Alex Krainer & Mads Palsvig discussion

About Alex Krainer:

Alex is the founder of Krainer Analytics and creator of I-System Trend Following. He has worked as a market analyst, researcher, trader and hedge fund manager since 1996. Alex was born and raised in a socialist regime of former Yugoslavia, under one-party communist rule. As a 17-year old he joined a student exchange program and took up his university studies there, ultimately transferring to Switzerland on a scholarship where he completed a degree in Business and Economics. From Switzerland his path led him to Venezuela where he lived for a year and experienced his first banking crisis in 1994 when 9 of Venezuela’s 16 largest banks failed and brought the country’s economy to a grinding halt. The same year he returned to Croatia and joined the military where he served through 1995 during the last phases of Croatia’s war of independence. In 1996, upon discharge from the military, Alex took employment at an oil trading company in Monaco. In 1998 he became the head of risk and CEO in 2000. Alex had originated the firm’s research and development program in market analysis and application of neural networks and artificial intelligence in trading of financial and commodities markets. By 2007 Alex launched his own investment management business and was among the small minority of managers who generated positive investment returns (+27%) during the 2008 financial crisis. Over the following six years, his fund outperformed the Dow Jones Credit Suisse index of Blue Chip commodity futures trading funds. In 2011 Alex Joined Lee Robinson’s Altana Wealth to manage the firm’s inflation hedging strategy. In 2019 Alex created Altana Wealth’s systematic portfolio allocation strategy designed to bridge the gap between technology and finance. In more recent years, Alex also busied himself as an author. He published his first book “Mastering Uncertainty in Commodities Trading” in 2015. In 2021 this book was selected as #1 on Financial-Expert.co.uk’s list of “The 5 Best Commodities Books for Investors and Traders.” In 2017 he published “The Grand Deception” which is available exclusively from the RedPill Press. In 2021 he published “Alex Krainer’s Trend Following Bible.”

Mads Palsvig is a former investment banker from Credit Suisse First Boston, Barclays Bank and Morgan Stanley. He specialized in trading all fixed income products, focusing on Government Bonds and derivatives on those. He advised central banks and ministries of Finance on what they could do to finance their bond issuance at the lowest possible yield in order to save taxpayer money.

The last ten years Mads has dedicated to studying, politics and activism. He started a political movement/party in June 2016 with the main objective to take back the privilege to issue the monetary base in Denmark to the people. He started the demonstrations against smart meters and the roll out of 5G in 2018. He has been one of the main organizers in the resistance against the corona lock downs and started the “pots and pans” demonstration against the Danish Law on Epidemic.

Now Mads is working on economic tax reforms that will remove poverty and ensure everybody a life in dignity with economic security. The goal is to implement these ideas globally.

Mads Palsvig has a Masters Degree in Law from Copenhagen University and a Bachelor in Finance from Copenhagen Business School.

Mads Palsvig lives in Denmark with his wife. They have three grown up children and a grandson.