My guest today is Tadas Viskanta, the founder and editor of the Abnormal Returns blog and a private investor with 20-plus years of experience. Viskanta calls his blog a “forecast free investment blog”.
The topic is his book Abnormal Returns: Winning Strategies from the Frontlines of the Investment Blogosphere.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Investment philosophies and strategies to the challenges authors and bloggers face in the world today
- Disadvantage given to those who follow the constant data stream from the media
- Why Viskanta felt the need to write “Abnormal Returns”, and the strategy and style behind it
- The phrase “abnormal returns” and trying to measure returns over and above the risk taken
- Underperforming
- Preparing for abrupt change in the markets
- Viskanta’s move from value investing to a more systematic strategy–and Covel’s early experiences with value investing material
- Now that so many global barriers are easy to cross, why so many people have “home bias” and difficulty placing global investments
- Why people still look at the markets with rose colored lenses and so easily forget the bubbles of the past
- The behavior gap
- Why having a suboptimal strategy that you can follow in a systematic way is better than having no strategy at all
- The ramifications of instant feedback in the blogosphere
- Why you need a burning desire to be an author today
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