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Animal Spirits Podcast

Talk Your Book: The Prophet of Capital Preservation

Animal Spirits Podcast

The Compound

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, we had Darren Schuringa, CEO and Founder of ASYMmetric ETFs on to discuss market volatility, how leverage works within leveraged ETFs, how ASYMmetric utilizes leverage and trend following, and much more! Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation.   (Wealthcast Media, an affiliate of Ritholtz Wealth Management, received compensation from the sponsor of this advertisement. Inclusion of such advertisements does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation thereof, or any affiliation therewith, by the Content Creator or by Ritholtz Wealth Management or any of its employees. Investments in securities involve the risk of loss. Any mention of a particular security and related performance data is not a recommendation to buy or sell that security. The information provided on this website (including any information that may be accessed through this website) is not directed at any investor or category of investors and is provided solely as general information.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's Animal Spirits Talkbook is presented by Asymmetric ETFs.

0:04.4

Go to ASYMshares.com to learn more about their three different funds,

0:09.3

all rules based. We're going to get into them on the show today. That's ASYMshares.com.

0:14.9

Welcome to Animal Spirits, a show about markets, life, and investing.

0:19.6

Join Michael Batnik and Ben Carlson as they talk about what they're reading, writing, and watching.

0:25.9

Michael Batnik and Ben Carlson work for Ritholds Wealth Management.

0:29.4

All opinions expressed by Michael and Ben or any podcast guests are solely their own opinions

0:33.9

and do not reflect the opinion of Ritholds Wealth Management. This podcast is for informational

0:38.4

purposes only and should not be relied upon for investment decisions. Clients of Ritholds Wealth

0:42.8

Management may maintain positions in the securities discussed in this podcast.

0:47.1

Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben. Ben, your voice got a little radio guy.

0:51.6

It was a very smooth intro. Did you feel that?

0:54.4

It's because I've been sick lately, so I've got the bear's phone down, maybe.

0:59.9

That was a fun one. We had a good talk today with Darren Schringer from Asymmetric ETFs,

1:06.3

which is a new company to us. We said it was one of the more interesting conversations

1:10.3

we've had in a while. We haven't gotten many in a while, but for three or four years there,

1:15.8

our inbox at least once a week was someone saying, I want to put at least part of my portfolio

1:21.4

in something with leverage because I'm in my 20s and in my 30s, I have decades to compound.

1:26.8

I know I'm going to have more volatility. If I can take advantage of the leverage,

1:31.3

I want to use it and I think it's going to work out in the end because I'm a long-term investor.

1:34.5

We should have Sean plot those emails when they came in against the S&P 500. They definitely

1:38.8

clustered. Probably be a zero now. The answer was always, you're going to lose 70, 80, 90 percent

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