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AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. ComiXology Thousands of Digital Comics. DPReview Digital Photography. Markets behave the same as they did years ago. In other words, marltets are the same today because they always change. This is a philosophical underpinning of Trend Following.
Now the Euro has replaced the German mark. This was a huge, yet typical, change. If you are flesible, nlarltet changes, liltc changes in life, don’t have to impact you negatively. IIenry describes the benefits of understanding change: “But what won’t change? IIaving been through these drawdowns before, we know that they are unpleasant, but they do not signal that something is necessarily wrong with the future.
During these periods almost everyone asks the same question in these exact words: ‘IIave the markets changed? It is based on change. They trend. They flow. They surprise. No one can forecast a trend’s beginning or end until it becomes a matter of record, just like the weather. Ilowever, if your trading strategy is designed to adapt to change, you can talie advantage of the changes to make money: “If you have a valid basic philosophy, the fact that things change turns out to be a benefit.
At least you can survive. At the very least, you will survive over the long term. But if you don’t have a valid basic philosophy, you won’t be successful because change will eventually hill you. I lrnew I could not predict anything, and that is why we decided to follow trends, and that is why we’ve been so successful. We simply follow trends. IIe is The people who escel in anyJield are people who talking about a trading strategy that can be defined, quantified, realize that t11e moment is written down, and measured in terms of numbers.
Do you have one there to be seized-tltat of those? Does your broker have one? Does your mutual fund there ure opportunities at manager have one? Does your high-flying hedge fund have one? They are more aliw to the ntoment. Y Trend followers do not guess if they must buy or sell. They lmow Olorles Foulknerz3 what to do, because they have their “valid basic philosophy” set in a plan.
There are plenty of people who ignore Trend Following’s tremendous track record and argue that it is outdated or inferior or that it plain doesn’t work.
Patrick L. In order to prove this fact, he constructed trend-following models. Some were reversal-based, and others were not. Some were breakout-based on price with others on volatility and band-style breakouts. The average holding periods ranged from two weeks to one year.
The results gave almost identical performance characteristics in periods covering the late s, early s, and late s. Welton also addressed the misconception that the sources of return for Trend Following had changed, saying that there was no evidence to support that perception.
IIe pointed out that starting from first principles, it was a fact that the source of return for Trend Following resulted from sustained marltet price movements. Human reaction to such cvents, and the stream of informati describing them, takes time and runs its course unpredictably.
Welton went on to state that the resulting magnitude and rate of change of pfice could not be reliably forecast. This is the precise reason why Trend Following worlcs.? Here is an excerpt from a presentation he gave: “In February , on a tour of Germany sponsored by the Deutsche Terminborse, several advisors and pool operators were making a presentation to a group of German institutional investors.
Among them were two trend-based traders, Campbell 6r Co. During the question-and-answer period, one man stood and proclaimed: ‘But isn’t it true that Trend Following is dead? Morton 5. Here’s the nest one. It might, therefore, be a mistake to write yet another series of obituaries. But you make clear the On the other hand, I’ve seen year-after-pear, brilliant men buying entire sittiation. Trend followers generally seem to be oblivious to those who Riherd Fevnrnon question the validity of their strategy.
Trend Following Modus Operandi: Follow Price ‘ Trend followers generate phenomenal returns because their decisions are ultimately based on one piece of core information: price. In an increasingly uncertain and, these days, downright unfriendly world, it is extremely efficient and effective if our decision-making is based on this single, simple, reliable truth.
The constant barrage of fundamental data, such as price-earnings ratios, crop reports, and economic studies, plays into traders’ tendencies to make trading more complicated than it needs to be. Seeking to maintain the [hopter 1 Trend Following maximum degree of comfort, they follow this one familiar market’s movements faithfully. If they specialize in stoclts, they wouldn’t dream of branching out into currencies or futures.
How can a stock trader Bnow anything about currencies? Marltet prices are the objective data. You can compare and study prices and lneasure price movements, even if you know nothing about the marltets themselves. You can look at individual price histories and charts without lcnowing which market is which and trade them successfully.
Follow the Trend Don’t try to guess how far a trend will go. You can’t. Peter Borish, former second-in-command for Paul Tudor Jones, lays bare the only concern a trader must have: “Price malies news, not the other way around. A marltet is going to go where a marltet is going to g0. This is demonstrated by the mainstream press, who always emphasize all the wrong numbers: “At some point investing is an act of faith. If you can’t believe the numbers, annual reports, etc. It doesn’t matter whether you can or cannot believe the earnings statement.
All of these numbers can be doctored. The traded price can’t be fixed. It’s the only number to believe. IIowever, this simple fact does not diminish the confusion. N a n Sloan, by all accounts a fine finance reporter, searches for numbers to trust: “If some of the smartest people on Wall Street can’t trust the numbers you wonder who can trust the numbers. Balance sheets? Priceearnings ratios? You can’t ever trust those numbers. Political, econonzic and social regime changes trigger price adjustments in markets tltat don’t happen instantaneouslj?
A major problem, of course, is thrit markets don’t movefrom one state to another in a straight line: tltere are periods of countertrend sllock and volatility. So tllew are clef? For a midwest farm boy in the Fifties there was nothing in the world like baseball, and fro the time nine-year-old John W.
In the summer, he would listen in rapt attention to the great St. Louis Cardinals broadcaster IIarry Caray nigllt after night. I-Ienry attended community colleges and took numerous night courses, but never received his college degree. It wasn’t for lack of John W. I-Ie began speculating in corn, wheat, and soybeans. And it wasn’t long before he was trading for clients. In , he founded John W. Henry and Company, Ioc. Models we developed 20 years ago are still in place today.
Obviously, we trade a different mix of markets. We’ve also added new programs over the last 20 years, but relative to many of our peers, we have not made significant acljustments in our trading models.
In the s, everyone was interested in the money supply figures. In the s, the information clu jour was unemployment numbers. But people’s reactions to the marlrets are fairly stable. Uncertainty creates trends and that’s what we’re trying to exploit.
Even if you have better and faster dissemination of information, the one thing we haven’t really improved is people’s ability to process information.
These reactions are fairly stable and may not require major adjustments of models. And because change is constant, uncertainty is constant. From uncertainty, trends emerge. It is the exploitation of these trends that forms the basis of Trend Following profit. All of the cutting edge technology and news-gathering capabilities in the world are not going to help you trade trends.
That stuff is white noise. Henry and Co. Henry33 trade. Trying to be the smart person in the marltet is a losing game. IIe was direct and gracious. His tone was matter of fact. Ile wanted people to understand why John IV. IIenrp and Co. A few years ago, hIark gave a great analogy about the emotional ups and downs you must cope with to reach Trend Following success: “Loolting at the year as a mountain ride.
During the decline, there is anxiety because you often do not know how far you mill fall. Expectations are heightened Life is a school qf as you rise out of the valley because you cannot always see the top plvbnbility.
Each, through experience, education, and research, canle to an understanding of how mnrliets worli before they determined how to trade them. What each of them found, separately, was that marltet trends are more pervasive than people thinli, and could have bcen traded in the same way pears ago as they are today. Trends can last as long as a few months or years. Highly disciplined investnient process: Methodology is designed to keep discretionary decision-making to a minimum.
Risk manngement: Traders adhere to a strict formulaic risk management system that includes market exposure weightings, stop-loss provisions, and capital commitment guidelincs that attempt to preserve capital during trendless or volatile periods. GIobd diversificution: By participating in more than 70 markets and not focusing on one country or region, they have access to opportunities that less diversified firms may miss.
As we have seen, some traders dismiss Trend Following as simply predictive technical analysis. Henry is not some “technical indicator guru” trying to make predictions: “.
They respond to them. They are not prognosticators, ‘Some people call what we do technical analysis, but JlVII just identifies and follows trends. It’s lilre, if you are in the fashion world, you have to follow trends, or you’re yesterday’s news. In fact, they make it their business not to try to figure out why markets are going up or down or where they’re going to stop. Likewise, trend followers llave na choice but to react to trends, and lilte those who dictate fashion.
Trend followers would agree with Further than that, all human lmowledge is moonshine. The moment, the here and now, is the onl [hopler 2 Greot Trend Followers place that is truly measurable. He zeros in on the folly of fundamental trading by telling a story about a coffee trade he made in All fundamentals were bearish: The International Coffee Organization was unable to agree on a package to support prices, there was an oversupply of coffee, and the freeze season was over in Brazil.
The system was right. The market lmows more than I do. The most opportunities are in areas that are not exploited. I-Ienry points out that the f complicated, difficult elements of Trend Following are not about what yon must master, hut what you must eliminate from your marlcet view. On why the long-term approaches worlc best over decades: “There is an ovenvbelming desire to act in the face of adverse marlcet moves. Usually it is termed ‘avoiding volatility’ with the 1 fl4nssumption that volatility is bad.
The desire to have close stops to preserve open trade equity has tremendous costs over decades. Long-tern1 systems do not avoid volatility, they patiently sit through it. This reduces the occurrence of being forced out of a position that is in the middle of a long-term major move. They may have a little relevance for the next 25 years.
But there is no one in the year that you can convince to jettison the belief that years of performance will not cause stocks to grow to the sky. Right now people believe in 47 IVe don’t predict thejifichficre, but w e do know tllat the nextfive years will not look like tile l a s t f i e years. That just doesn’t happen.
Markets change. And our restllts over tlte nest tllree years will not replicate ttte last tllree. For example, nlonetar , pulicjl can serve as n simple case. Under these t rpcs of conrlitio! Mark 5. What will be new to them is an inevitable bear marliet. Hcnry is making one here. IIe is predicting that stocks can’t go up forever bccause eventually trends reverse themselves.
I-le is also pointing out that as a trend follower, 11e will be prepared whenever they do to take action. It Starts with Research John W. Henry has influenced many traders. One of his former employees presented observations in his new firm’s marketing materials: The time frame of the trading system is long-tern1 in nature, with the majority of profitable trades lasting longer than six weelts and some lasting for several months.
The system is neutral in rnarlcets until a signal to take a position is generated. It is not uncommon for markets to stay neutral for months at a time, waiting for prices to reach a level which warrant a long or short position.
The system incorporates predefined levels of initial trade risk. If a new trade turns quiclily unprofitable, the risk control parameters in place for every trade will force a liquidation when the preset stop-loss level is reached. In such situations, a trade can last for as little as one day. Much to our relief and maybe periotl.
Rendfollowing consists of buying high and your system to worli in any specific time period. They gave us Xerox burns on our hands, I think, photo copying grain prices and interest ratc data. Not only in the U. There were no short cuts. Years later, I was inspired to do my own price data research. My objective was not to use price data at that time in a trading system but to see instead how little lnarltets had changed.
One of the best places to research historical marliet data in newspapers and magazines from over years ago is the U. National Agricultural Library. Don’t be misled by the word “Agricultural. Lilie John W. IIenry’s firm, I discovered that marliets were indeed basically the same then as now. Henry on the Record John JV. This was only months after the Barings Bank debacle.
This small excerpt from the post-dinner QMshows selling low. For 19 JIearS w e ltave consistently bought Rig11anrl sold low. But trends are an integral, underlying reality in lqb. I heard it, in fact, when I started my career 14 years ago. They were worrying, “Is there too much money going into Trend Following? My feeling is that markets are always changing. It is the same with using good, sound business principles-the changing world is not going to materially hurt you if your principles are designed to adapt.
But that’s to be expected and it’s good. Femnle Voice: John, you’re noted for your discipline. How did you create that, and how do you maintain that? If you really believe in your strategy, that brings about discipline. It really doesn’t talte much discipline, if you have a tremendous confidence in what you’re doing.
Male Voice: I’d like to lcnow if your systems are completely blaclc box. Our philosophy is that there is an inherent return in Trend Following. I lcnow CTAs that tve been around a lot longer than I have, who have been trading trends: Bill Dunn, Millburn, and others, who have done rather well over the last 20 to 30 years. I don’t think it’s luclc year after year after year. They don’t lave secret strategies or inside information.
Their black bos, if there ever was one, is price action. I remember looking around at all the John W. Henry as a personality-a rock star-instead of figuring out what he does to make money. IIe is exceptional. But shouldn’t the goal be to try and find similar success in whatever walk of life you pursue rather than only applaud John W. That approach-a mechanical and mathematical system-lias not really chnnged at all. Yet the system continues to be successful today, even though there has been virtually no change to it over the last 18 years.
Henry and numerous other trend followers as well. And how does this timeless system work? IIete is an example of a winning chart for Ilenry Chart 2. You can see it talces tinle for these things and if you’re patient, you can have huge profits, especially if you don’t set a profit objective. I-Ieny did well in the Japanese yen Chart 2.
Some so-called take the Fed’s or Alan Greenspan’s words and act on them even if there is no real way to know mhat any of it even means. Does it make logical sense to worry about what the Fed is going to do if there is no clear way to decipher their actions to begin with?
The Fed, to the best of our knowledge, has never offered any statement you could rely on that would dictate, “Buy share of hISFT today. They are ready for a change in price at all times. A moving market has no impact if your trading style has been developed from the ground up to respond to change: q5′.
J “I linow that when the Fed first raises interest rates after months of lowering them, you do not see them the nest day lowering interest rates. And they don’t raise rates and then a few days later or a few weeks later lower them.
They raise, raise, raise, raise. There are trends that tend to exist, whether they are capital flows or interest rates. That is because trading is generally esplained in ways that malte it sound harder than it needs to be. IIenry prepares for Fed actions, wars, rumors of war, elections, scandals, embargoes, treaties, droughts, floods, and marltet crashes–before they happen.
IIenry linows our minds can create anxiety by conjuring up tcmfying futurc marltet scenarios, so he relics on his systcm to lieep him focused in the present. Henry’s first managed fund was staked with S16, in Henry understands change. This understanding gives him a distinct advantage. While you may perceive Ed Seyltota’s manner as extremely direct, you will agree Seyltota is unique in the way he thinks.
One profound, and now famous, statement of his was, “[E]veryhody gets what they want out of the marltet. Foitune tellers lioe in the future. Ed Seykoto’a Although almost completely unltnown to both traders and laymen alike, Ed Seykota’s achievements rank him as one of tlie best trend followers and traders of our time.
I first met Ed Seyltota at a small beachside cafe. I had received an invitation from Seyliota to get together to discuss the outreach possibilities of the Internet.
During our first mecting, he aslcecl me what I thought Richard Dennis was loolcing for when he hired his student traders. My reply mas to say I thought Dennis was looliing for students who could tliinli in terms of odds.
Seyltota’s response was to aslt me if my reply was my own thinking or something I was told by someone else. This was my first indoctrination to Seyliota’s “direct nature. To each of these he replied: I lilte gold-it’s shiny, pretty-makes nice jewelry or I have no idea where the Canadian dollar is headed or the trend is up when price is moving up, etc.
IIis replies were simple, straight fonvard answers to the questions aslted of him. Many felt they had wasted their time and money listening to Seyltota. Seykota’s message couldn’t be clearer to anyone who cared to listen. The answers were found in the very cluestions each person asked. Don’t ask: how do you ltnow the trend is moving up? Not: what do you think of gold? Seyliota’s answers effectively placed everyone in front of a huge mirror, reflecting their trading self back at them.
If you don’t even ltnow the question to aslt about trading, much less the answers, get out of the husiness and spend your life doing something you enjoy. Performance Second t o None What are Seyltota’s performance numbers?
Henry and Bill Dunn. He literally has been a one-man shop his entire career. There is no fancy office or other employees. Ife does not hold himself out as a public money manager and he is extremely selective of his clients. I-Ie doesn’t really care whether people have money that they want him to trade or not. I’ve had the chance to review his monthly performance data for the decade of the s.
The month-bymonth numbers are eye popping. Seykota takes big risks, and he gets big rewards. About Ed Seykota Edward Seyltota was horn in He earned his Bachelor of Science from MIT in and by had embarlted on the trading career he pursues to this day-investing for his own 55 Pyramiding instructions uppear rlollur bills. Ed was self-taught, but influenced in his career by Amos Ilostetter and Richard Donchian. IIe conceived and developed the first commercial computerized trading system for client money in the futures marliets.
Thorp” For the past few years, Scykota has worked from an office in his house on Lake Tahoe. He also mentors traders through his Web site and his Trading Tribe, a widespread community of like-minded traders. Seyliota’s Trading Tribe is discussed further in Chapter 6.
The Seykota “Secret” Ed Seykota’s style is direct. Ile enjoys debunking market ignorance with terse, Zen-lilie statements that force the listener to look inward: “The biggest secret about success is that there isn’t any big secret about it, or if there is, then it’s a secret from me, too. The idea of searching for some secret for trading success misses the point.
IIe is a fearless trader and does not suffer fools glitdly. Yet when hc remembers his first trade, we see how early he uncovered his passion for what he does: “The first trade I remember, I mas about five years old in Portland, OR.
My father gave me a gold-colored medallion, a sales promotion trinket. I traded it to a neighbor kid for five magniking lenses. I felt as though I had participated in a rite of passage. Later, when I was 13, my father showed me how to buy stocks. IIe explained that I should buy when the price brolie out of the top of – chapter 2 Great Trend Followers 57 a box and to sell when it broke out of the bottom. And that’s how I got started. This too seemed impossible to me.
So I wrote computer programs on punch cards in those days to test the theories. Amnaingly, his [Donchian] theories tested true. To this day, I’m not sure I understand why or whether I really need to.
From the beginning, he worked for incentive fees alone. If he made money for his clients, he got paid. If he did not rnalie money, he did not get vaid. He shares in the profits only if money is made for the client account. Does your broker, mutual fund manager, or hcdge fund work like that?
One of his mentors was Amos Hostetter. Amos Hostetter made phenomenal amounts of money trading. If he lost 25 percent of that stake, he’d get out. His “get out of the trap” strategies influenced many top traders of the last 30 years. Interestingly, in the mids, long after the majority of the trend followers had moved on to their own firms, I visited Commodities Corporation’s offices.
Midway through our tour, we bumped into a stressed-out energy trader. After a few minutes of conversation, he and I began to chat about his trading style, which was based on fundamentals. Throughout our entire conversation, he was glued to the monitor. When I brought up Trend Following, he assured me that it did not work.
I was surprised that a trader working for a famous firm, known for training brilliant trend followers, was completely blinded to even the possibility that Trend Following worked. Unlike other scientists, who study the world by breaking it up into smaller and smaller pieces, system dynamicists look at things as a whole. The central concept to system dynamics is understanding how all the objects in a system interact with one another. The objects and people in a system interact througll “feedback” loops, where a change in one variable affects other variables over time, which in turn affects the original variable, and so on.
An example of this is money in a bank account. Money in the bank earns interest, which increases the size of the account. Now that the account is larger, it earns even more interest, which adds more money to the account. This goes on and on.
I n a t system dynamics attempts to do is understand the basic structure of a system, and thus understand the behavior it can produce. Many of these systems and problems which are analyzed can be built as models on a computer. System dynamics takes advantage of the fact that a computer model can be of much greater complexity and carry out more simultaneous calculatious than can the mental model of the human mind.
Seykota gives visitors ample amounts of wisdom and whimsy in answers to the emails he receives. Accept them “1Iere’s the essence of risk management: Risk no more than you can afford to lose, and also risk enough so that a win is meaningful.
If there is no such amount, don’t play. This is reviewed in Chapter Traders who predict the future, dwell upon a non-existent place, and to the extent they also park their ability to act out there, they can miss opportunities to act in the now.
It is much better to react to the fact of market movements in present time than a future time that doesn’t exist. No way around it. Your problem is not in the math. There is no math to get yon out of having to experience uncertainty. You have to live with and feel the uncertainty.
They sound like broken records in their desire to see trend following debunked. Leave your personal or fundamental opinions at the door. Do you want to be right or make money?
The losers profiled in Chapter 4 tried to convince cveryone that they were right and lost big time. There’s nothing else in thc magazine that works very well, but the covers are pretty good. This is not an indictment of the magazine people, it’s just that at the end of a big move there is a communal psychological abreaction which shows up on the covers of magazines. If one loolw: at Ed Seykota’s model account record, and compares it with anyone else, historical or contemporaw, he is the best trader in history, period.
Isn’t he? Who else comes close? I don’t Imow of anyone. There are numerous examples of managers with a few years of meteoric returns who subsecluently blow up.
The houschold names, Buffet and Soros, are less than half of Ed’s return each year. One might apply filters such as Sharpe ratios, AUb1, etc. Russell Capital is a student of Ed Seykota’s. Freeing yourself from the need to understand “why” is as useful when dealing with family, friends and foes as it is when entering or exiting a trade. It also has the added benefit of making you a much better trader.
Ed spends a lot of time there. IIe listens, he feels, he speaks with clarity. He is a ,,,aster of his craft. Before 1vorlting mith Ed, I spent years learning, and earning various designations. Miles Davis was once aslied what went through his mind when hc listened to his own music. He is the smartest trader I have ever seen.
I don’t think anybody comes close. IIe has the greatest insights into how markets work and how people operate. It’s almost scary being in his presence. It was tough surviving worliing lvith him because of the mental gymnastics involrml.
If you have :I personality wealiness, lie finds it-fast. But it’s a positive thing because successful traders must understand themselves and their psychological wealtnesses. A guy lilie Ed Seyliota is nlagic. One of the more amazing things I obsenred about Ed is that he has gifts in so many areas, trading being just one of them. It was an excellent production. He also recorded an album several years before the video. IIe is a very talented musician. My favorite song was “Bull Marliet” which he used to play for me on his acoustic guitar.
One day we toolc a ‘field trip’ to visit Ed’s state legislator to discuss Charter Sc11ool legislation and the impact on Ed’s children and the students of Nevada. Not long after I left, Ed ran for the local school board.
Ed Seylcota will never be defined solely by trading. This is a man who relishes the here and now, where he can confront real problems and provide real solutions. He chooses to live his trading, not admire it. Ile has passion. Some people seem to like to lose, so they win by losing money. Do an Internet search and you’ll find alnlost no information about their trading.
Ibubegor to have a longer P””Pcc’ivcalldcol? The data Chart 2. In the s, Keith Campbell took a job in California where he could both slii and surf. In an interview, Campbell recalls that, ” Conrad got me into trading as a customer. But he was always moaning he didn’t have enough money to trade. Conrad I-elocated to Lake Tahoe, Nevada on a gutsy ancillaiy to tlte n1at11ematic.
O ‘ However, it is unfair to refer to Campbell and Co. Jim Little of Campbell and Co. Henry, trading diverse marlcets doesn’t translate into complicated trading strategies. Campbell also believes in keeping it simple: “I’m very uncomfortable with black box trading where I’m dealing with algorithms I don’t understand. This loss was recovered in the three-month period ending in December Clients should be prepared to endure similar or worse periods in the future.
The inability or unwillingness to do so will probably result in serious loss, without the opportunity for subsequent recovely. Examine the Dunn drawdown history Chart 3. Source: Dunn Copihl Manogemen! First, place a piece of paper over the chart and then very slowly move the paper to the right and uncover the chart.
Imagine that you have made a very large investment in the fund. IIow do you feel as you move the page? IIow long can you remain undenvater? IIow deep can you dive? Do you pull out the calculator and figure out what you could have earned a t the bank? Do you figure out that you lost enough to buy a vacation, car, house, castle or perhaps solve the hunger crisis in a small country?
I b u are now in a 50 percent drawdown. I-Iow much do you have to make just to get back to break-even Chart 3. Notice that as your drawdown increases Chart 3. Trcnd followers live with this chart day in and day out. Their strategy is designed with these numbers in mind. Bill Dunn21 Percent gnin to recover Ruin Unfortunately, the investment community uses drawdown numbers to paint an incomplete and unfair picture of Trend Following.
Under the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s mandatory disclosure regime, managed futures advisors are obliged to disclose as part of their capsule performance record their ‘worst peali-to-valley drawdown. It represents the amount by which you are less well off than you were; or, put differently, it measures the magnitude of the loss an investor could have incurred by investing with the manager in the past. Managers are obliged to wear their worst historical drawdown lilce a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives.
For example, here is John IV. IIenry’s drawdown and recovery in action Chart 3. But there is no getting around it: You can’t eliminate ‘ catastrophic risli, mucb less drawdowns, from your trading.
But you can manage drawdowns with Trend Following techniques. Interestingly, there is another perspective on dramdowns that few people consider. Smart clients of Bill Dunn mill look at the perfornlance chart of Dunn Capital Management and buy in when the fund is experiencing a drawdown. This is commonly referred to as equity curve trading. But, investors seem to not add money when, to traders, it seems to be most logical to do so.
You n1n. I believe the answer to that question lies in the investing psychology of buying a drawdown. This is a strong indication of firm with n11no. Julius A. IIenry and Co, in Learning to Love Non-Correlation, defines correlation as “a statistical term giving the strength of linear relationship between two random variables.
It is the historical tendency of one thing to move in tandem with another. Look at the correlation chart Chart 3. Then ask why they have the same winning month, then the same two losing months, and then thc same three winning months in a row.
The relationship is there because these trend followers can only respond to what the J market offers. The market offers trends to everyone equally. They’re all looking at the same market aiming for the same target of opportunity.
Does this chart Chart 3. CHART 3. We’ve all evolved and developed systems that are very different from those we were taught, and that indcpendcnt evolution suggests that the dissimilnrities to trading between turtles are always increasing.
The relationship is solid. The data Chart 3. JPD Ertterpriscs Inc. Market Reseorcll 1 [hopler 3 Psrformonce Dolo Of course, there is more to the story than just correlation. While correlations show the Turtles still trade in similar ways, their returns can also differ because of their individual leverage choices.
Some traders use a lot of leverage while others, like Jerry Parker, use less in order to increase the comfort level of some institutional investors. Parker explains, “The b i g e r the trade, the greater the returns and the greater the drawdowns. It’s a double-edged sword. Larry Harris, the Chair in Finance at the Marshall School of Business at University of Southern California and the current Chief Economist of The Securities and Exchange Commission, gets to the crux of the matter: “Trading is a zero-sum game when gains and losses are measured relative to the market average.
In a zero-sum game, someone can win only if somebody else loses. In speaking with Harris he told us he was amazed at how many people came from the TurtleTrader. Hunter 5. Thompson In brief, Ilarris examines what factors determine who wins and who loses when trading. He does this by categorizing traders by type and then evaluating their trading styles to determine whether the styles lead to profits or losses. IIarris was direct in his analysis: “Winning traders can only profit to the extent that other traders are willing to lose.
The most important extenlal benefits are expected returns from holding rislry securities that represent deferred consumption. Hedging and gambling provide other external benefits. Markets would not exist without utilitarian traders.
Their trading losses fund the winning traders who make prices efficient and provide Iiquidity. They cannot live with tlie idea that life is unfair and they can’t have it both ways with everyone winning. Wrat separates winners from losers?
If you have no edge,? Recognizing your edge is a prerequisite to predicting whether trading will be profitable. In he was called ‘the mall who broke the pound’ for placing billion in hets against the British pound tllat netted 11i1n at least SI billion in profit.
When you bet and you win, that’s good for you, it’s bad for those against whom you 11nve bet. There are always losers in this kind of a game.
George Soros: No. See, it’s not a zero-sum game. It’s very important to realize. Ted Koppel: IVell, it’s not zero-sum in terms of investors. It was not, let’s say, good for the British treasury because they were on the other side of the trade.
It’s not-your gain is not necessarily somebody else’s loss. George Soros: Not necessarily because that would have been an unintended consequence of my action.
And it’s not my job as a participant to calculate the consequences. This is what a market is. That’s the nature of a marlcet. So I’m a participant in the market. Soros opens his own personal can of worms here with his view on zero-sum. The poster argues: “Cosmetically, Icoppel wipes the floor with Soros.
I-Ie’s able to portray Soros as a person who destroys lives and economies without a second thought, as well as simplify, beyond belief, something that should not be simplified. You may disagree with Soros’ ever-changing political ideology, but you can’t question his morality for particiyation in the market. Do you have a plan designed to generate profits from the market?
Of course you do, just like Soros. Who could be so wealthy or so ignorant that they realized what a billion each year doesn’t matter? What’s more, why do they keep playing at a losing game? The answer is that the losers are all of us.
And, while neither rich nor stupid, we’ve been given no choice but to continue to lose. Every time we, on behalf of our businesses or ourselves, change one currency into another, w lose transaction costs. Every time we hedge a payment from or to a foreign land, the cost of that hedge represents a loss of wealth. Indeed, as their currencies are devalued, workers’ savings and future payments, such as their pensions, denominated in those currencies lose purchasing power.
Interest rates increase. Commercial relationships predicated upon lower interest rates unravel, and businesses go out of business. Through no fault of their own, worlring people lose their jobs in addition to their savings. While not a secret, it is astonishing to learn how sanguine the beneficiaries have become of their advantage over the rest of us. For example, famed financier George Soros in his recent The Crisis of Global Capitalism plainly divulges: ‘The Bank of England was on the other side of my transactions and I was talting money out of the poclrets of British taxpayers.
I-Ie loses; his union loses; everyone apparently loses in the zero-sum game. Of course there are winners and he ltnows that. The zerosum game is, indeed, a wealth transfer. The winners profit from the losers. Parlrs correctly describes the nature of the zero-sum game but then positions the game in terms of morality.
Life is not fair. If you don’t lilte being a loser in the zero-sum game, perhaps it is time to consider how the winners trend followers play the game. The market is a zero-sum game. Trying to fathom Soros’ reasons for denying this would be pure speculation on our part.
Soros is not always a zero-sum winner either. Soros was on the losing side of the! Millman42 suffered a 20 percent decline this year and, at I am anxious to reduce my marlcet esposure and be more conservative.
Nor has the zero-sum game changed. IIowever, something may hitve cingecI within George Soros. You can malie losing decisions or winning decisions. It’s your choice. Their decisions to be in o r out of tlie marliet were set in motion long before the unexpected cvent of September l l t h happened. The story of who lost has becn told repeatedly over the years; however, since trading is a zero-sum game, we thought it would be educational to explore who the winners were.
LTCM is a classic saga of the zero-sum game played out on a grand scale with trend followers as the winners. Approximately 55 banlrs gave LTCh. That deal was “only one leg of an even more complex convergence bet, which included hedged positions in Spanish peseta and Italian lira bonds.
The good thing about CTAs is their strategies are usually straightfonvard, not something that only a few people in the world can understand. We’re Trend Following and systems-based, something you can easily describe to a client. People who aren’t willing to show clients their positions are in trouble. The ultimate error is to put a ton of motley with geniuses who ‘never lose money. If a random bolt of lightning hits you whcn you’re standing in the middle of the field, that feels like a random event.
When lightning struck LTCM, trend follomers were assessing the same marltets-playing the zero-sum game at the same time.
LTCM had the beautiful formulas; they were just not for the real world. Eugene Fama, Schnles’ thesis advisor, bad long held deep reservations about his student’s options pricing model: “If the population of price changes is strictly normal [distribution], on the average for any stock. Tlzis w a s not a direct result rjf the decline in the U. Not for LVilliam Dunn, though. Hisfirm, Dunn Capital Managenlent, with million under management, had one of its best nrns in years. K sofar this yeal; ultd In fact such observations seem to occur about once every three to four years.
Meriwether wrote: “As you are all too aware, events surrounding the collapse of Russia caused large and dramatically increasing volatility in global marltets throughout August. Losses of this magnitude are a shoclc to us as they surely are to you, especially in light of the historical volatility of the fi1nd.
Liechtenstein Global Ti-ust lost million. Credit Suisse lost million. UBS lost S million. Sandy IVeiIl lost million. Dresdner lost S million. Who Won? As dramatic as the LTCM blowout story is the real lessons we can learn are from the winners. It mas a very sad time all the way through. It’s very hard to put your head back where you were three months beforc that and say it looked like a very gloomy business without much of a future and all of a sudden we’re the place it’s all at. Their “way” is set in motion long hefore the event ever happens.
Tern, Parliel; Iceit11 Campbell, and blan exceeded S1 billion in profit. But one day I came home and the leaues were iii little piles. Central banks can decide to clefault o n govcntmcntbacked securities. Henry Finmdals and Metals July
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