SI182: Trend Following in Times of Crises ft. Rob Carver

Today Rob Carver joins me to discuss how the Trend Following world is reacting to the aweful situation in Ukraine and how it affects markets and volatility, discussing the moral aspects of trend following in times of crises and we take lots of questions from our community regarding how to handle parabolic market moves, if trend following is over-crowded, who we believe is the next David Harding, how to allocate to different speeds of Momentum/Trend Following as well as thoughts on rebalancing assets and portfolios and much more. ----- EXCEPTIONAL RESOURCE: Find Out How to Build a Safer & Better Performing Portfolio using this FREE NEW Portfolio Builder Tool In this episode, we discuss:How the aweful situation in Ukraine affects trend following and volatilityRebalancing strategies within your portfolioThe advantage of systematizing your tradingWhen I sat down with the founds of AHL at Abbey Road Studios ----- Follow Niels on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube or via the TTU website. IT’s TRUE ? – most CIO’s read 50+ books each year – get your FREE copy of the Ultimate Guide to the Best Investment Books ever written here. And you can get a free copy of my latest book “The Many Flavors of Trend Following” here. Learn more about the Trend Barometer here. Send your questions to info@toptradersunplugged.com And please share this episode with a like-minded friend and leave an honest Rating & Review on iTunes or Spotify so more people can discover the podcast. Follow Rob on Twitter. Episode TimeStamps: 00:00 - Intro 02:15 - Update on markets 05:50 - What has caught attention and review on performance 27:08 - Status on Rob’s book 29:27 - Q1, Harry: What might next frontier be that seems silly today, but common sense later? Who's the next David Harding? 34:04 - Q2, Ravi: What are the implications to the markets and the wider global economy? 39:00 - Q3, Zoran: How do you navigate through such events (war in Ukraine) as a systematic investor? 46:00 - Q4, Richard: If trend following ever became overcrowded, could you identify it and would you take any action? 51:55 - Q5, Y:...