Issued by Labis Michalopoulos, CFA

mail: labis@quantomental.com

Editorial:

An accurate forecast is what is feeding this business. A forecast that contradicts with the established trend and pays off, has an even better taste. I was arguing in favor of long EURUSD trades since the 81^st issue published on 24 August. The call failed during the first week, but keeping my ground and continue supporting the long EUR trades is starting to pay off.

I am positioning in favor of the continuation of the risk-on mode, with USD falling and EUR-AUD-CAD and equities advancing, during the next week.

Major events of last week:

• USA-China: The week began with China submitting a formal complain to the WTO against the USA and ended with new round of talks have been announced from the state Chinese TV. “Substantial progress” was the selection of words to describe it.
• EU-China-USA: Mike Pence criticized Germany for not spending enough on defense, some days before the visit of Angela Merkel to Beijing.
• South Korea-Japan: The relations deteriorate further. Note that S. Korea used all the available options to save the trade relations (i.e. complaints at the WTO, US mediation, boy-cottage of Japanese products)
• Iran is set to depart further from the 2015 nuclear deal. USA will penalize companies that do business with the Iranian Space Agency.
• An Indian mission failed to soft land on the moon.

• EU politics: The anti-EU, anti-immigration “Alternative for Germany” party did not manage to win the two state elections in Saxony and Branderburg. In the UK, Boris Johnson’s coalition government does not enjoy any more the Parliament’s majority. UK parliament voted a bill that blocks the possibility of a no-deal Brexit and asks for an extension of the 31^st of October deadline. Yet, the parliament rejected Boris Johnson’s bill for snap elections. Meanwhile UK Chancellor announced a big spending package.

• Chief Executive of Hong Kong, has formally addressed the citizens of Hong Kong. She counter-argued the 5 key demands of protests and pledged for the ending of violence and the initiation of dialogue. She announced (i) the full withdrawal of the “Fugitive Offenders Bill” that has sparked the protests (a bill that was suspended since June 15, but was never withdrawn due to China’s disapproval) (ii) the support of the work of the Independent Police Complaints Council (iii) the government’s invitation to academics to review the public discontent that extends beyond the bill and covers social justice, housing and land supply, income distribution, social justice. Protests have non come to an end. Fitch has downgraded the Hong Kong debt.
• Argentina imposed capital controls and Greece got rid of its own capital controls imposed since 2015.
• Cryptos: Total market cap at $268bn +8% w/w. (-30% from the 2019 high, -67% from the all time high).
• Macros: US factory orders and US unit labor cost increased. US Non-farm payrolls was 130K, way smaller than the past reading, but enough to provide full opportunities for young people entering the workforce. Both the Australian and the Canadian Central Banks left their rates unchanged.

Major events of next week:

• OPEC’s monthly report is expected on Wednesday
• Monetary meeting of the ECB on Thursday. Bazooka easing is within expectations.

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For qualified perspective clients of the advisory service:

GIPS standards are all about full, fair, consistent and comparable presentation of actual returns of the past. No models, no back-testing, no promises. I am doing that. I am publishing in real time, via a 3^rd party, my actual returns since inception where one can see the most strict, comparable, revealing metric of the industry: the monthly Sharpe ratio.

My current monthly Sharpe ratio stands at 0.27 as can be found at www.forexfactory.com/dxmix

My current annual Sharpe ratio is 0.27 multiplied by √12 = 0.27 x 3.46=0.93 Annual Sharpe Ratio

The numbers used to stand at 0.5 monthly Sharpe ratio and 1.73 annual Sharpe ratio up until the August of 2019 for 45 consecutive months. On 24 August 2018, I mistakenly ordered to open a position 10 times bigger that I am used to. My equity level is currently back on track, but my statistics are no longer as impressive as they used to be. My 54 months, since inception, monthly Sharpe Ratio (that includes the leveraged AUDUSD trade) stands at 0.27, equal to 0.93 Annual Sharpe Ratio.

I cannot claim that I will be performing with the return of my best months, but I can tell that I will hover around my average returns. Claiming with a 95% confidence, that my next month* return will be within my average monthly return ± 2 standard deviations is a well educated statement I can make anytime.

My average monthly* return ± 2 standard deviations is from -16.54% up to 20.49%

My average monthly* return ± 2 stadard deviations becomes -5.74% up to 9.47% , excluding the 4 months effect of the one time mistake trade.

* the monthly returns are the actual returns within a month. They are not presented on annualized basis.