The Global Macro Edge: Maximizing Return Per Unit-of-Risk

With a proven personal track record of trading experience, John Netto, The Protean Trader, has found great success and personal satisfaction in working the market. Now, in The Global Macro Edge, he pulls back the curtain to reveal the tools and techniques he's used (and created) to identify and solve the largest problems facing investors, traders, and financial advisors today at a level of transparency rarely seen in books on investing.

The Global Macro Edge includes chapters from a talented team of market practitioners as it details how to maximize return per unit-of-risk. And, in the process, it shatters some of the longest held investment myths:

• More risk equals more return
• Money always find its most efficient home
• Emotions are your enemy
• Diversification is the only strategy you need
• Today's markets offer fewer opportunities
• Compensation should be based on returns

The Global Macro Edge presents a logical and robust investment framework that can help investors, traders, and financial advisors profitably navigate global markets by enhancing their operations, analytics, and execution. The Global Macro Edge gives you, the reader, both a top-down and bottom-up approach to Next Generation Investing that is driven by one overarching goal: maximizing return per unit-of-risk. Contributing authors include:

Foreword by Wesley R Gray, PhD

Neil Azous
Jessica Hoversen
Cameron Crise
Darrell Martin
Joe DiNapoli
Fotis Papatheofanous
William Glenn
Raoul Pal
Todd Gordon
Jason Roney
Patrick Hemminger
Bob Savage
Steve Hotovec
Denise Shull

John Netto is a cross-asset class trader and the creator of the Netto Number, the Risk Factor Compensation System, and the Protean Strategy, for which he was named by Collective2.com as Strategy Developer of the Month. Mr. Netto has conducted numerous live trading webinars where viewers watch his P&L, positions, and orders in real time for total transparency of his methods. He has appeared on CNBC s Fast Money, Closing Bell, and Squawk on the Street, as well as Bloomberg, CNN, Fox Business Channel, and PBS. Mr. Netto is also the author of One Shot One Kill Trading. Mr. Netto speaks, reads, and writes Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish to help him articulate his vision of the markets to an international audience.

A portion of the profits of this book will be donated to charities who train and place service dogs with military veterans.

John Netto is a cross-asset class trader and the creator of the Netto Number, the Risk Factor Compensation System, and the Protean Strategy, for which he was named by Collective2.com as Strategy Developer of the Month. Netto is an expert in developing, executing, and managing proprietary algorithmic and discretionary trading strategies across a range of time horizons, asset classes, and market regimes.

Mr. Netto has conducted numerous live trading webinars where viewers watch his P&L, positions, and orders in real time for total transparency of his methods. He has appeared on CNBC s Fast Money, Closing Bell, and Squawk on the Street, as well as Bloomberg, CNN, Fox Business Channel, and PBS.

Mr. Netto is also the author of One Shot - One Kill Trading. Mr. Netto speaks, reads, and writes Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish to help him articulate his vision of the markets to an international audience. John Netto's ability to convey esoteric concepts was put on display when he was featured in the documentary movies, Life on the Line and Ghost Exchange, where he simplified to viewers some of complex aspects of creating a point spread model on The Super Bowl and executing high frequency trading strategies. Netto served in the United States Marine Corps for over eight years and is passionate about Veterans' causes.