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LeviF
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In a few interviews Eckhardt states something along the lines of only using "bounded utility functions" in his money management work.

I understand the concept and am sort of using it in that I am pretty sure I would not be trading at my current bet size if I had a few hundred mil in my account.

But I wonder how the concept would influence a CTAs position sizing decisions and if there is something else at work here that is not apparent...
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Maybe he is more interested in a lower bound on the utility function. Maybe he doesn't want a utility function to tell him that a 99.99999 percent loss has a utility of minus Infinity.
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Hence the turtle rule reduce notional trading equity by x% for every y% decrease in total equity?
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