My guest today is Victor Sperandeo, known as “Trader Vic”, a US trader, index developer, and financial commentator. He serves as the President and CEO of Alpha Financial Technologies, LLC (AFT), is a founding partner of EAM Partners L.P., and serves as the President and CEO of its general partner, EAM Corporation.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Recent public policy directions
- Trading against your public policy interests
- Zero interest rate policy
- Whether the S&P is a “bribe”
- The Fed mandate to keep stocks from falling and to stop volatility
- The wealth effect
- Why the stock market going up is a very poor instrument to fix the economy
- The trend towards socialism
- Sperandeo’s experience working with George Soros
- Sperandeo’s experience with the DTI index
- lack swans and the effects of large, catastrophic events on the market; why the only way to protect yourself is extreme diversification; volatility balancing; and Sperandeo’s experience as a young man and how he came into the trading world
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