Alex Krainer

The Delingpod: The James Delingpole Podcast

James Delingpole

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Support the Delingpod’s existence by joining James' Locals: https://jamesdelingpole.locals.com/ Alex Krainer is an author and former hedge fund manager based in Monaco. He was born and raised in the socialist regime of former Yugoslavia, under one-party communist rule. At 17 he joined a student exchange program in the United States where he took up his university studies. From there his path led to Switzerland on a scholarship where he completed a degree in Business and Economics and advanced to a masters program. From Switzerland he moved to Venezuela where he lived for a year and experienced his first banking crisis in 1994. Nine of Venezuela’s 16 largest banks failed and brought the country’s economy to a grinding halt. That year he returned to his native Croatia and joined the military where he served through 1995 during the last phases of Croatia’s war of independence. In 1996, upon discharge from the military, he took employment at an oil trading company in Monaco. In 1998 he became the head of risk and in 2000 the company's CEO. He had originated the firm’s research and development program in market analysis and application of neural networks and artificial intelligence in trading financial and commodities markets. By 2007 he launched his own investment management business and was among the small minority of managers who generated positive investment returns (+27% net of fees) during the 2008 financial crisis. Over the following six years, his hedge fund outperformed the Dow Jones Credit Suisse index of Blue Chip managed futures funds. In 2011 Alex Joined Lee Robinson’s Altana Wealth to manage the firm’s tail risk strategy. From 2012 to 2019, always relying on I-System strategies, this fund outperformed the EurekaHedge Tail Risk Index. In 2020 he set up Krainer Analytics to provide turn-key portfolio solutions and trading decision support to third party investment managers. In 2015 he published his first book titled “Mastering Uncertainty in Commodities Trading," (free download) which was ranked #1 book on FinancialExpert.co.uk list of “The 5 Best Commodities Books for Investors and Traders” for 2021. In 2017, he published "Grand Deception: Truth About Bill Browder, Maghitsky Act and the Anti-Russia Sanctions," which was promptly banned by Amazon. In 2019, Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance published his paper on commodity price risk management titled, "Commodity price risk, profits and value creation." In 2021 he also published "Alex Krainer's Trend Following Bible" (free download) and launched his YouTube channel, MARKETS, TRENDS & PROFITS. This episode is sponsored by Thor Holt: https://www.thorholt.com/ or https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorholt/ Freedom isn’t free - James needs your support to continue creating The Delingpod. There are many ways you can show your support to James: Join the James Delingpole Community as a paid supporter at: jamesdelingpole.locals.com Support James monthly at: subscribestar.com/jamesdelingpole Support James’ Writing at: substack.com/jamesdelingpole www.delingpoleworld.com Buy James a Coffee at: buymeacoffee.com/jamesdelingpole Find full episodes of The Delingpod for free (and leave a 5-star rating) on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-delingpod-the-james-delingpole-podcast/id1449753062 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7bdfnyRzzeQsAZQ6OT9e7G?si=a21dc71c7a144f48 Podbean: delingpole.podbean.com Odysee: https://odysee.com/@JamesDelingpoleChannel:0 Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/JamesDelingpole BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Zxu5yMwNWTbs/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheJamesDelingpoleChannel Follow James on Social Media: Twitter: twitter.com/jamesdelingpole Instagram: instagram.com/delingpodclips GETTR: gettr.com/jamesdelingpole Telegram: https://t.me/+dAx_7JX7WQlwYzVk

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dellingbot with me, James Dellingbot, and I know I always say I'm excited
0:19.8	about this week's special guest, but before I introduce him, let's have a word from
0:24.2	our sponsor Thor. Our Dellingbot sponsor Thor Holt has taken a vow of silence in January,
0:31.7	and is letting his clients talk today. The first client is the owner of a multi-award
0:36.0	winning Scottish IT firm, managing director Cheryl says, Thor is like Marmite, love it
0:42.1	or hate it, he's honest, authentic, funny, clever, and super talented. We have laughed and
0:47.1	cried, and he is just amazing what he does. If you need help with strategic presentations,
0:52.0	I never go anywhere else. Feel fortunate to always have him in my corner. I hate Marmite,
0:57.7	but bloody love this man. The final client feedback note is a company owner who
1:02.0	employs Thor as a non-executive director to help him aggressively scale up and then exit
1:07.2	his Yorkshire-based business. He says, Thor, you're underselling yourself, you do what
1:11.8	you say on the tin, but better. You've absolutely turbocharged me, properly stoked to my
1:16.8	fire. Read 80 more client recommendations for Thor and connect with him today at linkedin.com
1:23.4	forward slash in forward slash Thor Holt. Well, special guest, Alex Crana, welcome, welcome
1:33.5	to the Dellingbot. So Alex, I gather in our very, very brief chat before we started,
1:39.3	I don't like to do chat before because it gets wasted on the cutting room floor. Are
1:45.5	you in Monaco? Yes, I'm in Monaco. Right. Well, I mean, well done for being in a position
1:55.7	where you can afford to live in Monaco. What's it like living in Monaco? Well, you know,
2:02.5	if you asked me this question before the pandemic, I would have told you is the best place
2:08.4	in the world. Yeah, I have to say the pandemic ruined it a little bit for me, but to be fair,
2:15.2	the pandemic ruined a lot of places. So I would say, I've lived in many countries in my
2:22.3	life. I've lived in, you know, in the former Yugoslavia, I lived in Croatia, I lived in
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