The A.I. assesses Econometric, Fundamental, Qualitative, Quantitative, Technical and Traditional data and, sentiment from documentation and news flow. Trade, FX, Ticker, Dates, P&L, Contribution Long, USD, AMZN, May28-Aug9, -1.18%, -0.03% Long, USD, ESNT, May28-Aug9, -2.1%, -0.02% Long, USD, LRCX, May28-Aug9, 8.73%, 0.09% Short, USD, MAC, May28-Aug9, 23.57% 0.69% Total Month Realised Return: 0.73% Net cumulative …
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Bitcoin has a market capitalisation of approximately US $200bn with 24 hour trading 7 days a week, making it the perfect TRADING instrument. At present the value of mining a bitcoin, is sustained by the price of bitcoin, which is sustained by net new money into the market, which is sustained by……(insert your own ideas). …
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First Published In FOTT Family Office Magazine Beijing – June 2019 The Turing machine that broke the enigma code during WWII was the birth of Artificial Intelligence (AI). However since then, the adoption of AI has mainly been confined to the manufacturing, transportation and distribution sectors; with the rise of robots that build Japanese cars …
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Originally Published Dec. 15, 2016 Was he sensitive, was he hell? Did he ride to the rescue…..more times than you’ve had hot dinners. And boy could he walk, talk & shoot straight. If he starred in a modern political feature his usual “can-do”character may have got into the following minor scraps and righting of wrongs. …
Originally Published Jun. 27, 2016 “We finally really did it…You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn You! God damn you all to hell!” Cry the Bremain supporters, EU politicians and FX and equity capital markets. The departing and presumptive British PMs suggests a period of calm negotiations before any change occurs. EU politicians and …
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Originally Published Jun. 13, 2016 We are now eight years on from the global catastrophe of the “Great Recession”, but with the US stock market (SPY, DIA, QQQ) banging up against all time highs and global stock market indices (ACWI) recovering to all time peaks reached twelve months ago, can one assume all is swell …
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Originally Published Aug. 25, 2015 We’ve just had the first 10% correction in the US stock market in over 3 years, immediately preceded by a halving of equity valuations in the Chinese stock market, together with most other country stockmarkets moving into bear or correction territory. This has been driven by two factors; a slowdown …
Originally Published 19th January 2015. Last Thursday the Swiss National Bank (SNB) suspended it’s support for a Euro floor against it’s currency of 1.20, the Euro promptly fell 45% against the Franc. i.e. Swiss investors lost 45% in value of their European assets. Eventually the Euro recovered for a loss on the day of 17% …
Originally Published July 26th 2010. On February 25th 2009 the Fed released details of how US banking organizations were to be assessed to ensure that they had sufficient capital to perform on an ongoing basis. The S&P 500 closed that day on 764.9 and, reached a further inter-day low of 666.79 on March 6th 2009. …
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Originally Published July 19th, 2010. According to the Nationwide Building Society, UK new home prices have risen 3% in the first half of 2010, following a previous flat year. This amounts to an astonishing recovery from the global pessimism that remains in most developed economies. So is it sustainable, and why? Like gold bullion, London …
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