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 4th, 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   If you enjoyed this episode, do us a favor and share it! Also if you haven’t already, please take a minute to leave us a 5-star review on iTunes and claim your bonus here! Copyright 2016. All rights reserved. Read our disclaimer here.

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