Is position sizing the most underrated decision in investing

Gaurik Shah, fund manager at Mirae Asset Investment Managers India, has a simple answer to why most derivatives traders lose money: position sizing. Not bad strategies, not bad timing. 

In Episode 3 of The Systematic Edge, Value Research founder Dhirendra Kumar gets into the mechanics of how systematic investors actually build and combine strategies, what inputs matter most in that process and how to tell a strategy that is broken from one that is simply waiting for its market phase. The conversation covers the Brexit trade, the 2024 election curveball and the one mental model systematic investors use that fundamental investors rarely consider.