2024 March

Harry introduces the concept of the “circular flow” which explains the basis upon which an economy works and how it links to the real world of borrowing and investment decisions.

2024 Aug

This is an Elliott Wave Analysis Update on BTC, Gold, US Bonds and Rates, the US$, Nasdaq and the S&P

2024 July

Watch the update to the last Elliott Wave video.

2024 June

The video gives a deep dive into the Bitcoin Elliott Wave count and discusses the influence of market cycles in identifying potential turning points.

We also discuss using Elliott Wave Analysis in identifying the possible path for Bitcoin and Ethereum dominance within the crypto space.

Remember, Elliott Wave Analysis is a useful tool to plot potential roadmaps of price. I have used this in practice in my trading career. If you want to learn more, don’t hesitate to contact us at info@o3cacademy.com.

2024 April

Thorsten and I discuss some current market themes including, “how one might look at Equity valuations”. We also look at the current Elliott Wave patterns for S&P500, AAPL, GOLD und US 10Y Yields.

o3c academy will publish its next video on the interest rates topic, “bootstrapping,” later in the week, stay tuned.

You can find more information on Thorsten at https://thetacticalbrief.com/ and watch hours of Grey Market Talks on his YouTube Channel, “the tactical brief.”

2024 April

Another “Grey” Market Talk hosted by Thorsten Wegener where Nic discusses the latest Elliott Wave Analysis on Gold, Silver and GDX (Miners ETF) as well as showing a Gold chart dating back to 1833!

You can see more videos from the “Grey Market Talk” at https://o3cmarkets.com/media/

2024 March

Nic discusses with Thorsten Wegener in the regular weekly chat “The “Grey” Market Talk” (https://thetacticalbrief.com/gray-mar…) how to use Elliott Wave Analysis to build a roadmap for market instruments, for Bitcoin and the S&P 500.

You can see more videos from the “Grey Market Talk” at https://o3cmarkets.com/media/

o3cAcademy will launch more regular updates on markets and analysis using Elliott Wave for other markets, to help educate traders and investors.

2024 May

Harry develops the concepts of interest rate risk further by examining how the estimated movements in a bond price for large interest rate moves by using Modified Duration lead to a more conservative estimate of the gain or loss in the bond. In doing so, he explains the term “Bond Convexity.”

2024 April

Harry discusses interest rate risk by introducing the term “duration.” He explains the difference between Macaulay Duration and Modified Duration and when to use one versus the other. He also discusses immunisation and how to protect portfolios against interest rate changes.

2024 April

Harry explains how to use bootstrapping to determine zero rates and forward rates. This can also be used to begin the search for anomalies versus where you thing forward rates ought to be.

7. O3C Academy Bootstrapping Zero (and Forwards) from YTM

2024 April

Harry gives an introduction to interest rates and a basic explanation of how to understand the various interest rate levels you might get from your bank. This could be useful when making basic decisions on deposit and borrowing. Harry goes through some basic maths and explains the difference between zero rates, forward rates, and discount factors.

In the next video, he will go through a more detailed example using Excel.

2024 April

Here is Part II of the “Where do Rates come from?” topic.

5. O3C Academy Spot-Forward-YTM

2024 SEPT

How should you be thinking when markets just don’t add up.

2024 August

With the VIX Index trading at a high of 65 this week, VIX Futures got to 35 “only.” One of these instruments can be traded while the other is more of a reference. This and more in a discussion about markets and how one could read them.

2024 August

Having called the fallout from the USDYEN in our last video on 17 July, Thorsten and I discuss whether the market predictions of “nothing more to see here” are correct or will linger for months or even longer.

2024 April

Thorsten and I discuss whether the correction is over, earnings, what might impact markets next week, and Gold’s role in portfolios.

June 2023

Today we are making a Deep Dive into the one topic that seems to move markets more than any underlying fundamental condition: Liquidity.
Nic will share his deep knowledge into what he calls the “Plumbing” of the Market. He will explain Treasury General Accounts, Repo & Reverse Repo Facilities, the Fed Balance Sheet and most importantly the interaction between those facilities and their influence on financial markets and why maybe, just maybe, that you can’t trust everything that is put infant of you. At the end Nic answers a viewer question and gives away which Japanese High Tech Glasses Manufacturer he mentioned in our earlier show on Japan.(“Grey” Market talk on the 11-06-23 on Japan)

We round off the series of VAR in this video. The Spreadsheet is available to our clients.

2024 July

This video covers the topic of calculating VAR on a one and two-asset portfolio

2024 July

Harry begins the journey into Risk Management with a 3 Part Series on VAR (Value at Risk) – this isn’t about VAR as used in football matches!

VAR is something that Banks and Asset Managers especially have focussed on to identify Risk in Trading Books and Investment Portfolios.

More and more, you also see Brokers offering Retail Investors a way to look at portfolio risk using VAR.

Please note, that the spreadsheet we have created is not available to everyone, it will be only available to Students of the O3C academy. We hope you can understand why. Nevertheless, the videos explain the calculations in some detail so that you might want to create your own spreadsheet.