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Jan 2021
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SI125: Will the FED always prevent prolo...

NIELS KAASTRUP-LARSEN
About this episode

Mark Rzepczynski joins us today to discuss the Gamestop short-squeeze, democratisation of the investment industry, the increasing expectation among investors that the Federal Reserve will always prevent prolonged market crashes, the 3 main ingredients for a market bubble, whether we are seeing a bubble in the stock market today, the role of short sellers and short selling, whether the WallStreetBets Reddit forum will prompt newer and tighter regulations in the future, the shift towards passive investing over active investing, what we can learn from crowd behaviour, building trading systems without stop-losses, and rare insights into the John W. Henry trading methodology.

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Episode TimeStamps:

00:00 – Intro

01:23 – Macro recap from Niels

05:24 – Weekly review of performance

01:04:34 – Q1; Jonah: Do you recommend adding to a position as the trend develops?

01:12:46 – Benchmark performance update

01:14:27 – Recommended listening or reading this week: The Resilience Engineering website & Danielle DiMartino Booth interviews Vikram Mansharamani on YouTube

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