1/ I love learning about the markets. There are some brilliant people I’ve found on Twitter who have provided great insights (among others):

@JeffSnider_AIP
@LynAldenContact
@LukeGromen

But this thread is (mostly) about @profplum99

👇👇👇👇👇

2/ Mike has an encyclopedic knowledge of market history. This interview by @DiMartinoBooth (who I also have a lot of respect for) puts that on clear display.

https://t.co/4hSd2TG4du

Mike’s explanation of passive investing and its effects on the markets was eye-opening.
3/ According to research conducted by Anadu et al for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, passive funds made up 48% of US equity assets under management in March 2020. That number was just 14% in 2005. Meaning 8.6% annualized growth over 15 years.

https://t.co/ReuBiCAcPn
4/ Per Mike, “passive funds have this really simple algorithm: if you give me cash, I buy.” No fundamental valuation, just buying the current market-weighted index, which means a stock gets greater representation in your fund the higher its current market value.
5/ Employers and pension fund managers are predictably contributing to IRAs through fixed salary percentages on a monthly basis. And passive funds typically hold tens of basis points of cash on the sidelines because, per Mike, “it’s toxic to their business model.”
6/ I called one of my best friends, an investment advisor who I’ve known since grade 7 and said, “I gotta get a number—give me a number!” He immediately responded, “4”—his hockey jersey number—and then proceeded to tell me that active funds have four to 16% of their AUM in cash.
7/ So, thousands of percentage points higher than passive funds. Meaning trillions of dollars are being inefficiently (from an EMH perspective) pumped into the markets through a sheer desire to reduce fees—delaminating price from fundamental reality in an exponential function.
8/ All fuelled by MMT, negative real interest rates, towering debt levels, hyper-financialization, and millennials YOLOing stimulus checks into whatever the hell they want because they’re fed up with a system that appears unlikely to ever afford them a house with a fenced yard.
9/ Short interest is at an all-time high but the shorts are getting bankrupted because the whole thing is strapped to @elonmusk’s rockets 🚀—so far, the #Challenger hasn’t exploded yet, just Melvin Capital Management in its battle with #reddit traders over the value of #GME
10/ Took some #Bitcoin off the table a couple days ago. Thanks @profplum99. Need to attempt rationality in this market. The numbers are too big in the #USDT debacle and I don’t have any good reason to believe reserves are even close to backed 1:1.

Still a Bitcoin believer though
11/ With high volatility and variance/polarization, the markets and citizenry spend little time at the mean, but the older I get the more I realize #balance is important, as eloquently put by one of the best investors of 2020, @chamath, in his interview last year with @RaoulGMI
12/ I watched Mike’s debate with @nic__carter and came away convinced that my #Bitcoin thesis was still right. I immediately wrote a summary of the interview, mostly detailing my objections to Mike’s points (supported strongly by Nic’s great performance). https://t.co/zaDGja6433
13/ Only after I wrote that thread and declared my bias confirmed did I read the Crypto Anonymous paper and watch recent interviews with the executives at #Tether and #Deltec. “Hmm,” I thought, “why are so few Bitcoiners taking this seriously?”

Maybe Mike had a point...
14/ The likely Tether fraud absolutely needs to be taken seriously, but I still believe in #Bitcoin. The deeper I go in my study of the markets, the more I see relativism—ie, comparing one unhinged thing to another—and the less I see any fundamental grounding to economic reality.
15/ It’s like we went from a #Newtonian understanding of the world where gravity kept things in check to an #Einsteinian one where things now go boom in atomic positive feedback loops—eg, the only way out of a gargantuan debt bubble is by issuing exponentially more.
16/ I believe #Bitcoin can theoretically solve this, acting as a ballast in this wildly unstable economic experiment. @nic__carter was right: we have only been on this pure #fiat experiment for 50 years.
17/ In sum, thank you @profplum99. I’m learning a lot from you and will continue to listen with an open mind.

More from Trading

1/ Feels like a good time to tell the story of how I went from broke to a millionaire to broke again in 2017/18 again...

Yesterday was brutal for some people...

Losing life-changing money sucks, losing any money sucks...you can chase the market or you can change your strategy.

2/ The original thread is gone but you can read it here.

https://t.co/cLLNs75rB0

tl;dr
- Traded $32k to $1.2m
- Thought I was a genius
- Made poor investments
- Didn't conserve capital
- Peaked at 150 BTC
- Lost nearly all of it

2 weeks from losing my house + no income. Oops.

3/ I am going to assume you are in it for the money rather than the tech. Yeah, you might Tweet about the amazing blockchaining of cross-border payments and oracles yadda yadda...really, you are in it to make money.

If you are really in it for the tech, go and build something.

4/ Okay, so if you want to make money, trading is super hard, you are trading against:
- Better traders than you
- People who can move markets
- Unknown information

And if you are trading with leverage you might blow up your account with the volatility.

5/ If you are not trading, you are investing. Okay, so what are you investing in?

I made the decision that the crypto with the best opportunity of existing in 10 years is #Bitcoin:
- Solves a genuine problem
- The right tech
- A proven track record

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महर्षि कश्यप की तेरह पत्नियां थीं।लेकिन विनता व कद्रु नामक अपनी दो पत्नियों से उन्हे विशेष लगाव था।एक दिन महर्षि आनन्दभाव में बैठे थे कि तभी वे दोनों उनके समीप आकर उनके पैर दबाने लगी।


प्रसन्न होकर महर्षि कश्यप बोले,"मुझे तुम दोनों से विशेष लगाव है, इसलिए यदि तुम्हारी कोई विशेष इच्छा हो तो मुझे बताओ। मैं उसे अवश्य पूरा करूंगा ।"

कद्रू बोली,"स्वामी! मेरी इच्छा है कि मैं हज़ार पुत्रों की मां बनूंगी।"
विनता बोली,"स्वामी! मुझे केवल एक पुत्र की मां बनना है जो इतना बलवान हो की कद्रू के हज़ार पुत्रों पर भारी पड़े।"
महर्षि बोले,"शीघ्र ही मैं यज्ञ करूंगा और यज्ञ के उपरांत तुम दोनो की इच्छाएं अवश्य पूर्ण होंगी"।


महर्षि ने यज्ञ किया,विनता व कद्रू को आशीर्वाद देकर तपस्या करने चले गए। कुछ काल पश्चात कद्रू ने हज़ार अंडों से काले सर्पों को जन्म दिया व विनता ने एक अंडे से तेजस्वी बालक को जन्म दिया जिसका नाम गरूड़ रखा।जैसे जैसे समय बीता गरुड़ बलवान होता गया और कद्रू के पुत्रों पर भारी पड़ने लगा


परिणामस्वरूप दिन प्रतिदिन कद्रू व विनता के सम्बंधों में कटुता बढ़ती गयी।एकदिन जब दोनो भ्रमण कर रहीं थी तब कद्रू ने दूर खड़े सफेद घोड़े को देख कर कहा,"बता सकती हो विनता!दूर खड़ा वो घोड़ा किस रंग का है?"
विनता बोली,"सफेद रंग का"।
तो कद्रू बोली,"शर्त लगाती हो? इसकी पूँछ तो काली है"।