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Ep. 596: Rob Arnott Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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The Quant Community Is a Failure

If you've got too many moving parts, it's easier for something to break. The old notion of keep it as simple as possible without losing effectiveness or make it as only as complex as necessary is wrong. Take the simplest route. Simple says, instead of waiting a company by its popularity, by its market capitalization, why don't we wait the company by how big it is? And it turns out it doesn't matter which measure you use, any of these measures adds about one and a half to two percent a year going back 50, 60 years.

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