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There's nothing more important than having a vision for how you want to contribute to humanity.
Square One is the result of tireless hours of work with one goal in mind- to progress our understanding of the monetary system.
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A $65 trillion 'blind spot'!
Economists and financial professionals are at least 80 years behind in understanding the monetary system.​
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While as citizens we have to pay for this ignorance, as investors we can profit from it.
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​​“We agree with your analysis... There is nothing we can do. Vanguard and Blackrock own the regulatory apparatus. If we raised the alarm, all we’d do is get fired. We have to wait for the event.”
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~ International Monetary Fund, in response to a presentation on the dangers of passive investing
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Large financial institutions like Blackrock and Vanguard control the financial system. As a result, financial markets have drastically changed in recent years. The 'old school' idea that market prices are a function of fundamental value is dangerously outdated.
In modern markets, only 10% of trading activity is related to "fundamental value". The rest is now simply related to "passive" flows, options hedging, and algorithmic trading. Fortunately, this provides an incredible opportunity for those who understand these dynamics.
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For years, we have been told that 'no one' can beat the market and that the best anyone can do is passively invest to earn ~7% a year.
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This is complete nonsense. It is also an insult to anyone living paycheck to paycheck, to whom these returns are far from sufficient.
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The truth is that the market will offer numerous life changing opportunities; you simply need to understand the mechanics of the market and how to capitalize on these moments.
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This is not to say that there is any "cheat code": there is always risks to investing. We are dealing with probabilities, not certainties.
The whole game is about maximizing the probabilities in your favor and taking advantage when opportunities present themselves.
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Professional quality data, expert analysis, and news most relevant to investors.
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High-quality data has long been reserved for the financial elites, costing over $100,000 for monthly reports.
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At Square One, we compile our access to multiple sources of professional quality data to present this to readers at a fraction of the cost.
Simply presenting data is not enough though. In truth, most of the people writing these "professional" reports do not even understand how to draw proper inferences from the data they have collected.
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The advantage for our readers thus comes not simply from the data presented, but from our expert analysis that helps make sense of the overall "story" being told by the data.​​​​​
Square One Story
Hedge fund managers make millions a year, and most have absolutely no idea how the monetary system works and have no ability to "beat the market". This was a point famously made by Warren Buffet decades ago, and it's as true today as it was back then.
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Who am I though, and what entitles me to say this?
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My name is Zack Cameron, and I spent years advising some of the top macro hedge fund managers in the world.
Prior to this, I attended graduate school at the London School of Economics (a top 3 university in the world), where I won an award for a university-wide Monetary Policy competition (judged by Sir Charles Bean). Before LSE, I attended Loyola Marymount University, where I graduated top of my class and served as the Head Asian Economics writer for a national honors society journal.
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Your Advantage
This is what studying macroeconomics at a 'top-tier' university looks like: economics and finance are extremely complex and these fields attract the most brilliant minds in the world. You will simply not outcompete the "Street" by doing valuations more effectively or by utilizing the trading charts commonly propagated online. The data, quantitative abilities and industry knowledge of the Street is simply too advanced.
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However, this does not mean that you can't achieve returns significantly higher than the average hedge fund- you simply need to understand the weak points of the modern financial / economic bureaucracy and how to take advantage.
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'Quants' (math specialists) and industry experts (valuation specialists) are a dime a dozen; however, there are still only a few people in the world that understand how the monetary system operates. This may sound very esoteric at present, but at Square One we will learn what exactly this means (and why it is), as well as how we can take advantage.