today is Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, a French physicist. He is co-founder and Chairman of Capital Fund Management, adjunct professor at École Normale Supérieure and co-director of the CFM-Imperial Institute of Quantitative Finance at Imperial College London.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• His firm’s performance for 2014
• Whether trend following actually “died” prior to it’s “reappearance” in 2014
• What trend following manages to exploit
• Exploiting vs. exploring
• Looking at volatility as a precursor to profit
• Volatility as a measure of risk
• Trend following as a genuine market anomaly
• The behavioral biases in play as oil has fallen fifty percent plus
• The feedback Bouchaud has received from peers on his newest paper
• Whether other strategies exploit a genuine market anomaly
• Bouchaud’s philosophy on transparency and “secrets” in his work
• Why Bouchaud’s work culture is not a culture of MBA’s

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