Month: October 2016

Hedging Extraordinary Risk
Podcast
Chris MacIntosh

Hedging Extraordinary Risk

We have extraordinary risk, OK? Anyone telling you otherwise is blind, trying to sell you something, or just plain stupid. It’s a result of the mispricing of assets globally, and that is 2 parts globally coordinated central bank policies which are skewing the cost of capital and 1 part market

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Steven Seagal
Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

Risk Happens Fast

As a teenager brimming with testosterone my reptilian brain loved action movies. Top of my list were Steven Seagal movies. Clearly it wasn’t for his acting skills, which are only marginally better than Barney the dinosaur. What I loved about Seagal was that he was both deadly and terribly fast.

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The passive investing bubble
World Out Of Whack
Chris MacIntosh

World Out Of Whack: A Bubble in Dumb Money

Market dislocations occur when financial markets, operating under stressful conditions, experience large widespread asset mispricing. Welcome to this week’s edition of “World Out Of Whack” where every Wednesday we take time out of our day to laugh, poke fun at and present to you absurdity in global financial markets in all its glorious insanity.

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Chris MacIntosh Interview
Podcast
Chris MacIntosh

A Peek Into My Mind

I was interviewed recently by Vesper Capital, a fund which manages a fund of funds for FX trading strategies. The interview was broken into 3 parts. In the first part we discuss formative years: Then in part 2, we discuss assessing risk, how psychology can interfere with investing, and much more:

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Don't invest in ETFs
Financial Markets
Chris MacIntosh

Never Invest In These HORRIBLE Things. Ever!

Trade them, yes. But NEVER invest in them. A reader asked me some time back what I thought about a particular ETF. I told him I often hate ETFs and promised to provide a more detailed explanation as to why some day. Today is that day. ETFs which simply hold equities

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Berlin Wall
World Out Of Whack
Chris MacIntosh

World Out Of Whack: Walls – Going Viral

Market dislocations occur when financial markets, operating under stressful conditions, experience large widespread asset mispricing. Welcome to this week’s edition of “World Out Of Whack” where every Wednesday we take time out of our day to laugh, poke fun at and present to you absurdity in global financial markets in all it’s glorious insanity.

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Chris Mayer of Bonner family office on investing in "the new normal"
Podcast
Chris MacIntosh

Investing In The ‘New Normal’ With Chris Mayer

Today I spoke with an old friend, Chris Mayer. Chris is the investment director at the Bonner family office. We covered a lot of things including: The rise of passive investing and the inevitable consequences of what is almost certainly a bubble. How investors are increasingly buying equities and treating

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Beach Ratio
Other
Chris MacIntosh

The Easy, Uncomplicated Way To Get Rich

I talk a lot about the global investment markets here. I’m focused on making profits, and often I’m looking to make multiples, knowing full well that some opportunities won’t work out. I’ll get timing wrong or I’ll miss something entirely and need to hedge, reposition, or exit entirely. That’s life. But

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