Garys Economics How to be the best trader in the world
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Sep 14, 2025 Dive into the world of trading, where intuition meets economic forecasting. Discover how betting on economic destruction can lead to success, and learn to identify what the crowd gets wrong. Explore the challenges and emotional highs of trading, along with the frustrations of a meritocratic field where policy often ignores traders' insights. Gain perspectives on why trading can't change the world but can inform it, and hear uplifting thoughts on collective action and responsible economics that aim for a better future.
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Trading As Economic Forecasting
- Trading is economic forecasting: you bet on what market prices imply about future outcomes.
- Prices encode collective predictions and you profit by correctly shifting those probabilities.
Exploit Mispriced Probabilities
- Bet more when the market underestimates probability and payoffs are large.
- Size your stake relative to how much the market has discounted the outcome.
Rewards For Contrarian Correctness
- Markets reward being right when everyone else is wrong, especially on neglected drivers.
- That incentive surfaces truths that other institutions often ignore.
