Innovative Strategies for Financial Institutions
The Practical Contrarian is reimagining the ways hedge funds, family offices and other financial institutions make critical decisions using a blend of proprietary methodologies, analysis and data.
Our Services
We provide a wide range of consulting services focused on unlocking new potential, mitigating risk and other guidance aimed at optimizing performance for our clients.
Proprietary Technical Analysis
Discover the ways our methodologies can empower your financial institution
Portfolio Management
Ongoing management services to help you see what’s around the next turn
Asset Allocation
We guide clients down the path of deciding what to invest in and when is an opportune time
Risk Management
Mitigate risk by identifying potential issues on the horizon vs the front door
Proprietary Technical Analysis
We work with clients to listen and learn about their needs and goals then implement our thoughtful, thorough and disciplined approach by applying first principles of market function to various portfolios.
Navigating the Bottoming Process
Applying proprietary technical analysis to securities of different asset classes to identify the bottoming process for the purpose of initiating and building investment positions at opportune times.
Navigating the Bottoming Process
Applying proprietary technical analysis to securities of different asset classes to identify the bottoming process for the purpose of initiating and building investment positions at opportune times.
Recognizing Terminal Extremes
We specialize in using our proprietary methodologies to identify when the market price of a security has reached a terminal extreme where the strength of the trend is becoming directionally unsustainable and a reversion to the mean appears more probable.
Opportune Entry & Exit Points
Using proprietary price patterns to identify clear shifts in control between the bears and the bulls for identifying opportune entry and exit points, and we provide consulting services to give you a competitive edge.
Opportune Entry & Exit Points
Using proprietary price patterns to identify clear shifts in control between the bears and the bulls for identifying opportune entry and exit points, and we provide consulting services to give you a competitive edge.
Discovering Critical Trends
Let’s work together to first identify what’s important to you then discover ways to harness data around critical trends that will help your financial institution make the best decisions in the future.
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