On today’s show I am talking to Tushar Chande, Co-Founder and Head of Research at Rho Asset Management. Tushar is also the author of a number of books on the topic of how to design rule based trading systems as well as having been actively trading these systems for more than 20 years.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

Why the random nature of the markets attracted Tushar to develop systems for trading these markets
Background information on Rho Asset Management and it’s philosophy
How Tushar utilizes behaviors of discretionary traders to make estimates of conviction about their individual trades
How Rho has designed it’s Altius Program to offer meaningful protection when equity markets go down
What to be aware of when exploring an Asset Manager’s performance over a 20 year period
Offense/Defense Ratio, What it means and How to use it to Measure the quality of systems design
How Rho’s models have been designed in order to achieve the overall objective of the Program
What Trend Following Indicators are used for and why
Exploring the volatility of the equity curve
The input data needed to run the Altius Program, the time it takes and when they run the model

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Resources & Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Beyond Technical Analysis by Dr. Tushar Chande

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