Top Traders Unplugged
Top Traders Unplugged is where the world’s best investors come to share how they think - not just what they trade.Hosted by Niels Kaastrup-Larsen, the show goes deep into systematic trend following, global macro, and the principles that drive long-term success.No forecasts. No fads. Just real conversations with hedge fund managers, economists, authors, and allocators - revealing the timeless ideas, mental models, and risk frameworks behind robust performance.If you're building resilient portfoli...
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BO45: Should You Adjust Your Position Size During A Trade?
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BO44: How much should I Allocate to Trend Following?
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BO43: Are CTAs Causing Market Sell-Offs?
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BO42: The value of Big Data & AI will be Tested during the Coronavirus Turmoil
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BO41: How to Deal with Clients During Drawdowns
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SI80: Why uncomfortable trades can turn out to be the most profitable ft. Eric C...
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BO40: Does Jerry Parker Trade Synthetic Instruments?
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BO39: Can Market Timing using Technical Indicators be Profitable?
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BO38: Systematic vs Discretionary Investing
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BO37: Does Trend Following still work? Comments from David Harding, Cliff Asness...
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BO36: The Time It Takes To Stick With Your Rules
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SI79: A historical volatile week put into perspective ft. Robert Carver
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BO35: A Month in the Life of a CTA
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BO34: More Fiction in Excel than in Word
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BO33: Howard Marks & Limiting Downside Potential
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BO32: Trend Following: The Perfect Hedge, or the Perfect Portfolio?
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BO31: Equity Indices – Who Wants To Be Average?
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SI78: Tom Basso’s research on higher Trend Following returns as volatility incre...
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BO30: Historical Data, Backtests, & Track Records
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BO29: Trend Following vs Buy & Hold
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BO28: Long Trades Vs. Short Trades
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BO27: 2019 In Review – The Investor’s RetroSpective
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SI77: Trading through the quickest 10% correction in stock market history
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SI76: Can trading too many markets prevent you from achieving above average retu...
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SI75: Morgan Housel on history being a bad guide for the future
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SI74: Trading TESLA during its parabolic move
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SI73: How too much experience can work against your investments
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SI72: Crisis and how CTAs provide protection during stock market declines
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SI71: The "quant winter" and the reliability of fundamental analysis
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SI70: How to design and backtest your system ft. Andreas Clenow (Part 2)
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SI69: Richard Thaler on the perils of overconfidence and how to overcome it
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SI68: The surprising relationship between volatility and risk
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SI67: The psychology of predictions
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SI66: Why price is a better guide to higher returns than expert opinion
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SI65: How doing less can ensure bigger and better returns over time
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SI64: The difference between Warehousing vs Recognising Risk
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SI63: Are stock pickers overrated?
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SI62: The benefits of running a multi-strategy portfolio
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SI61: Jim Simons & Renaissance Technologies
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SI60: The dangers of "Home" bias and the benefits of Diversification
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SI59: The dangers of investing in "stories" but why we all do it
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SI58: The consequences of Bank of America declaring the END of the 60/40 portfol...
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SI57: Why investors confuse volatility & noise with risk & instability
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SI56: The risk of smooth and steady returns for risk avers investors
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TTU111: Alignment of Interest ft. Alan Sheen of Dalton Street Capital – 2of2
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SI55: Aligning your investments with the best odds and why the Sharpe needs salt
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TTU110: The Opportunity of Volatility ft. Alan Sheen of Dalton Street Capital –...
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SI54: Why NOT losing money is more important than missing opportunities
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RT27: Why Emotion overrides cognition...dramatically ft. Daniel Crosby – 2of2
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SI53: Why most successful Hedge Funds employ Systematic strategies
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