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If you have followed my work for any period of time, or if you had asked me to recommend some books on trading, you may have been surprised when I recommended a series of books that don’t really talk about trading much at all. The series author is Nassim Taleb, academic mathematician, philosopher, author and[…]
Planning for contingencies is smart, like buying insurance, creating backups, or running duplicate systems, like in an aircraft, sometimes even triplicate. When you really value something you protect it. As an individual investor, you always have cash around, what we call dry powder, if you didn’t, in the event of a crisis, you would be[…]
These days the number one, two and three topic of conversation is the Pandemic Lockdown. You can’t hide from it, every channel every network, every person is being bombarded with this lockdown, and the natives are getting restless, people want their freedom, the virus be damned! Gold doesn’t care. What do I mean? Well, gold[…]
This is not the way I expected a monthly outlook for the Asymmetric Advisor to go. I would have much rather had 5 opportunities all laid out, with ideas on the amount of capital I was willing to deploy. But the facts are, in the midst of what may become the most significant social and[…]
Rule #1 Only Take on Asymmetric Risks The Asymmetric Advisor focuses on speculating and investing in companies in the Resource Sector. The reason is because of the extreme boom and bust cycles, particularly the junior miners and exploratory companies. They are the riskiest, and as such, the most rewarding companies on the planet to invest[…]
There are many ways to make money in resource investing, extremes in cycles and employing leverage are paramount, however your ability to take full advantage of the asymmetric strategy (small risk versus huge reward) is predicated on using the right type of asset. Several members have asked me about ETFs, or a specific sector index,[…]