Goldman Sachs's Nick Baltas joins us today, to help us uncover if it is meaningful to use factor regression to evaluate managed futures. We also weigh in on couple of articles, relating to the outlook for trend following and the state of the industry, before turning our attention to some hard core research into how to construct the optimal trend following portfolio and why it is important to be conscious of which battles you pick. Lastly, we discuss the challenge of timing an investment into trend following, the pros and cons of trading alternative markets and more.

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Episode TimeStamps:

00:23 - What has caught our interest recently?

03:04 - The Nikkei index finally comes out it its 35 year drawdown

05:35 - Industry performance update

07:37 - Q1, Oliver: Does it makes sense to use factor regression to evaluate managed futures?

14:24 - The state of the industry

18:17 - Is trend following flopping?

27:34 - Building optimal trend following portfolios

36:15 - Pick your battles

49:10 - Is there a way to time trend following?

53:34 - Is it actually an advantage to trade alternative markets?

01:04:44 - Thanks for listening

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