My guest today is Martin Bergin, CEO of Dunn Capital Management. Bill Dunn and Dunn Capital were famously profiled in Covel’s book Trend Following and they have a 39 year track record of trend following performance.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• The early stages of Dunn Capital, and how it arrived where it is today
• Trend following with futures
• Volatility within Dunn’s system, and why volatility is important to the overall performance
• Targeting losses
• How history informs system creation
• Adapting to the marketplace and to available technology
• What it means to be 100% systematic with no overrides
• Defining “black box” systems, and the difference between Dunn Capital’s strategy and black box strategies
• Location in relation to Dunn Capital, and why it isn’t necessary to be in a big city like London or Tokyo
• How the core of Dunn Capital has stayed the same while certain aspects of business has evolved
• Decreasing drawdown without decreasing profitability
• Behavioral finance and dealing with biases
• The adaptive nature of trend following
• Predictive vs. reactive trend following
• Dunn Capital’s fee structure

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