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		<title>Macro Trader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Global macro trading has made a huge comeback the last two years as financial markets have completely crumbled.  While most people were long and levered most macro traders were shorting housing, financials, going long and then later short Treasuries and doing all kind of stuff in the commodities space.
In fact in 2008 there were only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://trademacro.com/2009/05/20/macro-trader/</link>
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		<title>Macro Trading 101 Course</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TheMacroTrader.com  is now offering a FREE course on macro trading.  The course covers all of the major macro topics such as definition of Global Macro, asset classes, asset class drivers, models to exploit different asset classes, basic economics, technical analysis, trade management, and risk management.
The course is FREE and all you need to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://trademacro.com/2009/01/14/macro-trading-101-course/</link>
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		<title>Active Beta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[






Active Beta is a term that is not often heard but the concept is often discussed.  In this post at The Macro Trader They discuss how they are implementing the concept of relatively passive, risk controlled, capturing of risk premia.
If you are searching for alpha the post is worth reading, as is the newsletter.
-Trade [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://trademacro.com/2008/05/22/active-beta/</link>
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		<title>The Real OC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[







Ok so we aren&#8217;t talking about Mischa, Adam Brody, or Rachel Bilson.   Nor are we talking about LC, Kristen, Jason, etc. (btw we are embarrased that we even know who these people are).  What we are talking about this time is Orange County or more specifically the treasurer of Orange County.
For a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://trademacro.com/2007/12/05/the-real-oc/</link>
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		<title>OZM Och-Ziff Capital Management Down First Two Days Of Trading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The title says it all.  We are half way through the second day of trading for OZM the IPO of Och-Ziff Capital Management.  Och-Ziff is a large hedge fund company that decided to cash out to the public.    Following FIG and BX OZM has sold off as well and is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://trademacro.com/2007/11/15/ozm-och-ziff-capital-management-down-first-two-days-of-trading/</link>
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		<title>Goldman Sachs Raises $4.5 Billion For Two New Hedge Funds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The title says a lot.  Goldman just raised $4.5 billion for two new hedge funds.  Guess what the funds strategy is?  Credit and Distressed Debt.  What does this tell us?  To me it means that Goldman sees how bad the credit markets really are and see a way to profit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://trademacro.com/2007/11/15/goldman-sachs-raises-45-billion-for-two-new-hedge-funds/</link>
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		<title>Morgan Stanley Buys &gt;20% of Barton Biggs Traxis Partners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Morgan Stanley has purchased a less than 20% stake in Traxis Partners.  The Macro hedge fund started by Barton Biggs.  This follows Morgan Stanley purchases of Avenue Capital, Front Point Partners, and Lansdowne partners in the past year.  They are trying to buy their way into the hedge fund space and so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://trademacro.com/2007/11/14/morgan-stanley-buys-20-of-barton-biggs-traxis-partners/</link>
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		<title>Iluka Up 10% On Ospraie Purchase</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ospraie Management the macro fund ran by Tiger Alumni Dwight Anderson purchased 12% of the Australian mineral sands miner Iluka.  Wednesday on news of the purchase the stock was up 10% in the Australian market.
Ospraie Management is one of the premier Macro Commodity funds out there.  They invest in many things but focus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://trademacro.com/2007/11/14/iluka-up-10-on-ospraie-purchase/</link>
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		<title>Pension Plans Intend On Investing More In Emerging Markets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[GlobalPensions.com says that many pension plans are planning on raising their allocations to Emerging Markets.  Most of the reasoning given is that they have been pleased that the current credit crunch in the United States has not had a very strong effect on the emerging markets.
We think that they are mostly right.  Being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://trademacro.com/2007/11/13/pension-plans-intend-on-investing-more-in-emerging-markets/</link>
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		<title>Changing Direction&#8230;..A Bit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello,
As anyone who has been here is a while has noticed we have not been posting much at all.  We are changing directions with TradeMacro.com.  Going forward this site will be dedicated to educating and informing people about Global Macro Trading.  We will post newsworthy items and educational articles so that you can better understand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://trademacro.com/2007/11/12/changing-directiona-bit/</link>
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