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Mar 9, 2022Liked by Brent Donnelly

Thanks for the content Brent. I actually used to get your letter via Wally T who was my boss at RIM back in the day. Read it throughout the financial crash. Spot on about options. I had a bunch of Lehman puts but they expired one month too early.

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Mar 9, 2022Liked by Brent Donnelly

Thank you for the serries. It's been consitently high quality content which I've thoroughly enjoyed. From personal experience, I'd say even if I have a strong macro conviction, choosing the right markets & instruments to express that idea is equally important as forming the thesis. Do I express my macro view in equities, FX, fixed income or commodities. Futures or options or some funky structures. In my opinion, this is part of the trading edge (together with position sizing, risk management and discipline). Thanks again for the insight.

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Great stuff Brent, tons of learning until now and the curve steepens every day!

I am using techniclas a lot in my trading, EW too.

Hopping on this one.

Breaking 24th jan low of 36.03 will terminate the triangle thesis so a tick lower will be my SL.

Target 40.71. RR ratio 1.9 looks ok to me. Good luck!

ps loved the song

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Mar 9, 2022Liked by Brent Donnelly

Really enjoy the content. Always an enjoyable read. Keep it up mate

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Mar 9, 2022Liked by Brent Donnelly

Brent if I go all in with aces preflop and lose that is just part of the game. Your logic has been sounds and I enjoy reading 50 in 50 as much as I enjoy AMFX. Keep it up!

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Mar 9, 2022Liked by Brent Donnelly

Brent if I go all in with aces preflop and lose that is just part of the game. Your logic has been sounds and I enjoy reading 50 in 50 as much as I enjoy AMFX. Keep it up!

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Thank you Brent for the nice options topic. You forgot the trade template ;)

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Great content and very relatable to me as I had made the same mistake of "being too blasé" about the Russian-Ukrainian war, and the reason was largely the same as I had faded geopolitical moves through most of my macro career, and especially in this case, basing most of my strategy on the Crimea episode. Now my thoughts though, are that I should have been able to foresee this. Ukraine is a much larger territory than Crimea, so the conflict is on a much larger scale. Ukraine had publicly made known its desire to join NATO / EU, so fierce resistance could have been expected (perhaps not to this scale). So I've been thinking: "Was I too complacent in assessing this event due to the Crimea episode? If I had dug deeper, could I have seen the signs? Was this mistake avoidable? And was 'fading geopolitics coz such events (mostly) always fades' a lazy mistake? Or is this just 20/20 hindsight?" Appreciate your thoughts.

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