Talking finance and trend following with 2 vikings

Last week I had the pleasure of joining “2 Vikings” for a podcast interview. The 2 Vikings are Frank Nilsen and Stian Nicolaysen, two Norwegian podcasters and successful entrepreneurs (Frank was a top 10 podcast producer on iTunes). The unusual aspect of our long conversation (it had to be broken into two parts) was that our discussion converged on the fallen financial system in which we’re forced to operate and further moved onto the subject of trend following. Part 1 of my discussion with the 2 vikings (audio only) is available at the following link: 

https://sites.libsyn.com/489920/how-does-the-financial-system-work-with-alex-krainer

As investors, Frank and Stian were very interested in this subject and our conversation just took off from there. As I told them afterwards, I’ve been averaging two or three podcast interviews per week for months now, but the day-job – the subject one could talk about for hours and hours – that subject almost never comes up.

No, trend following is very much relevant

In a way, that’s understandable; as the world hangs on a thread with risk of nuclear armageddon more acute than it’s ever been, trend following may seem like an obscure and irrelevant subject. However, I think it is a very important subject. Most of our problems today derive from the fraudulent monetary system which predictably erodes the purchasing power of our savings. In effect, they are systematically being stolen by those who have usurped the power to print money and dilute everyone’s wealth by creating and circulating new money.

Trend following is the Swiss Army knife of investing

To avoid being robbed in this way, we must endeavor to invest our savings and convert them into assets that can generate sufficient return for us to offset the dilution of our purchasing power. Well, since we’re forced to speculate and invest, discussing effective strategies of investing is a very relevant subject – one we should try to master in order to navigate our economic environment effectively. Trend following might be the Swiss Army knife of investing that belongs in every investors’ toolbox of essentials and the most recent example of this has been the last two years decline in bonds prices which has escalated into the greatest bonds bear market in over 236 years! This episode and the performance of trend following strategies has been very fascinating to observe and I will cover it in a follow-up article.

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