Ep. 296: Ewan Kirk Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
My guest today is Ewan Kirk, the head of Cantab Capital and has brought his firm from $30M AUM in 2006 to over $5B today. Kirk employs several strategies but clearly uses a trend following foundation.
The topic is Trend Following.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- How consistent and predictable profits are the Holy Grail–you’re never going to get there
- Kirk’s background
- Why computer programming is “today’s literacy”
- Standing out from the crowd
- Trend following in the European scene vs. America
- Weighting positions based on risk
- Talking to clients and explaining that losses are statistically inevitable
- Whether the demand for discretionary traders is waning
- How discretionary traders look at a trader like Kirk who is 100% systematic
- Why discretionary intervention in a systematic trading strategy disqualifies it from being truly systematic
- Proving a strategy as broken rather than proving that it’s right
- Why randomness is everything
- Uncertainty and convictions about technique
- Capturing the realism of the world in your trading strategy
- What actually benefits the economy, society, and the world
- Seeking client feedback and understanding a client’s drivers
- The importance of consistent marginal improvements
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