“A Budding Cotton Trade…” – Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack)
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) I never lock myself down to investing in one style or in one country because...
Founder and head macro trader at Macro Ops, a macro investing research firm geared towards professional and experienced retail traders and investors. Alex spent a decade in the military. Serving in various capacities from scout sniper to interrogator and counterintelligence specialist. Following his military service, he worked as a contract intelligence professional for a number of US agencies (from the DIA to FBI) with a focus on counterintelligence and terrorist financing.
After leaving the field of intelligence he went to work at a global macro hedge fund. He’s been professionally involved in markets since 2010 and now co-manages a macro fund, Foundation Capital, while also running Macro Ops.
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) I never lock myself down to investing in one style or in one country because...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) Good trading is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) In times of change, learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) What an adaptive worldview means is that whenever you learn a new concept in an...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) My fear of the markets has forced me to hone my timing with great precision....
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) “Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification but any success or triumph realized quickly,...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) “This company looks cheap, that company looks cheap, but the overall economy could completely screw...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) “Those whom the gods would destroy they first make proud.” ~ Sophocles In this week’s Dirty Dozen...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) You tend to think past financial crises resemble earthquakes. They are not one-shot events. They...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same laws ~ Arthur Schopenhauer In this week’s Dirty...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) I don’t think you can consistently be a winning trader if you’re banking on being...
On Form and Technique (in Poker and Trading) Hey , Think of poker as a martial art. (Trading too, but...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) It takes a huge investment in introspection to learn that the thirty or more hours...
The Money is Made on "Page Sixteen" Hey , When a story shows up on a magazine cover, the biggest...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) Time is the dominant factor in gambling. Risk and time are opposite sides of the...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) The Extended Disorder Family (or Cluster): (i) uncertainty, (ii) variability, (iii) imperfect, incomplete knowledge, (iv)...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) I think the dominant note of our time is unreality. The thin air of the...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) Remember the last time you sold a currency at what proved to be the bottom,...
Exponential Compounding Methods Hey , Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you’re looking for is like running through...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) In this week’s Dirty Dozey [CHART PACK], we look at a triple-barrelled buy signal in risk-assets and go...
Stan Druckenmiller On How Markets Actually Work Hey , The “greatest money making machine in history”, a man with “Jim...
George Soros' Theory of Reflexivity Hey , Remember the scene from the 90’s classic, The Sandlot, where “Smalls” loses his father’s Babe...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) When a new bull market is launched it is *not* typically widely accepted or believed...
The South Sea Bubble Redux Hey , One thing is certain, that at particular times a great deal of stupid...
The Markets will be Volatile in 2023, here are the Charts to Help you Navigate them! https://youtu.be/w5N43AB8nQs Alex Barrow, founder...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) Hey , I’m leaning short on the equity markets. I think the upside/downside [risk here]...
Why Do You Play This Game? Hey , The other night at a family get together one of my cousin’s...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) hat are the factors that gave rise to investors’ success over the last 40 years?...
Playing Off Other Market Players Hey , One of the coolest things to watch in nature is a Starling murmuration....
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) Hey , The securities we typically analyze are those that reflect the behavioral anomalies arising...
Don't be a Dumb Contrarian Hey , On being a contrarian from Michael Lewis’ Liar’s Poker: Everyone wants to be, but no...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) Reflexive processes tend to follow a certain pattern. In the early stages, the trend has...
Inflation Turned me into a Cannibal... Hey , In his textbook study of historical inflation titled “The Great Wave,” David...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) The most obvious way to do something complex, such as govern 100 million people or...
The Fallacy of Market Prediction Hey , Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead… only try to...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) The less successful you are, the more you’re going to have to work to correct...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) What winning traders share, however, is that they all understand that losing is part of...
Conditional Edge Stacking in the Market Hey , I also believed then, as I do now after more than fifty...
The Truth About Market Edges Hey , To be an active investor, you must believe in inefficiency and efficiency. You...
On Form and Technique (in Poker and Trading) Hey , Think of poker as a martial art. (Trading too, but...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) Hey , To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your...
The Naked Market Sniper Hey , I want to talk about the problem of optimizing for the wrong things in markets. It’s...
Monday Dirty Dozen (Chart Pack) Hey , People form opinions at their own pace and in their own way; the...
Rapidly Evolving Your Trading Process Hey , This will make you sit up in your chair (emphasis mine):In the 1990’s...
Your Monday Dirty Dozen Hey , Personal intuition does not mean that you can translate last night’s exotic dream into...
The Macro Ops Process Explained Hey , One of the things I love about markets is that there are so...
Your Monday Dirty Dozen Understanding and dealing correctly with the trade-off between risk and return is a fundamental, but poorly...
Your Monday Dirty Dozen Hey , Implementation and flexibility. You need to implement a trade in a way that limits...
Your Monday Dirty Dozen Hey,In all markets, price extremes are usually attended by a consensus that the trend, be it...
The Money is Made on "Page Sixteen" Hey , When a story shows up on a magazine cover, the biggest...
Your Monday Dirty Dozen For those who ignore the energetic and material imperatives of our world, those who prefer mantras...
Your Monday Dirty Dozen Tape Reading is rapid-fire horse sense. Its object is to determine whether stocks are being accumulated...
Your Monday Dirty Dozen Hey , “Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated...
Your Monday Dirty Dozen Hey , “As an alternative approach, one of the traders I know does very well in...
Calling a Life Audible Hey , I’m taking the advice from my friend and mentor who told me (mentioned in...
The Game Has Changed Hey , ***The following is an excerpt from a recent Market Note sent out to members...
Your Monday Dirty Dozen Hey , “You are—face it—a bunch of emotions, prejudices, and twitches, and this is all very...
Your Monday Dirty Dozen Hey ,“Where you want to be is always in control, never wishing, always trading…” ~ Paul Tudor...
Your Monday Dirty Dozen Hey ,“Most people will not wait for the environment to tip itself off. They will walk...
Feedback Loops of Destruction Hey, ***Below is an excerpt from a note sent to Collective membersearlier this week*** “This is my 45th...
Your Monday Dirty Dozen Hey ,“There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining,...
Emergent Properties of the Market Collective Hey , Do you like birds? I do. Not just because they’re fun to watch but...
The Fallacy of Market Prediction Hey ,Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead… only try to realize...
The Most Important Fundamental Hey ,Let’s talk about this tweet from the very astute Mark Dow. Asset shortages are something I’ve been...
We do Not See a Recession in 2022! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt4LjCWqulg Alex Barrow, founder of Macro-Ops, sits down with Blake Morrow to...
Your Monday Dirty Dozen "[Value traps happen’] when you get down toward the lower end of these valuations, value people...