Investor since 1993. Investment advisor since 2006. The main adage is paradoxical: take risk, but do it cautiously. Part of that caution is that systems can provide for periods when there is no market position.
Born in 1959, started investing for own account in 1993, financial advisor since 2006 through own advisory service. Main principle: provide good service to clients and work systematically. Hence the name "Van Megen Systematic Trading." The main adage is paradoxical: take risk, but do it cautiously. Part of that caution is that the systems can provide for periods when there is no market position.
Another important principle has always been: stay independent.
Therefore, offers from financial institutions have never been accepted. Van Megen Systematic Trading's systems and advice are only available to and directed at its clients. Incidentally, those clients may well include banks and pension funds (for example), but the point is that they cannot buy influence on the investment policy and the investment systems, nor will large parties be able to influence the systematics. Van Megen Systematic Trading is and will remain independent.
Before it came to systems such as RVM Strategy and RVM Retirement, a great deal of research was done and tested. Among other things, the work of Thomas DeMark was influential, but also observations regarding Japanese candlesticks, manuals by Joe Ross, as well as the principles of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger.
The biggest example for me, however, has always been Renaissance Technologies, because I too have since found that a quantitative and statistical approach to investing produces the most stable returns.
The algorithms devised by mathematician Jim Simons and his associates for Renaissance have always remained secret, and so they should. Even the algorithm underlying the momentum strategies of RVM Strategy and RVM Retirement is not shared with anyone; it is a proprietary invention.
