A 20 year institutional investor learning about the crypto space.
19 Jul 2021 1 minute read 3 comments NZFX
I never knew just how messed up the global banking system was until I moved to a foreign country and tried to get access to my own money. If ever there was a process that needs to be replaced by the crypto revolution, this is it. When I want to tr...
14 Jul 2021 2 minute read 0 comments NZFX
Digital currencies are coming. It’s not a matter of if, but rather when and which type. Right now, despite heroic efforts by developers and early adopters of decentralized crypto, once central banks start introducing their digital currencies the...
12 Jul 2021 3 minute read 1 comment NZFX
In my previous post, I laid out a small handful of reasons for why governments might want to let private crypto take hold and a few reasons why they might not. This is pure speculation, but count me among those that think they will do all they can t...
11 Jul 2021 2 minute read 2 comments NZFX
The commentary below is not intended to be support for any one political group, but rather an observation of the system at large. I offer these opinions now as we seem to be on the eve of many governments adopting CBDC’s (central bank digital curren...
10 Jul 2021 3 minute read 3 comments NZFX
Following up on prior posts where we built a simple trading model in excel... As promised, we are now expanding into the concept of portfolio risk. Why is this important? Each of us likely holds a variety of different crypto currencies. A simple b...
18 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments NZFX
Price is what you pay; value is what you get. I love the quote above as it really does frame what I am after as an investor. I'm sure I'm not alone in saying I absolutely hate overpaying for something. Once the realization sets in, the pain tends...
17 Jun 2021 4 minute read 0 comments NZFX
Following up from my previous post, we are building a simple trading model in excel for Bitcoin based on simple moving averages. I picked this type of model as moving averages are used so much in technical analysis, which seems to dominate the cryp...
16 Jun 2021 5 minute read 0 comments NZFX
Give a person a fish and they'll have food for a day. Teach a person how to fish and they'll eat for a lifetime. I understand, dear reader, that you are bombarded with reading options. Thus, I want to make sure you get the most value possible...
15 Jun 2021 1 minute read 12 comments NZFX
In my last post, I introduced readers to a quantitative tool used to evaluate the risk adjusted performance of an asset relative to its own history. This is useful because it allows us to compare different assets with different risk/return profiles...
14 Jun 2021 2 minute read 0 comments NZFX
I’m a recent crypto convert who completely missed what crypto was all about for the first decade or so of its existence. By way of background, for the first 10 years of my career, I worked in the capital markets division of what is commonly view...
