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Best Global Macro Trading Books: A Reading List for Investors
The successful macro investor must be some magical mixture of an acute analyst, an investment scholar, a listener, a historian, a river boat gambler, and be a voraciousreader. Reading is crucial.~ Barton Biggs After being asked countless times about the best books to read when it comes to markets and trading, I finally decided to create…
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Uncertainty Is Good For The Stock Market
The following is an excerpt from our weekly Market Brief. If you’re interested in learning more about Market Briefs and the Macro Ops Hub, click here.Here’s an interesting question: Is the Trump administration’s erratic policy and governing style bullish or bearish for stocks? Lately, I’ve read a number of analyst notes talking about how the current…
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Achieve Market Mastery Through Fallibilism And Perspectivism
Macro Ops is dedicated to one thing: mastering the markets.But the path towards mastery isn’t linear. It’s a messy one that requires constant iteration, observation, backtracking, and improvement. Ray Dalio has a good visual for it: The loops in the path are the necessary pain points that come with the journey. In order to push…
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Why Our Evolutionary Biology Works Against Us In Markets
“I think investment psychology is by far the most important element, followed by risk control, with the least important consideration being the question of where you buy and sell.” ~Tom Basso, Market Wizard A strong psychological foundation is the key to successful investing. The human mind is a powerful, complex tool that quickly turns into…
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Low Volatility Begets Low Volatility. Here’s Why…
The following is an excerpt from our monthly Macro Intelligence Report (MIR). If you’re interested in learning more about the MIR, click here.The trading community has been yapping away about the VIX trading sub-11 and the extreme number of speculative shorts involved. They’re saying it’s gotta burst higher. Their proclamations are presented with a chart like…
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Why Equities Are NOT Overvalued: The Relative Risk-Premium Spread
The following is an excerpt from our monthly Macro Intelligence Report (MIR). If you’re interested in learning more about the MIR, click here. Some investors, desperate for better yield, have been reaching not for a new Wall Street product but for a very old one–common stocks. Finding the yield on cash unacceptably low, people who have…
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China’s Mundell-Fleming Trilemma
You’re probably familiar with the story of how Soros and Druckenmiller “broke the Bank of England” in 92’. The two bet against the pound believing that it couldn’t maintain its peg to the Deutsche Mark in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM). They were right. The Bank of England was forced to stop defending the…
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A Review Of Scott Fearon’s “Dead Companies Walking”
The following review is straight from Operator Kean, a member of the Macro Ops Hub. To contact Kean, visit his website here.
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The Most Explosive Stocks of 2017 (IPI, LPG, WLL, CCJ, URRE, CENX)
Wanna buy SPY? You’re better off torching your cash instead. At least you’ll get a viral instagram video out of it. The largest 500 stocks have been uptrending for the last 8 years and have little room left to go…
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Trump And The Dollar
The following is an excerpt from our weekly Market Brief. If you’re interested in learning more about Market Briefs and the Macro Ops Hub, click here.