Bert Mouler had been trading futures and equities since 2007.
He uses algorithmic trading and harnesses the power of machine learning to develop profitable trading methods.
You get hear Bert’s views on diversification in this episode, as well as his opinion on risk management. You’ll definitely pick up on his passion on furthering his education and his approach to goal setting.
What’s Covered in This Interview:
- Why Bert believes there’s no such thing as a bad book.
- Bert’s explanation on machine learning, including an example of how to use it with everyday technology.
- How Bert utilizes machine learning to find and make effective trading algorithms, right from the start through to live trading
- How machine learning is different from other common ways to develop algorithms, and how it can remove more bias from your models.
- Bert’s thoughts on if a strategy should make logical sense or the only evidence you need is a statistical edge.
- Bert’s opinion on diversification, and why he would rather allocate additional capital to new markets instead of markets he’s already in.
- Whether or not the effect of machines being more prominent in the trading realm is positive or negative.
- Why Bert is als learning and striving for continual progression. He also goes into his mindset that to really push yourself, you need to setting goals that are just out of reach.
Links and Resources:
- Coursera.org – This website features free online courese from top universities where Bert first started learning about Machine Learning.
- edX.org – Another free site Bert highly recommends for really good learning materia.
- Market Wizards – Bert recommends reading the timeless series by Jack Schwager (EP 027) because it helped him to find a style of trading.
- ProfuentCapital.com – Bert’s fund Profluent Capital.
- LinkedIn – Connect with Bert on LinkedIn.
- @BMouler – Follow Bert on Twitter.
