AI Snips
Chapters
Transcript
Episode notes
From IPO Proceeds To Systematic Trading
- Marsten Parker started trading in his mid-30s after an IPO payout and used his software background to build backtesting tools.
- He moved from discretionary to systematic trading and supported his family from trading income early on.
Equity Curve Can Hide Drawdowns
- Marsten's long-term equity curve looks smooth but masks large drawdowns and withdrawals.
- Time-weighted returns were used because he withdrew trading income to live on.
All Eggs In Mean Reversion Basket
- He switched from breakout trend strategies to mean reversion around 2013–2015 after seeing the short side fail.
- He concentrated capital into mean reversion, leveraged it, and then suffered a severe drawdown in 2015–2016.