Managed Futures, Futures Brokerage. Opinions are mine. The risk of trading can be substantial. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.
Jason Buck (@jasoncbuck), founder and CIO of @MutinyFunds, joins Infinite Loops to explore risk, religion, failure, resilience, the Cockroach Portfolio, and why being less certain may be the ultimate edge.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
4:32 Jason Buck’s Unusual Career Path
10:26 The Crash That Changed Everything
15:23 Does Alpha Really Exist?
16:52 Why Diversification Should Hurt
26:05 The Cockroach Portfolio
30:38 Firing Potential Clients
50:21 Right About the Crash, Wrong Trade
1:17:13 Walking Through Nihilism
2:02:12 Enjoy Your Burrito
The complete list of Alternative Investment Conferences in 2026 is here.
From managed futures and CTAs to allocator and institutional events, we’ve rounded up the conferences shaping the industry this year.
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"The error is treating the backtest as a map of the future rather than what it is, which is a study of the past." - Richard Brennan (@RichB118)
Listen to the full episode here:
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first came across @lukeburgis when interviewed by @EpsilonTheory a while back. Accessible and really helping in understanding motivation on an individual and communal level
"Wanting" is a really good book for understanding why social media is so powerful and damaging. @lukeburgis helped me understand Rene Girard. We don't so much copy other people's behavior, as copy their desires.
Excited to see our team at @rcmAlts release Investor’s Edge: A Whitepaper on the Power of Managed Futures Separately Managed Accounts.
Check it out here 👉https://t.co/v1rfTFTdCD
This might upset a few people, but it is something that happens all the time in this industry, especially in the tail risk space.
You often see institutions study past volatility events and then try to optimize their portfolios around those exact rare events. The problem is that rare events suffer from a sample size dilemma. Building a hedge around yesterday’s anomalies usually looks great in a backtest but proves ineffective when real markets shift.
A perfect example came after February 2018. Investors watched Volmageddon, saw the VIX spike into the 50s, and rushed to add low delta VIX calls to their hedging programs. On paper those trades looked incredible during crisis periods such as 2008. Then December 2018 arrived. Equities fell almost 20 percent, the VIX did not even reach 40, and many of those hedges failed to deliver.
This practice is still widespread today. Billions of dollars are allocated to hedges that are really just backward looking optimizations, creating structural feedback loops inside the volatility cycle until the market delivers something completely new.
LIVE: Corn & beans déjà vu + fertilizer reality.
Jeff & Ben + John Berglund (Prairie Land Ag) on global supply, tariffs, storage capacity & the prepay window—plus how to use basis/carries now.
Listen: https://t.co/DioFaP1Zff
#AgPodcast#Corn#Soybeans#Basis#Fertilizer
🎙️ New Hedged Edge is out.
🚜 Harvest updates from the field
💰 What could cost you more than storage
🐄 LRP insights from Lacy Schatz
Don’t wait — tune in now → https://t.co/abT7oUlU7f
#RCMAgServices#TheHedgedEdge#Harvest2025#AgTwitter
🚨 New #HedgedEdge Podcast! 🎙️
Episode 2: WASDE recap, storage crunch, & the big question — Quality or Quantity? Why the 🇺🇸 could risk losing 🇲🇽 as a key grain buyer.
Feat. guest David Muñoz (Bartlett Grain) 🌾
🎧 Listen: https://t.co/3OmqzmLpiS
#AgMarkets#Wheat#Soybeans