Andreas Clenow Simplicity Momentum And Systematic Trading

TITLE: Andreas Clenow: Simplicity, Momentum, and Systematic Trading | In The Money by Zerodha Podcast 06 CHANNEL: In The Money by Zerodha DATE: 2026-04-13 ---TRANSCRIPT--- Everybody thinks they’re a genius in the bull market. I thought I was clever back then. Of course, I wasn’t. I was a lucky kid. Right time, right place. And I was reading pretty much every trading book I could get hold of. It took me also many years to realize that very few of the books were actually useful in any way. My personal opinion has been for the last five, six years that this bull market has lasted way too long. It’s going to crash any moment. I don’t trade on my views. I trade on my math. Opinions are not always good. It’s never a matter of the best possible rules, the best possible system, the most profit. That’s not how you build a professional trading strategy. First, you need to figure out what are you looking for to make money is not an answer. People are saying strategies only work because everybody follows it or they say because nobody knows about it. And both can’t be true. I used to build very complicated things like 20 years ago. The older I get, the more I realize that simplicity gets the job done.

Andreas Clenow is a Zurich-based fund manager, quantitative trader, entrepreneur, and best-selling author known for translating systematic strategies into practical frameworks. He currently serves as CIO of a family office, overseeing multiple investment programs and managing a 9-figure asset base. Before stepping into the family office role, he built a career that spans both technology and finance. He started programming at a young age, studied finance at Gothenburg School of Economics and founded an IT company in the 1990s before moving into the financial sector. He later joined Reuters, led a Nordic consulting division working with banks and asset managers and eventually left the corporate life to launch and run his own hedge fund business. Outside of portfolio management, he has continued to build products and research platforms for systematic investors, including Clenow Research and now the Hush app. Beyond that, Andreas is popular among traders and investors for his books, Following the Trend, Stocks on the Move, and Trading World. He’s also written a fictional novel titled A Most Private Bank.

The interview covers Clenow’s journey from childhood computing to systematic trading, his views on trend following vs momentum, portfolio construction, the managed futures industry, his stance on crypto, mean reversion strategies, why retail traders should manage other people’s money, and his current fintech venture Hush Investments.