As anti-Trump protests stretch into their seventh day – and racial hate crimes are reported on the rise alongside protestor arrests – the search for who is behind the protests continues. This weekend Fox News doubled down on claims that international financier George Soros was directly behind the protests amid a lack of documentation to support the claim. The charge is being again emphatically denied by the Soros camp, adding to a previous denial on November 11.
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
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