Simplicity in Trading Strategies: Avoiding Complexity

This chapter emphasizes the importance of simplifying trading approaches for new traders, focusing on one or two key signals to promote stability and predictability. It also highlights the role of randomness in market movements and warns against over-optimization while featuring sponsor messages on financial skill enhancement.

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Trey Lockerbie sits down with Michael Gayed. Michael is the Portfolio Manager at Toroso Asset Management and Writer of the Lead Lag Report. Michael’s white papers have won multiple awards, including the Charles H. Dow Award in 2016. Trey and Michael discussed a lot of quantitative tactics that we don’t often explore on the show. So without further ado, please enjoy this episode with Michael Gayed.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

21:41 - When to use leverage and when not to.
24:16 - The interesting correlation between gold and lumber and how to use it as a key indicator.
28:31 - How a highly active tactical rotation approach can beat the market.
And a whole lot more!

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