Punk Rock Traders was started by former Fundstrat staff to provide high-risk, high-reward trades to sophisticated investors looking to beat the market. Much of Wall Street is geared toward wealth preservation whereas we are geared toward wealth augmentation. We want to help individuals with market knowledge use derivatives to achieve long-term wealth. Some of our trades are high-risk options trades that simply aim for high returns, and others are strategies to benefit from stock ownership and even to achieve synthetic compounding. We are a community of investors that tries to share successful strategies, provide successful trades, and superior macro analysis. We do not aim to educate retail investors. Be aware, that this is the deep end of the pool, and engaging in the types of trades we recommend contains a very high risk of losing some or all of your initial investment.
Chris Robb is our Head of Research. He initially had a career in politics and public policy and then moved over to Wall Street when he got a job as Fundstrat’s Senior Editor and Vice President in 2020. He wrote the Signal from Noise column and did Fed coverage and the weekly notes. More recently, Chris was a contributor to the world’s largest investment community, Seeking Alpha. Chris focuses on company management, fundamentals, earnings, contrarian investing, and the effects of geopolitical developments on risk assets. Chris is dedicated to using derivatives and leverage to boost the effectiveness of painstakingly justified directional calls. He wants to focus trades less on the traditional hedging and risk mitigation, and more on amping up returns as much as possible. Hence our name, Punk Rock Traders. Like the increased volume of Punk Rock music, our trades aren’t for everyone. But we purposely make them high-risk, high return to service a customer that is typically neglected by Wall Street and left to fend for themselves with often dismal results.
Financial markets have evolved far quicker than research infrastructure has been able to keep up with. Most of Wall Street simply is too afraid, for compliance reasons and reputational reasons, to give you the types of trades that can help you handily beat the market. Of course, part of this is for very good reason. Many people are risk averse and don’t want to risk their entire investment. We can also show you how to do some of that, but mostly, we’re interested in high-octane ideas that can produce triple-digit returns. But remember, you can also easily lose you your entire investment. Even if you’re directionally correct. We stay away from trades with unlimited downside loss. We always invite those who disagree with us to take the other side of the trade, which we will often provide in addition to our recommendation. We are shameless in admitting it. We are alpha dogs, looking for nothing else but to beat the market, whatever the risk, whatever the cost. Proceed with caution. Punk Rock Traders are not for the faint of heart or for novice investors. We are begging you to understand the Greeks thoroughly before you even consider making our trades.
Periodically we aim to invite outside Wall Street experts, successful traders, and subject matter experts to discuss markets, strategies, and provide our readers with great content to complement their market knowledge. We will be filtering and inviting our initial members to ensure our community keeps up with its goals. We will not be selling educational classes like many competitors; we are only selling our trade ideas, content, and analysis.