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Ep. 128: The Man Behind The Curtain with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

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CTA's Trend Following Is What They Do

Some of the world's biggest quant funds have suffered steep losses in the past two weeks following the sell off and global bond markets. Also called CTA's, which use computer models to automatically spot and ride market trends were caught out as investors anticipated an end to the Federal Reserve's measures to stimulate the US economy. So this reporter, now once again, we're in the context of chaos. We've seen this over the last 15 years. And whenever there's a down month in trend following, the reporter is just like, oh, I can make a headline out of that.

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