On today’s episode guest host Chris Solarz speaks with Chris Cole, founder and CIO of Artemis Capital Management, Matthew Sargaison, co-CEO at AHL at Man Investments, and Dan Stone, co-founder of Ionic Capital. With these three world class volatility experts on the show, we’ll be going deep into the current state of volatility, the ramifications of United States quantitative easing, as well as the economic effects on the market of various social movements around the world.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• How our guests got interested in the financial industry and data analytics
• The state of the market now and where it is headed in the future
• Why Dan sees the Quantitative Easing and its effect on market changes hurting long-term volatility
• The hidden risks to the markets from the rise of populism
• Dan’s “top five longball macro themes” and what we can learn from them
• Where Matthew sees opportunities in volatility today
• What it has been like as a long-vol trader for the last ten years, when you are up against the World’s Central Banks
• Why you don’t have to put your “end-of-the-world” hat on…just yet

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