Philippe Gijsels is chief strategy officer at a European bank, and his book is The New World Economy in 5 Trends. Mark “Moose” McGrath and I asked him how investors can reorient in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous market.
Discipline in VUCA
Philippe stresses a disciplined approach with objective rules. That means letting winning trades run and avoiding impulsive moves. Human behavior still drives many trading decisions.
Reflexivity
Prices and the real economy feed each other, an idea George Soros called reflexivity. We talk about adaptive strategies, Elliott Wave and zero-day options in today’s markets.
Learning across fields
Jim Simons and his team blended mathematics, economics and history. Philippe sees the same need for an interdisciplinary, adaptive mindset, from blockchain to currency markets. He brings in Karl Popper’s falsifiability and Boyd’s OODA loop.
This episode is not investment advice.
Which rule would keep you from your next impulsive decision?
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Written by Ponch Rivera with AI assistance in production. The full conversation is in the player below.