TTU05: What You Must Do To Survive In the CTA Business ft. Tushar Chande – 1of2
Top Traders Unplugged
Commissions, Maximum Drawdown, and Risk Control
The chapter discusses trading commissions, maximum drawdown in investments, risk control in investing in CTA's, and expresses optimism for future performance.
On today’s show I am talking to Tushar Chande, Co-Founder and Head of Research at Rho Asset Management. Tushar is also the author of a number of books on the topic of how to design rule based trading systems as well as having been actively trading these systems for more than 20 years.
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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
- Why the random nature of the markets attracted Tushar to develop systems for trading these markets
- Background information on Rho Asset Management and it’s philosophy
- How Tushar utilizes behaviors of discretionary traders to make estimates of conviction about their individual trades
- How Rho has designed it’s Altius Program to offer meaningful protection when equity markets go down
- What to be aware of when exploring an Asset Manager’s performance over a 20 year period
- Offense/Defense Ratio, What it means and How to use it to Measure the quality of systems design
- How Rho’s models have been designed in order to achieve the overall objective of the Program
- What Trend Following Indicators are used for and why
- Exploring the volatility of the equity curve
- The input data needed to run the Altius Program, the time it takes and when they run the model
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Resources & Links Mentioned in this Episode:
- Beyond Technical Analysis by Dr. Tushar Chande
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