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BAML: Be A Trump Contrarian Investor, As Managers Pile Into USD And Banks

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Michael Hartnet, chief investment strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, does not want his clients to be institutional sheep. Taking a decided statistical look at institutional market opinions in a January 17 report, Trump contrarian trades emerge as for some stock sectors the Trump rally might be coming to an end. In other words, with an inauguration approaching at the end of the week, buy the rumor, sell the fact and act like a Contrarian trader.

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Mark Melin

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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