“Trading is a skillset, and it’s almost entirely algorithmic at this point. If you’re not using machine learning, artificial intelligence, and sentiment analysis on social media, you’re going to get burnt.” - Jeremy Gardner

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Most of us aren’t The Wolf Of Wall Street.

Sure, we could handle the parties and excess of money, but the lifestyle of a great trader is something you don’t walk into. For most of us, investing means putting money in long-term value plays and checking the progress along the way. It is not the sleepless nights of caffeine-binging, watching the charts and making the hundreds of trades day in and day out.

On today’s episode of The Bitcoin Crypto Mentor Mastermind Show, we are joined by Jeremy Gardner, founder of the decentralized prediction blockchain Augur, which at a market-cap of $300 million is said to be the most undervalued crypto-project in Silicon Valley. His expertise in crypto-trading is unprecedented, as he shares his insights today on how to approach investing vs. trading.

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“If you accept the view that this technology will change our perception of how value is exchanged, then it doesn’t matter whether it goes down or up in the short-term.” - Jeremy Gardner

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Points to Keep In Mind

• Rebalancing your portfolio requires checking your profits against the thesis of your investment
• When investing in tech, have a thesis about both the technology and the value of the technology
• • Unless your thesis on the technology changes (as opposed to the value of the technology) you should always be rebalancing your portfolio
• The entire crypto market is based off speculative value
• Businesses are either parasitic (exploiting others) or symbiotic (helping others) or anywhere in between
• Ripple is a blockchain designed to transfer large sums of money between financial institutions with more liquidity (helps banks be more honest/transparent)
• Bitcoin is an asset class that has an unprecedented rate of appreciation
• Algorithmic trading is the only way to trade
• Only invest in long-term value
• Iota is a very scalable blockchain for Internet Of Things (IOT) and supply chain
• Be skeptical of any $1 billion + crypto company valuation without real world application
• Quantum over Neo because of real-world application and East Asian investment thesis
• Steem is a crypto Reddit, runs on the Eos network which can handle mass transaction
• Always try to be the dumbest person in the room
• Net neutrality will just cause a Web 3.0