On this episode my guests are Richard Dennis, creator of the Turtle program, Brian Proctor, managing director of EMC Capital Advices, and Jerry Parker, founder and president of Chesapeake Capital, for a rare conversation about the inner workings of the Turtle program, told for the first time by Richard himself.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• The good and bad of targeting volatility
• How Jerry and Brian used the rules they learned through the Turtle experience
• Why the Turtle program was just “another piece of risk” Rich took on his book
• Jerry’s experience during and after the program
• Brian’s two biggest takeaways from the Turtle program
• If proper trading can be a real business?
• What Rich would do differently in 2017
• The state of trend following today
• If being a good trader is enough to run a successful business?
• About other passions of the Turtles outside of trend following and trading
• Rich’s secret “career” in baseball
• If Rich has found any counter-trend strategies that work
• Jerry’s views on changing and adapting too much
• What academia thought of trend following 40 years ago

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