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Welcome to the Systematic Investor Series.

Welcome or welcome back to this week's edition of the Systematic Investor series with Mark Rensinski and I in Neelskastel Larsen, where each week we take the polls of the global

markets through the lens of a rules-based investor.

Now, for those of you who are regular listeners, this podcast series is all about voicing our differences on the one topic that brings us together, namely systematic investing using the often overlooked but very robust strategy of trend following.

We hope that today's episode will trigger your curiosity to learn more by diving into the back catalog and listen to the past episode that you may have

missed like last week's episode with Gem where we among many other things discussed how the

ultra-low skew has created a dangerous situation for the economy and when the situation

might turn back to normal. So you don't want to miss that episode. But also, I would encourage you to listen to the Wednesday episode,

where we this week, we spoke with Marco Pappick,

partner and chief strategist at Clock Tower Group.

And it was a conversation on geopolitical analysis

and how it can be used to predict the future

based on his recent book, Geopolitical Alpha,

an investment framework for predicting the future.

And as we all know and have learned this year, geopolitics are once again dominating the world

markets.

So if you missed any of these conversations, I would really encourage you to go back and listen

to these episodes as soon as you've finished listening to Mark and I today.

Mark, it's great to be back with you on this U.S. holiday week where a combination of fed minutes

and thin liquidity did provide a little bit of excitement. How are you doing? How have you been

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