You're about to join Jerry Parker, Maritz Siebert, and Neil's Kastrup 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. Jerry Parker, Morritz Sebert and Iils Castro-Larsen, are back with this week's edition

of the Systematic Investor Series, where each week we give you a role and very honest account

of what it's like to be a rules-based investor.

What news and articles caught our attention, and of course course where we also attempt to answer your questions.

First thing though, good morning Jerry. Good afternoon to you. Moritz, how are you guys doing today?

Hi, Neil's. Hi, Jerry. I'm doing well.

Good, good, good. Sounds like there's a bit of a cold going on in Munich today.

Yeah, that's me.

That's you.

Okay, cool.

Now, you know, kind of interesting week, a bit of a turnaround in the fortunes of equities, a pretty decent move up, I thought, looking through the usual markets, obviously a weak dollar.

But then the weak dollar helped, I guess, the energies advanced this week.

Gold made a new 52-week high, as far as I'm aware.

And interestingly enough despite this optimism inequities

the VIX actually recovered toward the end of the week

I think it finished around 16 so that was interesting to me

and of course our favorite sector at the moment, the interest rates,

had another week of strong showing in terms of price,

very low yield at the end of the week, inverted versus the three months.

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