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# 25 Questions Every Investor Should Know About Emil van Essen

### Managed futures has a language of its own, and not only there are plenty of trading strategies to choose from, but hundreds of managers within each managed futures trading strategy that make them unique. The problem is... how can you tell them apart? Here's 25 questions we asked Emil van Essen, so you could get to know the people, the strategy, and the quirks that make them different from the rest.

## ![Emil_Van_Essen_Cover_Image-1](https://info.rcmalternatives.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Emil_Van_Essen_Cover_Image-1.png?width=3417&name=Emil_Van_Essen_Cover_Image-1.png)What you'll learn:

- Emil's 25 year background of investment experience, including Director of Managed Futures for BMO
- How each of Emil's 4 programs uses a combination of both Systematic and Discretionary trading styles
- How the Spread Trading Program manages to have a low to negative correlation to stocks and other Managed Futures benchmarks
- Why choppy or steady trending markets tend to be the best environment for Emil Van Essen
- How a partial discretionary trader, like Emil, applies risk management to all of their programs.

### 25 Questions - Emil van Essen

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