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Harold De Boer is a Managing Director, Member of Management Committee and Member of Board of Directors at Transtrend B.V. Growing up, Harold\\u2019s interest in statistics grew out of his work at his family\\u2019s dairy farm, and expanded into the world of trading and managed futures. Listen in to learn about Harold\\u2019s unique perspective on the industry, his marketing philosophy, and some of the most important lessons he\\u2019s learned during his successful career.

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In This Episode, You\\u2019ll Learn:

• How Harold got started with statistics at a young age
• Why Harold\\u2019s first job as a mathematician was intended to be only temporary
• How that first job transformed into Harold\\u2019s work at Transtrend
• When the Turtles project was discovered by Transtrend in its early years
• How being bought by a larger organization did not affect Transtrend\\u2019s operation
• Some of Harold\\u2019s biggest lessons he has learned
• How his time on a dairy farm informs Harold\\u2019s approach to trend following
• What investors underestimate and don\\u2019t understand about managed futures
• The only thing that actually drives the markets
• How market dynamics changed as a result of the transition from floor trading to electronic trading
• Why Harold believes that Transtrends program should be called \\u201cmedium-term\\u201d
• Why Harold believes positive alpha does not actually exist

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