Founder, Market Thinker

Mark Tinker

Mark Tinker has over 35 years experience as an investor, market strategist and economist. Having spent more than 20 years as a sell side strategist and being top rated on numerous occasions and surveys he moved to investment management in 2006 to run global equity portfolios in London and subsequently moved to Hong Kong in 2013 to help establish an Investment Management business for a top 20 international asset manager. He first started writing investment weeklies for his employers in 1989, developing a style characterised under the title Market Thinking and has been a regular commentator and presenter on CNBC, Bloomberg and other business channels, where his approach of rationalising market behaviour rather than making short term predictions on high frequency market data provides a welcome balance to his client audience.

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Making Sense of the Narrative

Macroeconomics

<ul><li>The ‘year-end’ book squaring ahead of Thanksgiving caused a mid-month wobble around the November options expiry, which in turn caused some panic among leveraged traders, albeit not of the April variety.</li><li>The FOMO trades of unprofitable tech and everything Crypto related were hit particularly hard and while the $ briefly moved back above 100 on the trade weighted index, the pain trade at the broader market level appeared to have gone by end month.</li><li>A Rip Van Winkle analysis of November would have concluded that nothing much happened, but a lot did.</li></ul>

The ‘year-end’ book squaring ahead of Thanksgiving caused a mid-month wobble around the November options expiry, which in turn caused some panic among leveraged traders, albeit not of the April variety.The FOMO trades of unprofitable tech and everything Crypto related were hit particularly hard and while the $ briefly moved back above 100 on the trade weighted index, the pain trade at the broader market level appeared to have gone by end month.A Rip Van Winkle analysis of November would have concluded that nothing much happened, but a lot did.

Un-Tethered from reality?