On this episode I continue my conversation with Marty Bergin, the owner and President of DUNN Capital Management, Grant Jaffarian, Portfolio Manager of the Advanced Trend program at Crabel Capital Management, and Mike Boss, who is a Director within the Capital Introductions Team at Societe General, where we cover all things trend following and some of the differences to short-term trading.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• How to use your management and incentive fees to compete
• Grants’s competitive strategy for his flat-fee product
• Why a robust risk management system is extremely important
• Who is winning the battle between the low-cost products and the traditional trend following offerings
• If the increased number of investors using trend following is impacting returns?
• How rising interest rates will affect long- and short-term trend followers
• The guest’s biggest takeaways from 2016
• If machine learning is already being used by trend following firms?

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