You're about to join Jerry Parker, Maritz Siebert, and Nealz Kostrup Larson on their raw and

honest journey into the world of systematic investing and learn about the most dependable and

consistent yet often overlooked investment strategy. Welcome to the systematic investor podcast series.

Hey everyone and welcome back to this week's edition of the systematic investor series

with Mark Resensinski and I, Niels Karzalsalsh, where each week we take the polls for the global

markets through the lens of a rules-based investor.

For those of you who are regular listeners, our conversations are intended to give you as much of the nurture and encouragement

as the turtles got back in the 1980s, as Jerry puts it.

And if you're new to the show, we hope that today's episode will trigger your appetite

to learn more by diving into the back catalog and listen to all of the past episodes that you may have missed,

like last week's episode with Jerry, where we took an unexpected journey down memory lane

to discuss how the landscape of investors in trend following has evolved during the last three decades,

which may surprise some of you. So I invite you to listen to this if you missed it.

Mark, always great to be back with you. How are things where you are in the Northeast?

Good. We're in the middle of summer, so town is a little sleepy that I'm in because I think

a lot of people are out at their summer homes and such, but things are going well.

There are a lot of activity in the market, so there's enough to keep you in a chair and keep your head scratching on what to do next.

Indeed.

We've got a great lineup of questions from James, Frank, Mark, John, and Frederick, as well as some other topics that you brought along. But before we

dive into those, I wanted to do my market wrap as usual. But actually, before I do that,

I just wanted to acknowledge and give a shout out to those of you who left the rating and

review this week. As you know, we so appreciate this. And in particular, there was one very

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