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Welcome to the Systematic Investor Series.

Welcome, welcome, welcome back to this week's edition of the systematic investor series with Nick Bolters and I, Neil's Castor Larsen, where each week we take the pulse of the global market through the lens of a rules-based investor.

Nick, great to be with you this week. It's been a little hectic this week, and I think actually our audience will notice that very quickly because we don't have a really strict agenda.

Both of us have been pretty busy, and therefore we're going to be freestyling,

but we're also going to try and bring a lot of the things we talk about as quote unquote theoretical topics into real-time commentary from a week of interesting market action.

But before we get to that, how you doing hello niels i am doing

very well look i was anticipating the this week of august just before i take some some weeks of

holidays to be much more relaxed than we know what the market was um i was anticipating to deliver

to us and you know i guess to your point we don't have an agenda but we have like no so many things in this agenda that the market has delivered to us so I'm doing well I am doing well

enjoying part of the Olympics as much as I can see these days but you know but beyond that

markets are keeping us really really really really busy it's been a very hectic week it's

Friday today so it's pretty busy.

Absolutely, absolutely.

Now, before we get into all the technical stuff, as you know,

I always love to hear what's been on your radar.

Although I might have a guess about what's been on your radar,

but besides that part, maybe there's some other non-market stuff that you've been focusing, like the Olympics.

Have you had a chance to watch it?

Yes, so I'm a big fan of sports, and Olympics is something I kind of love watching over the years.

I mean, I still remember 20 years ago when they took place in Greece, and I was kind of spending

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