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    1. macrocephalopod‏ @macrocephalopod 18 Nov 2021

      macrocephalopod Retweeted Alex Good

      I’ve mostly run big quant portfolios for institutions so a lot of what I say is not relevant for independent traders (in particular risk target often dictated by the mandate, decision whether to add/withdraw at hwm or in a drawdown is not mine etc) but I can try.https://twitter.com/goodalexander/status/1461381646683361294 …

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      Alex Good @goodalexander
      Replying to @ecommerceshares
      Would be fun to see @macrocephalopod @bennpeifert @dampedspring @moreproteinbars @KrisAbdelmessih @VitruviusCurve or @cloudy_cl @NotQuiteMidlife talk about how they think about sizing / overall portfolio risk, being above or below high water mark, factors or other such topics
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    2. macrocephalopod‏ @macrocephalopod 18 Nov 2021

      A lot depends on your time horizon. With long hold periods stuff like correlations, market neutrality, factor/sensitivity exposures matters a lot. This applies to long/short equity books, options portfolios, swaps books … anything where you hold for weeks/months.

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    3. macrocephalopod‏ @macrocephalopod 18 Nov 2021

      For fast trading (hold < 1 day) that stuff matters less because you get diversification from the number of bets through time, rather than diversification from making cross-sectionally independent bets.

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    4. macrocephalopod‏ @macrocephalopod 18 Nov 2021

      With very fast strategies where you are in/out multiple times per day you might literally treat every market as independent, perhaps keeping an eye on overall delta and hedging it with something cheap.

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    5. macrocephalopod‏ @macrocephalopod 18 Nov 2021

      I try not to make any of my decisions contingent on whether I am in drawdown or at hwm. I don’t believe that’s informative for how the strat will perform in the future. The one exception is that if you lose/make a lot of money quickly it *may* be a sign that one of your

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      macrocephalopod‏ @macrocephalopod 18 Nov 2021

      assumptions is wrong and you should revisit everything, and it *may* be prudent to cut risk while you do that.

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        2. macrocephalopod‏ @macrocephalopod 18 Nov 2021

          On trade sizing I think sizes should be proportional to confidence and inversely proportional to risk. That assumes you can meaningfully distinguish confidence levels! If not then equal weight or risk-parity weight is better than overthinking it.

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        3. macrocephalopod‏ @macrocephalopod 18 Nov 2021

          On overall risk levels, most often I am managing to a mandate so I don’t think about it often. Sorry nothing to add here!

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        4. macrocephalopod‏ @macrocephalopod 18 Nov 2021

          The type of strategy I all working on most often is a big bucket of positions, typically 100s-1000s. Every position has an associated alpha and exposures to risks that I want to control. The alphas and the exposures change day by day or even minute by minute. Typically over time

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        5. macrocephalopod‏ @macrocephalopod 18 Nov 2021

          the alpha of the portfolio decays and the risk exposures creep up, and the job of the portfolio manager is to keep making trades that increase the alpha, decrease the unwanted risk exposures, and don’t cost too much. Simple really.

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