Trend Following With Michael Covel

My guest today is Marsten Parker, a self-taught programmer and trader with 13 years of software industry experience and two decades plus in trading. For the past 20 years, Marsten excelled as an independent systematic securities trader, utilizing his expertise to develop innovative trading-related software. He was featured in Jack Schwager's Unknown Market Wizards.  The topic is systematic trading. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: Discretionary vs. systematic trading Different trading strategies Backtesting  The career and strategies of Jim Simons Trading software and tools Misconceptions about short-term trading Philosophy of trading Life choices and entrepreneurship Jump in! --- I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I’d li