Welcome back to Top Traders Unplugged. On this episode Karsten and I discuss the systems and implementation that has led Amplitude to such remarkable success. As the interview comes to a close, we learn about Karsten’s philosophy of success and entrepreneurship. Despite being based outside the global financial hubs (i.e. New York, Chicago, London) Amplitude has experienced world class results. He provides a deep philosophy on achieving success in the CTA industry.-----50 YEARS OF TREND FOLLOWING BOOK AND BEHIND-THE-SCENES VIDEO FOR ACCREDITED INVESTORS -
Welcome back to Top Traders Unplugged. On this episode Karsten and I discuss the systems and implementation that has led Amplitude to such remarkable success. As the interview comes to a close, we learn about Karsten’s philosophy of success and entrepreneurship. Despite being based outside the global financial hubs (i.e. New York, Chicago, London) Amplitude has experienced world class results. He provides a deep philosophy on achieving success in the CTA industry.
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50 YEARS OF TREND FOLLOWING BOOK AND BEHIND-THE-SCENES VIDEO FOR ACCREDITED INVESTORS - CLICK HERE
In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
- Allocation of capital from a stop-loss point of view when doing short term trading
- Amplitude Capital’s systems for trade implementation
- Why high frequency trading is a very different strategy from that of Amplitude Capital’s
- Risk management strategies and the framework for embedding these principles into the Amplitude Capital operations
- Exploring the meaning of market correlation in short term CTA strategies
- Karsten Schroeder’s philosophy on drawdowns
- How managers can do a better job of explaining drawdowns
- The role of teamwork and processes in the research cycle
- The internal processes for validating implementation of strategies at Amplitude Captial
- Karsten Schroeder’s explanation for why Amplitude has experienced such success
- Do financial leaders need to live in financial hubs? How living outside of the financial hubs has impacted Amplitude Capital
- The difference between European CTA managers and US counterparts. Why has the market dominance shifted?
- The philosophy of failure that empowers Karsten Schroeder’s entrepreneurial journey
- What continues to inspire Karsten to keep running the business
- The question investors are not asking that they should be:
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