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The Compound and Friends

Financial Advice Using Technical Analysis

The Compound and Friends

Josh Brown

Investing, Business News, News, Business

4.72.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Today at the Compound - an all new episode of Talk Your Book with Downtown Josh Brown and Barry Ritholtz talking to Andrew Thrasher, a technical analyst and portfolio manager at a large Midwestern RIA called the Financial Enhancement Group.  Andrew's work look at the structural behavior of prices and volatility in the stock and bond market. In this discussion, Josh and Barry quiz him on the way his firm explains their investment philosophy to clients, the difficulty of marrying technical analysis with fundamental analysis and tons of other stuff.  You can find more of Andrew's writing here: http://www.athrasher.com/  Enable our Alexa skill here - "Alexa, play the Compound show!" https://www.amazon.com/Ritholtz-Wealth-Management-LLC-Compound/dp/B07P777QBZ Talk to us about your portfolio or financial plan here: http://ritholtzwealth.com/ Obviously nothing on this channel should be considered as personalized financial advice just for you or a solicitation to buy or sell any securities. Please see this 3,000 word terms & conditions disclaimer: https://thereformedbroker.com/terms-and-conditions/   Subscribe to the mini podcast on iTunes or Spotify Enable our Alexa skill here - "Alexa, play the Compound show!" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi I'm Josh Brown. We're at the compound with my friend Andrew Thrasher.

0:04.3

Andrew Thrasher writes an analytics note centered around technical analysis.

0:08.2

That's the best way to explain it? Yeah. Probably not, but that's we're going to go with that.

0:11.6

But you're also a portfolio manager at an RIA in the Midwest called

0:16.6

Financial Enhancement Group and we're gonna get into that as well.

0:19.2

Andrew's here to talk about staying curious and how to use technical analysis as part of an ongoing

0:26.2

advisory business.

0:28.0

Let's get into it.

0:29.0

Andrew, you prefer Andrew, I know that.

0:31.0

I call you Andy.

0:32.0

I call you Andy sometimes on Twitter, but it's not, like it's like, it's endearing.

0:36.0

It's a term of affection.

0:37.0

Yeah, yeah. Okay. And you are 16 years old?

0:40.0

Close, 32. 32. All right. So, you and I met in 2010, I want to say, or 11, like a very long time ago.

0:48.4

Yeah, you slept right.

0:50.4

At a big picture conference, when Barry used to do the big picture conference.

0:53.4

Yeah, that's right. Oh, Barry Reynolds here with us as always. So, lurking in the background.

0:58.8

So you were talking about just the idea, the difference between fundamental and technical analysis and there are a lot of differences but one interesting one that you brought up

1:08.0

Which I'd love to hear more on is that with fundamental analysis there are a million inputs right you can have all

1:14.2

different types of metrics that you're trying to feed into right whatever your

1:17.4

research is with technical analysis it's really price and then derivatives of

1:21.8

price so does that make your life easier?

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