Ep. 330: Nigol Koulajian Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

My guest today is Nigol Koulajian, the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Quest Partners LLC. He has been designing and trading short-term and long-term technical systems for over 22 years.

The topic is Trend Following.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Trend following performance in 2014
• Volatility vs. skew
• Why having a good Sharpe Ratio is not the be-all-end-all
• The notion that alpha in the CTA world is not a result of skill
• Correlation between tail risk and the Sharpe Ratio
• Central bank action and the Swiss Franc
• Why trend following may not be as good in equity market corrections now as it has been in the past
• Why trend following is not about the super-complicated mathematics
• Getting outsiders to understand drawdowns
• Emotional intelligence vs. intellectual intelligence
• Media bias against trend following

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