044 — Nick Radge: Want Big Fish? You'll Need a Bigger Rod

About this episode

Nick Radge discusses his approach to trading and investing through robust, momentum-driven systems.

I think Nick Radge’s edge is actually an architecture: robust, simple, momentum-driven systems stitched together into a portfolio that survives, adapts, and compounds. Across nearly four decades, he’s traded through crashes, chop, and melt-ups; shifted from futures to equities for business reasons; and kept his build-process stubbornly logic-first and comfortingly boring—by design. The pro vs amateur divide, per Nick: pros ride the drawdowns and are present for the next outlier. They profit from human bias—fear, greed, crowding—by refusing to trust their own emotions and by outsourcing discretion to rules they can defend under pressure. Write the plan. Build the engines. Diversify the return streams. Rebuke complexity. Then let compounding do its weird, beautiful work. COURSES, COMMUNITY & MORE OVER ON THE WEBSITE: https://www.algoadvantage.io

People in this episode

Host: The Algorithmic Advantage

Guest: Nick Radge

Topics covered

• trading systems
• momentum investing
• portfolio management
• human bias
• compounding

Keywords

• trading
• momentum
• portfolio
• drawdowns
• human bias
• compounding
• investing

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