29: Predicting, Trading and Profiting from Trump’s Victory
Invest Like a Boss
Sam Marks Johnny FD Derek Spartz
4.8 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2016
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Christopher O’Donnell is the Founder and Investment Manager of hedge fund Automatic. Automatic generates risk managed superior returns by using automated trading systems and trading special circumstances. Christopher has reviewed over 6,000 automated trading systems and has developed a proprietary selection criteria for choosing profitable trading systems. Christopher correctly predicted Brexit and Trump’s POTUS victory, and profitably traded both special circumstances. On this episode, we discuss Christopher’s article “Trump Will Win and How To Profit”. We drill into Christopher’s predictions on Brexit and Trump, trades made to capitalize on Trump’s win and the next big special circumstances event, the Italy Referendum on December 4
On this episode, we discuss Christopher’s article “Trump Will Win and How To Profit”. We drill into Christopher’s predictions on Brexit and Trump, trades made to capitalize on Trump’s win and the next big special circumstances event, the Italy Referendum on December 4th, 2016.
On this episode you’ll hear from Chris himself on:
- Chris’s trading business and how it's relevant to his predictions
- How he predicted Brexit in the past
- Where he gets is Intel and data
- How long he had been predicting this election?
- At what point did he see a definite Trump victory?
- When and how he positioned his trades
- How did the trades work out- What is the next big event he will be predicting?
- What is the next big event he will be predicting?
For more about Chris: Christopher O’Donnell is the Founder and Investment Manager of hedge fund Automatic. Automatic generates risk managed superior returns by using automated trading systems and trading special circumstances. Christopher has reviewed over 6,000 automated trading systems and has developed a proprietary selection criteria for choosing profitable trading systems. Christopher correctly predicted Brexit and Trump’s POTUS victory, and profitably traded both special circumstances. On this episode, we discuss Christopher’s article “Trump Will Win and How To Profit”. We drill into Christopher’s predictions on Brexit and Trump, trades made to capitalize on Trump’s win and the next big special circumstances event, the Italy Referendum on December 4th, 2016.
Chris' Links:
Chris’s article “Trump Will Win and How To Profit”
Discussed:
Brexit the Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTMxfAkxfQ0
Show Notes:
03:20 - Starting a British hedge fund
06:00 - Automating coding strategy trading
08:01 - Risk tolerance
10:45 - Predicting Brexit
14:45 - Shy Trump supporters
18:45 - Announcing presidential election
21:01 - Why Chris chose Trump
24:45 - Liberal bias in the mainstream media
28:00 - Making profitable trades
33:00 - NY Times predicts Trumps victory
37:38 - Forex leverage trading USD to Yen
40:30 - Future referendum predictions
46:45 - Real Estate predictions after the election
50:00 - Sailing the Caribbean
51:50 - Wealthfront & VTI investment update
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| 0:47.5 | Hey, this is Johnny and welcome to invest like a boss. This is episode 29 and I'm back here with my co-host Sammarts. |
| 0:55.3 | Hey, Johnny. |
| 0:56.8 | Greetings from Puerto Rico. |
| 0:58.8 | Where are you? |
| 1:00.3 | Greetings from Thai, Thailand. |
| 1:02.8 | I'm sure we'll talk a lot about this at the end of the show, but I'm excited to have on Chris O'Donnell on the show and kind of hear what his thoughts |
| 1:14.3 | were on taking big gambols, trying to predict who's going to win the presidency and investing |
| 1:19.9 | on that. |
| 1:20.7 | Right. |
| 1:21.0 | Definitely. |
| 1:21.8 | Well, as we know, he did accurately predict it. |
| 1:25.3 | He also accurately predicted Brexit. |
| 1:26.9 | And a lot of our boss lounge followers |
| 1:29.5 | made some money off it. So let's see what Chris has to say about his predictions, how he made it |
| 1:35.1 | happen and what he is thinking the next big bet for the future is going to be. |
| 1:39.6 | Sounds good. This is an episode. |
| 1:41.3 | Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. Today we have on the show Chris O'Donnell, |
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