Alex Krainer

Alex Krainer (@NakedHedgie) is an author and former hedge fund manager based in Monaco. He was born and raised in the socialist regime of former Yugoslavia, under one-party communist rule. At 17 he joined a student exchange program in the United States where he took up his university studies. From there his path led to Switzerland on a scholarship where he completed a degree in Business and Economics and advanced to a masters program.

From Switzerland he moved to Venezuela where he lived for a year and experienced his first banking crisis in 1994 when nine of Venezuela’s 16 largest banks failed and brought the country’s economy to a grinding halt. That year he returned to his native Croatia and joined the military where he served through 1995 during the last phases of Croatia’s war of independence.

In 1996, upon discharge from the military, he took employment at an oil trading company in Monaco. One thing led to another and 29 years later, he is still in Monaco.

In 2020 Alex wound up his hedge funds career and set up Krainer Analytics to provide turn-key portfolio solutions and trading decision support to third party investment managers. Alex published three books: In 2015 he published his first book titled “Mastering Uncertainty in Commodities Trading," (free download) which was ranked #1 book on FinancialExpert.co.uk list of “The 5 Best Commodities Books for Investors and Traders” for 2021 and 2022.

In 2017, he published "Grand Deception: Truth About Bill Browder, Magnitsky Act and the Anti-Russia Sanctions," which was promptly banned by Amazon, republished 9 months later by RedPill Press but promptly banned again.

In 2021 he published "Alex Krainer's Trend Following Bible" (free download).

Alex has two publications on Substack: I-System TrendCompass (https://trendcompass.substack.com/), which is a daily trend-following newsletter covering 18 global financial and commodity markets, and Alex Krainer's Substack (https://alexkrainer.substack.com/). Everything is accessible free of charge except the trading signals which are behind a paywall.

Alex is also active on X as @NakedHedgie