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BAML Frets Over Election Uncertainty, Politicization of Fed

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Mark Melin
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Election uncertainty - Confirmation that one lives inside an alternative universe may have occurred when a US Presidential candidate woke up in the middle of a night’s sleep last Friday morning to engage in a damaging Tweeter storm. It wasn’t just that the odd hour, but his actions did not appear to further his cause, whatever that may be.

Forget about the insensitivities and vulgarity, and try and forget about an 3 AM nuclear explosion potential. From an investment standpoint, more jaw-dropping was the lack of strategic insight and disregard for winning typically observed in a successful businessperson. This is all creating election uncertainty.

Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump

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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.