29: Predicting, Trading and Profiting from Trump’s Victory

Christopher O’Donnell is the Founder and Investment Manager of hedge fund Automatic. Automatic generates risk managed superior returns by using automated trading systems and trading special circumstances. Christopher has reviewed over 6,000 automated trading systems and has developed a proprietary selection criteria for choosing profitable trading systems. Christopher correctly predicted Brexit and Trump’s POTUS victory, and profitably traded both special circumstances. On this episode, we discuss Christopher’s article “Trump Will Win and How To Profit”. We drill into Christopher’s predictions on Brexit and Trump, trades made to capitalize on Trump’s win and the next big special circumstances event, the Italy Referendum on December 4

On this episode, we discuss Christopher’s article “Trump Will Win and How To Profit”. We drill into Christopher’s predictions on Brexit and Trump, trades made to capitalize on Trump’s win and the next big special circumstances event, the Italy Referendum on December 4^th, 2016.

On this episode you’ll hear from Chris himself on:

- Chris’s trading business and how it's relevant to his predictions

- How he predicted Brexit in the past

- Where he gets is Intel and data

- How long he had been predicting this election?

- At what point did he see a definite Trump victory?

- When and how he positioned his trades

- How did the trades work out- What is the next big event he will be predicting?

- What is the next big event he will be predicting?

For more about Chris: Christopher O’Donnell is the Founder and Investment Manager of hedge fund Automatic. Automatic generates risk managed superior returns by using automated trading systems and trading special circumstances. Christopher has reviewed over 6,000 automated trading systems and has developed a proprietary selection criteria for choosing profitable trading systems. Christopher correctly predicted Brexit and Trump’s POTUS victory, and profitably traded both special circumstances. On this episode, we discuss Christopher’s article “Trump Will Win and How To Profit”. We drill into Christopher’s predictions on Brexit and Trump, trades made to capitalize on Trump’s win and the next big special circumstances event, the Italy Referendum on December 4th, 2016.

Chris' Links:

Chris’s article “Trump Will Win and How To Profit”

Discussed:

Brexit the Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTMxfAkxfQ0

Show Notes:

03:20 - Starting a British hedge fund

06:00 - Automating coding strategy trading

08:01 - Risk tolerance

10:45 - Predicting Brexit

14:45 - Shy Trump supporters

18:45 - Announcing presidential election

21:01 - Why Chris chose Trump

24:45 - Liberal bias in the mainstream media

28:00 - Making profitable trades

33:00 - NY Times predicts Trumps victory

37:38 - Forex leverage trading USD to Yen

40:30 - Future referendum predictions

46:45 - Real Estate predictions after the election

50:00 - Sailing the Caribbean

51:50 - Wealthfront & VTI investment update

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