My guest today is Robert Seawright, the Chief Investment & Information Officer for Madison Avenue Securities, a boutique broker-dealer and investment advisory firm headquartered in San Diego, California. Seawright is also a columnist for Research magazine, a Contributing Editor at Portfolioist as well as a contributor to the Financial Times, The Big Picture, The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch, Pragmatic Capitalism, and ThinkAdvisor.
The topic is his blog A New Kind Of Investment Outlook.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- How Seawright was able to put together this blog piece
- Perfection and prediction
- Bias blindness
- Volatility vs. risk
- Separating your politics from your investing
- Financial media as entertainment
- Whether Seawright encountered any pushback after putting out his article
- Letting go of the high leverage idea
- Why the more we trade
- The worse we do
- Nobel laureate David Baltimore
- Adversarial collaboration
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