How to make money when world leaders do crazy things and the markets are gyrating

So how do you make money when world leaders keep doing crazy things, making announcements that send the markets gyrating up and down all over the place? I had this great question from one of my readers subscribers today and I thought I would record a quick video to talk about that because, you know, a lot of people understand how to make money in bull markets. The best way, incidentally to make money in bull markets is with a trend, a trend following system on the long side that holds the strong stocks as they rally through the bull market. And then when the stocks stop moving up and they start moving down, the primary trend is over, you get out and you move on to the next stock. A lot of people also understand how to make money in bear markets, which is shorting stocks, which are weak. But typically in a bear market, you want to short not on weakness. You want to short after a rally. And you short after a rally because in bear markets it's really volatile. And the.

The rallies in a bear market will typically stop you out if you're entering on weakness. So far better to enter on a rally, short in a bear market and then ride the downswing. But how do you make money in an environment where the markets aren't really moving in any particular direction, but announcements and events at a global scale are causing big gyrations from one day to the next? Well, the best way to make money in that sort of environment is with a mean reversion system. Because what mean reversion does is it enters in the opposite direction to extreme moves. And when the market is skittish because of what's happening at a geopolitical level, you know, world leaders, negotiations, trade wars, tariffs, those sorts of announcements, the market gyrates dramatically from one day to the next. And each move either up or down is typically an overreaction. And so, so the best way to profit from that systematically with mean reversion is you have a system which buys on a rapid decline in the market and then very quickly sells after the bounce back. And then also if the market rallies very, very heavily over a short space of time, you can short and make money on the correction. Now, mean reversion is psychologically pretty difficult to trade. I'm not afraid to say it. Trend following is pretty easy because you've got a long period of time where the market is moving in your favor. You get lots of positive feedback and all of that. But mean reversion, you have to enter when it feels the absolute worst to enter. You're going long when the market is panicking and you're going short when the market is excited and happy. Now that sounds obvious, right? We all know that the market kind of axioms that you've got to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful. But when it comes to trading and your account and your money, I know that that is way more difficult than it sounds. So if you're going to trade mean reversion, you have to have the utmost faith in your system. So you need to have back tested that system, have tested it for robustness and sensitivity, tested all of the variables. And if you don't understand what all of that means, then private message me and I'll talk to you about how to back test your trading system correctly and how I can help you out with that. But you must follow your mean reversion system exactly. And you have to do it in a really timely fashion because in markets like this, where the markets are gyrating up and down, the moves happen really, really quickly. So if you miss that entry, chances are half the move will be over by the time you get in. So if you're going to enter, if your system says enter at the open, you better be there at the open to place your order and get that trade execute right away because the bounces happen really quickly. Now I've got a mean reversion system at the moment which is just fantastic. It's part of the trading system collection and it's doing really, really well in this market environment. And what I'm finding is that when I'm getting a buy signal, typically the very next day, I'm getting the sell signal to exit with a profit. So these mean reversion trades are happening really, really quickly. But, but that's how you make money when world leaders are doing crazy things, when you get tweets from presidents about negotiations and about the economic conditions and about interest rates, and it sends the markets up and down in a really skittish fashion. This is how you got to trade. You're not trend trading, you're not swing trading, you're trading mean reversion because that's the way to catch those rapid moves up and down in the market. So I hope that helps. My name's Adrian Read, coming to you from John Day in Oregon. And we're on our way in the rv, which is just over there between.

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