My guest today is Dan Collins, a senior producer for CBS News.com. Previously, he was a New York correspondent for U.S. News & World Report and a reporter for the New York Daily News.
The topic is the article Quant Hedge Funds Hit By US Bonds Sell-Off.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Why trend followers are speculators rather than investors
- Why the Financial Times article showed a misunderstanding of trend following in general
- Headlines and what drives them
- Equity-centric writers
- Why long term trend following is disrespected and why there is a bias towards higher frequency, shorter term traders
- Why keeping it simple is a good strategy
- Fees in the managed futures and options industry
- "Volatility value trading"
- "Style drift"
- Why quality trend following traders under the umbrella of "managed futures" allow some lesser strategies to "free ride" on their success
- Different time horizons in trend following
- Why trend following is declared "dead" so often
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