TTU91: Keeping it Simple in Trend Following ft. Andreas Clenow of ACIES Asset Management

Our guest today is a successful trader, businessman, and author. He is known for his books Following The Trend and Stocks on the Move, and after an impressive career at Reuters finance he moved on to ACIES Asset Management in Switzerland.

In our conversation, we discuss trend following and the need to keep it simple, the mistakes that retail traders make, and how to start a new firm in this day and age.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

The many skill sets that Andreas has
How he wrote the books that he is known for
Why he has a large degree of flexibility with his firm and the capital they manage
How he grew up in a small town in Sweden…with lots of cows!
About the computer company that he started
How he left the corporate world
How he started at ACIES
What Andreas does when he is not working
The books he has written about systematic trading strategies
The value of simplicity
What Andreas thinks about trend following
The issues with doing trend following on stocks
How he got the freedom to write a book
What retail traders will get from his books
Why managing your own money is a bad trade
What he thinks about technical analysis and how to define it
What it takes to start a firm or trading business