CTA
topic on 4 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes · said 4 times in 2 episodes since 2025
Founder's Journal 4 
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Loeb: Pod and Quant Risk Models Force Selling, Creating Fundamental Opportunities
“They have, ah, risk metrics which have forced selling on the way down, so they do the opposite of what, it might be rational for their business model, but it's not rational for long-term investors. So you have a lot of these things that will Continue to create…”
Lu: Limit Landing Pages to One Main CTA Per Scroll
“Kill all the distractions. Make sure that like every single scroll, there is only one main CTA. There's always like a priority, your main message, what the hell is it, the CTAs, and then it's like the proofs.”
BAM avoids long-term CTA strategies due to unappealing Sharpe ratios
“Or some things have sharp ratios that we're not excited about. So traditional long-term CTA type trading, we're not really that excited about.”
Fagan: Macro Alpha Is Generated Waiting for Themes, Not Catching Breakouts
“So much from our perspective of the value that's added in macro is Is actually done while you're waiting for the themes to play out. It's not capturing the big breakout of a theme. And frankly, if that's what you're trying to do, I don't think you pay someone …”
Alternative beta products and CTAs failed to mitigate risk in 2018
“In fact, last year I would say was the worst year for risk mitigation from the hedge fund side. The alternative beta products that people had jumped into did not perform the way most had hoped. The CTAs, which traditionally have helped during years of big fall…”