My guest today is Nigol Koulajian, the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Quest Partners LLC. He has been designing and trading short-term and long-term technical systems for over 22 years.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Trend following performance in 2014
• Volatility vs. skew
• Why having a good Sharpe Ratio is not the be-all-end-all
• The notion that alpha in the CTA world is not a result of skill
• Correlation between tail risk and the Sharpe Ratio
• Central bank action and the Swiss Franc
• Why trend following may not be as good in equity market corrections now as it has been in the past
• Why trend following is not about the super-complicated mathematics
• Getting outsiders to understand drawdowns
• Emotional intelligence vs. intellectual intelligence
• Media bias against trend following

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