Sam Colt ExChangemaker

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"So called Business Engineer"

Interesting Graph from Man Group, The Bond Problem 

The question the ask is; given super low yields, should you replace the Bonds with gold? 

Well its not a simple yes or no but they provide this interesting graph showing how gold and SNP returns are related. 

and Correlation trend is not your friend, 
 

Kind of mirrors what I saved before: 
 

The above are screenshots from a report called: "US Economic Outlook & Implications of Current Policies for Inflation, Gold and Bitcoin (15th in our COVID-19 Series) by Goldman. Sadly the dropbox link to the full presentation is dead.
 

For more interesting info see below 👇

📙 Let’s Keep Democratizing Finance, Shall We? Jan 2021 Buyside Research
 

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http://www.lannigan.org/pdf/Microsoft_prospectus.pdf

Just an observation here; 

In their q4 results Netflix shared this table: 
 

Fun to note that Big Brother Brazil is #2. (over the weekend they announced the participants of BBB 2021 and it is going to be big as well). But this made me think; 

How does the Mandalorian not make it to the top 10? 
 

so let's use google trends ourselves; 
 

I'm not going to say that Netflix is lying because I looked up this table "year in search" and it is correct. 
 

So can't google share the correct data? Come on, this is a bit strange 

Again looking at another popular show Amazon's The boys; 

 

would love to hear what people think about this. 

This is just a detail but I mean in my opinion, they do blur reality on purpose. 

 

Not that anyone would care since they are going to do more buyback and say they won't need to take more debt since they are cashflow positive. 🤷‍♂️

I guess Reed Hastings pays close attention to how Elon Communicates with stonk holders. 

If I would have to write a paper or thesis now for Uni I think id write something titled: 

"The impact of social media and popular culture on financial stock and investment strategies"

You could spend your time looking at Twitter and /wsb and analyse price movements of the popular Stonks like, TSLA, Signal, GME (gamestop) , BB, Hertz, SPACE, PENN and probably a bunch of other stocks and perhaps also Bitcoin.  
 

Who knows you might get to intern for an Investor Relation team to help them create a better "narrative" after? 

If I had to grade you: Graduation secured. 

Jason Buck and Tyler Pearson have been talking to a handful of Volatility traders on RV. 

Jason recently interviewed Ben Eifert who has amassed quite a following on twitter and also runs a fund called QVR. 

Their conversation is quite a sandwich (24 pages or 1h16 min of podcast) but fun quite insightful. Since the topic of Vol is quite complicated and filled with jargon so I used Otter.ai to make a transcript of the interview. The transcript is like 95 ish % correct, so the spelling can be off or a word might be off but you should be able to read it because of context. I fixed the worst parts myself and added some highlights and notes for myself. 
 

one thing is clear most of what Ben is doing should be Labelled as "Do not try this in your PA". 
Still, it's interesting to hear what these VIX people do in their 40h+ work weeks 😂

Have fun; 

American's unlike Italians, really do pay their taxes. But me being non American have no idea how the US taxmachine works except that it's a big complicated topic and nobody in Murica seems happy about it. While I am reading this I think this data is already worth sharing. 

 https://www.ntu.org/library/doclib/2020/12/2018-who-pays-1-.pdf

If you have heard about Intel, AMD, Nvidea, taiwain semiconductor, ASML but you don't really know what it is they make, this primer is for you. 
At least read chapter 1&2: 

Two Tweets related to what our little monkey brain thinks the market will do and what the market actually did. 

 

For those like me that don't know the first thing about Uranium except maybe that ze Germans don't want it anymore, the French love it and the Iranians would be more than happy to use it and everyone hates them for it 

Here is a usefull primer: