Null Beta Introduction

Dear readers,

We are proud to introduce ourselves, as Null Beta. We are an investment club composed of 5 members with experiences across investment banking, corporate finance, and currency trading. Our mission is to provide others with the necessary tools to succeed within trading, while pushing ourselves every day to learn something new about generating alpha. Through understanding market dynamics and developing trading algorithms, our members establish and build upon analytical skills that would otherwise be left undeveloped in classroom settings.

Null Beta’s mission is to create the maximum level of returns possible, irrespective of the market. Our goal is to create an algorithm that will be able to generate above average returns within the cryptocurrency universe. Our algorithm will be long-short and thus should be neutral to the behavior of the cryptocurrency market.

With that introduction, we now welcome you to the Null Beta blog. This blog will be dedicated to providing insight and analysis on a variety of financial topics, including, but not limited to; Market Trends, Financial Instruments, Mergers and Acquisitions, and specific company analysis. Our goal for this blog is to create an open dialogue about these topics and expand both ours and our readers' understanding of the financial world. We want to deliver detailed posts about financial events, instruments, and our own market opinion.

Our blog will consist of multiple types of posts. Monthly, we will provide recaps of major happenings in the market, and will provide a summary view of the market at large. We will also have individual member posts, where topics of interest of one of the five Null Beta members will be discussed. These posts will be authored by individual members but will be reviewed and challenged by all members of Null Beta before publication. On occasion, Null Beta may have guest columns written by various financial professionals and/or colleagues about a variety of topics. Null Beta will also provide updates on the financial performance of Null Beta funds and may discuss certain strategy changes.

We are pleased to introduce ourselves and our mission. Thank you for reading and we look forward to the dialogues that will exist in the future. Please note that all opinions written on this blog are the opinions of Null Beta, its individual members, and its contributors.

In no way are these the opinions of the organizations that Null Beta’s members represent and should not be taken as such.

Null Beta Members:

Andrew Fox

Thomas Henning

Will Hughes

Jeremy Liu

Jerry Zhang

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