TTU85: The Cycles of Financial Markets ft. David Gurwitz of Charles Nenner Research – 1of2

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

News, Business News, Business, Investing

4.8 • 712 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2015

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This episode has a unique and interesting guest, the kind we rarely have on this show. David Gurwitz does not trade in the financial markets, but provides predictions and research to many firms, including some we have interviewed. He looks at the cycles in financial markets. Keep an open mind during this episode and see what you can learn about Charles Nenner’s research methods, the start of their research business, and what predictions they have been correct on and which ones they missed.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

How David explains what he does, and how this interview is different.
How he played semi-professional basketball in Spain before going into accounting.
How he met Charles Nenner.
How their business works and how cycles works.
How Charles has predicted crude oil drop in 2014.
What they look at when making their predictions.
How they do media appearances and how media has changed.
How they go about doing their research.
Why sunspots might affect the stock market shifts.
How different cultures are more open to the idea of cycles and their effect on the financial sector.
The predictions they’ve made in recent years on the Yen, Gold, and the Euro.
Why looking back at history can show interesting lessons.

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Resources & Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Read the article David mentions in this episode featuring his work in Oil & Gas Investor.
David recommends reading Chaos by James Gleick.
Listen to past episodes with a predictions expert Mahendra Sharma here and here.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	And he's Dutch. So I actually knew why the Dutch have wooden shoes.
0:08.0	Like nobody knows that because things called water. You know, it's a country that's underwater.
0:14.0	The Dutch have to think about if you don't protect the country, we're going to be in trouble.
0:20.0	We're going to drown because the country's underwater.
0:22.5	So that's why Dutch, you know, and so it's a mindset that he has about protecting the downside.
0:28.3	That's the main thing to the system.
0:30.6	It's great.
0:31.4	Make a lot of money.
0:32.4	You could lose a lot of money.
0:33.7	And we've seen it all the time.
0:35.7	And so the main thing is avoid going against the cycles.
0:39.5	That's the starting point to our backgrounds.
0:43.5	Today's conversation is going to be a bit different from my usual format.
0:48.1	But in an interesting way, my guest is not a trader.
0:51.9	And in fact, he's somewhat similar to one of my most popular guests so far.
0:56.5	And he was not a trader either.
0:58.8	Instead, they both deal with forecasting the future of markets and economies around the world.
1:05.2	But whenever I do this, I feel a bit uncertain how you, the listener, will react and receive the information I'm about to share.
1:13.7	But what convinces me is focusing on why I'm doing the podcast in the first place.
1:20.8	And it boiled down to three simple questions.
1:24.5	Number one is what I've created here or contributed here distinct, meaning it's
1:30.5	different, but it's not crazy? Number two, is this my most excellent contributing meaning
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