Is Earnings Really Driving Price in Equities?

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We're going to get into specific bets and some of the thesis that you've outlined on Twitter in a bit. But before that, I love to talk about your investment process first because I think a lot of equities investing probably involves things like Excel modeling or is in crypto. It's still not entirely clear of those things even drive price. What moves price? So how much of your previous job can you actually carry to your daily process today? And what parts of that do you think can be discarded at least for now? Yeah. Well, just to start, I think that earnings in...

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2022 was one of the toughest years to be in crypto with even professional investors suffering from 80-90% losses.

However, crypto hedge fund North Rock Digital reportedly navigated 2022's crises nimbly, and its founder quickly rose to prominence on Twitter for his timely and decisive market commentary.

Today, we have Hal, Founder of North Rock Digital, to share with us:

His transition from equities to crypto
Identifying investable narratives and planning the trade
1 vertical that Hal is looking at right now

Host: Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi . Not financial advice.

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) – Introduction to Hal

(00:05:21) – North Rock Digital’s thesis

(00:11:13) – Equities versus Crypto investing

(00:15:36) – Identifying investable narratives

(00:17:58) – How Hal played the ETH merge

(00:22:26) – Thesis on Short BTC Long ETH

(00:26:56) – Positioning, sizing and exiting trades

(00:34:36) – 1 vertical that Hal is bullish on

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Hal Press’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NorthRockLP

North Rock Digital’s Website: https://northrockdigital.com/

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