Robbie Burns interview - we want your questions!
Robbie Burns - the Naked Trader - is a man that tends to avoid doing interviews. But with lots of flattery, arm-twisting and the promise of lunch at his favourite restaurant, I’ll be talking to him tomorrow, Wednesday, 20 January.
Robbie occupies a rare space in investing. His easy-going approach has won him a huge number of followers, and his growth-oriented investment style has given him consistently strong results. His popularity stems from an insistence on keeping things simple and his ability to explain his methods in a way that anyone can understand. His book, The Naked Trader - How anyone can make money trading shares, comes highly recommended.
If there’s a question that you’d like me to put to Robbie, let me know in the comments below. I can’t make any promises, but I’ll do my best. And, as normal with rock star interviews of this type, last minute postponements can happen (usually after I’ve set off!).
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20 comments
Very much looking forward to that Ed.
Did the great man turn up Ben ?
Ben had a great time with Robbie at the River Cafe in London - there's going to be an epic post published next week.
It was Stockopedia's replication of the Robbie's strategy that enabled me to change ingesting approach with considerable success, so if possible please extend my thanks to Robbie.
I'd like to ask ... How significant is the use of Level 2 data in his approach and how does it improve buy/sell decisions?
Thanks
Phil
Since the time he started trading to the present day what one rule in his investing tool box would he say has contributed the most to his investing success.
Does he ever put shorts on?
He does spread shorts, if you look at his blog you will see.
Good questions from comments 11 and 12
Ben,
The Naked Trader-esque Screen was a adaption of the winning strategies in 3rd Ed of his Naked Trader book and has done very well. Does he still use similar rules now and if he were to change one strategy, or rule what would that be now?
Cheers, Ian
I would be interested to know if he agrees with the "rules" that Stockopedia apply to the Naked Trader-esque guru screen.
Would he make any alterations or additions to the existing rules?
I understand running the winners and cutting the losers is recommended from him, but I notice that he has a very good ratio of winners compared to losers, would be good to understand how he gets those sort of results.
Thanks
Sean
Herbie, I too observed that.......lot of time he is doing against his talk......I think his experience works in the market......Poundland is recent example...
Yes a few lately, Amino Technologies (LON:AMO), Vislink (LON:VLK) and Flowgroup (LON:FLOW).
I'm just reading his book, 2nd edition, one thing I would like to ask is he says not to do bottom fishing but it seems to me that he does do that himself recently. Also has his trading strategy changed at all in the last 10 years and if so how?
If we observe his website..we can see lot of shares in portfolio..It is really surprising me......how he tracking all these shares? Any stop loss method following stick on his winners ??Yes I read his books......but not getting clear picture of his stretegy...
Where does he buy his clothes?!
Lucky you Ben. A good question in the moment is how are his equity buying habits changing right now?
I believe that Robbie uses ETF to cover positions, where he does not want to sell, so for instance I suspect he might have been using SUK2 for the last few weeks. The question, what are the signs he looks for both to get into and out of these positions.
That's awesome that your getting the chance to interview the great Naked Trader. My question if possible is about Stop Losses once his positions have gained profits of over say... 50%. Does he then still use them on that particular investment, or are they no longer become so important.
best wishes for the interview
Hey Grindertrader, thank you. Yeah, I think stop losses is a very big topic to get him talking about. Great question - cheers!