Long volatility is used by hedge funds as a small fraction of their strategy, so that they are sort of balanced against some crazy event. It's not something that's like, super retail accessible. People do try and trade this themselves. You can do that. I've tried to do it. But the people that are doing that fairly successfully rite our quantitative teams,. We would combine these at our level, and we could give much smaller retail investors, or ne non institutional investors, access to these strategies. And then in terms of icowit fits in a portfolio. No one likeme. The avenetasps at this point, bu sort of combining those all into a brod portfolio
Topics:
(6:21) - What is your specific knowledge?
(7:20) - Taylor’s career
(12:38) - Transaction Cost Economics
(20:02) - The work behind Taylor’s first book: The End of Jobs
(21:20) - Was publishing that book a major inflection point in your career?
(23:53) - Taylor’s writing on the crypto space and work in investing & finance
(29:03) - Mutiny Funds
(32:57) - The Long-Volatility Strategy
(36:33) - The Thousand-Year Portfolio
(40:49) - Who is using the long-volatility strategy and how are they using it?
(43:16) - What does the strategy look like day to day?
(50:07) - Volatility Index
(55:33) - Are there future products in the funnel for Mutiny?
(57:44) - What do you look for in the hedge funds you assemble?
(1:00:20) - How long have you been building this core of knowledge?
(1:04:11) - How do you know when to shift your focus?
(1:07:11) - Are there people you look up to who are great examples of playing the long game?
(1:09:25) - What is the long game for Mutiny?
(1:12:49) - How do you maintain discipline when the world tells you to take the other path?
(1:16:22) - What mental model do you use most often?