VOL11: The Anatomy of a Trade ft. Alex Gurevich

Top Traders Unplugged

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen

Business, Business News, Investing, News

4.8 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Hari is joined by Alex Gurevich, author, PhD in mathematics and founder of HonTe Investments, to discuss how he values bonds differently to many investors today, how to build a balanced portfolio, the many ways to loose money when buying an option (even if you are "kinda" right) as well as how he makes decisions as a trader, how to manage stress and keep a healthy lifestyle as a hedge fund manager and what the future of the global financial markets may look like.

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In this episode, we discuss:

How different types of bonds are valuated
The pattern in how many times the FED tends to move rates, once they begin
Why Rate cycles are getting shorter (in time)
Why Alex believes that the FED should not raise rates before reducing their balance sheet
Alex playbook for the Ukrainian crisis: Oil could collapse to $40 and Rates could go back to zero
How your performance can end up defining who you are (if you are not careful)
The synchronisation of the central banks and how the future might look for the global financial market

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Episode TimeStamps:

00:00 - Intro

02:42 - Introduction to Alex and his background

07:20 - How Alex think about bonds

16:37 - Have bonds become more important since 2008?

18:15 - Making decisions as a trader, and handling...

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0:00.0	I have noticed that every few years something happens.
0:10.0	And it's something that you could not have predicted.
0:12.0	It's always something happens.
0:14.0	And no one would think that that would be the war in Europe.
0:18.0	Like if somebody asked me that the next thing that's going to happen, that's going to really put us into a weird and properly understood environment, that that would be the war, breaking out full-scale war in Eastern Europe.
0:29.6	Like, I wouldn't have, maybe some people would have thought that, I wouldn't have.
0:31.6	And even when the war was kind of looming, when the tensions were rising, I wouldn't be the one to say,
0:37.8	well, this is what's going to dictate the direction of global financial markets.
0:41.8	Imagine spending an hour with the world's greatest traders.
0:46.8	Imagine learning from their experiences, their successes, and their failures.
0:51.3	Imagine no more.
0:53.3	Welcome to Top Traders Unplugged,
0:55.8	the place where you can learn from the best hedge fund managers in the world
0:59.3	so you can take your manager, due diligence, or investment career to the next level.
1:04.2	Before we begin today's conversation,
1:06.1	remember to keep two things in mind.
1:08.2	All the discussion we'll have about investment performance is about the
1:11.2	past, and past performance does not guarantee or even infer anything about future performance.
1:16.9	Also understand that there's a significant risk of financial loss with all investment strategies,
1:21.6	and you need to request and understand the specific risks from the investment manager about
1:26.0	their product before you make investment
1:27.9	decisions. Here's your host, veteran hedge fund manager, Niels Kostrup Larson.
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