Asif Noor – Modern Systematic Macro (S6E9)
Flirting with Models
How to Balance Conviction and Risk Management
When you talk about having hundreds of alpha signals, the question of marginal benefit comes to mind. Do you think that that's a time to lean into that conviction when all of these theoretically independent signals are saying hey you should execute this very similar trade or is that something that should be tapered for risk control reasons? I would really lead more towards risk management if it was just loss making and now I've added a lot more risk so I would reallylead more towards riskmanagement. And then you have a bit of concentration risk going on there. And the downside is a loss not costly it's a bit asymmetric but probably if I was 15 years ago I would have a different answer as well
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