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Brian Kelly is Founder and CEO of Kanundrum Inc. a private investment company and research boutique focused on providing investment insight to instividual investors. He is the editor and publisher of The Surf Report, a daily investment newsletter where he uses his 15 years trading experience to identify the game changing events which set off the successive waves of investor enthusiasm and panic.

He is a frequent guest on CNBC’s Fast Money and Street Signs and was a co-founder of MKM Partners.

He received his BS in Finance from the University of Vermont, while also being able “squeeze-in” at least 3 days of skiing per week. After a year in the real world, making cold calls as a retail stockbroker, he decided to retreat to the safety of academia and received his MBA from Babson Graduate School of Business.

Then back to the real world again, where he spent the next 10 years trading equities for pension funds, mutual funds and hedge funds. He specialized in risk arbitrage, pairs trading and relative value strategies.

While in the real world he co-founded MKM Partners, a brokerage firm that caters to the institutional equity trading community.

He is the author of Blowing Bubbles: How to Identify and Profit from Market Bubbles and he publishes the blog “Perception is Reality”.

What the future holds is unknowable, but hopefully he will still be able to “squeeze-in” some time on the slopes.

Brian Kelly's Company

Kanundrum Research At Kanundrum Research we combine macro strategy, value and momentum investing with the principles of chaos theory to produce insightful and profitable research.

Our Tools

Inter-Market Dynamics – Implied Volatility – Fractal Geometry – Price to Cash Flow – Earnings Yield – Return on Assets – Implied Volatility Bands – Technical Analysis – Macroeconomics

Our Product

The Surf Report -

Our daily macro strategy report covering the world’s financial markets, finding the ripples that turn into waves. Each day this insightful piece examines the inter-market relationships that may have impact on the global financial markets. Through the use of implied volatility we quantify the markets movements and identify the initial conditions that lead to profitable investment themes.
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Brian Kelly's Blog

Perception is Reality Perception is Reality rejects the central tenet of the efficient market hypothesis that the markets reflect all known and unknown information.

Reality or “truth” in the financial markets has an ever changing definition. The chaotic nature of new information renders it unknowable, and therefore market participants can only act on their perception of information. When enough investors perceive information in the same way it can often lead to that perception becoming reality.

The financial markets are the manifestation of the push and pull between reality and perception. Therefore, successful investing must start with market perception.

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Brian Kelly's Book

Blowing Bubbles Blowing Bubbles is a practical guide to making money in the financial markets. Written by veteran investor and Wall Street entrepreneur, Brian Kelly, Blowing Bubbles presents a unique way of understanding financial market bubbles. Many books on investing focus on the hot new indicator and can be inaccessibly complex. Brian Kelly imparts his years of experience, triumphs and errors, in an easy to understand model of how financial markets work. Both the novice investor and seasoned veteran will be able to put the concepts to work immediately.

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Snapshot
  • Trader
  • Trading frequency: Weekly
Interests:
  • Bonds
  • ETFs
  • Forex
  • Options
  • Real Estate and REITs
  • Stocks - long