Richard Berry founder of Good Money Guide will attempt to profitably circumnavigate the global executing 80 day trades.
The route will follow a modern version of the Phileas Fogg route from the Jules Verne novel Around The World In 80 Days. Trades will be made live from a £20,000 portfolio, the same amount as the original bet from the novel.
"Around The World In 80 Day Trades will be and epic journey produced simultaneously as book and documentary, with live social media updates throughout. "
Route
The route will follow the original version of the passage from the novel but with modern substitutes more suited to financial trading. For instance, Yemen will be replaced with Dubai.
In each location, the local market will be traded, with additional trades executed on peripheral markets like currency pairs and representative company shares. For example, GBPEUR as we travel between the UK and Europe and LVHM in Paris.
There will be 40 opening trades and 40 closing trades (80 total) as knowing when to close a position is almost as important as being long or short.
Trade | Country | Market | Result | Location | Travel |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | UK | FTSE | Reform/LSE | Eurotunnel | |
2 | GBPEUR | ||||
3 | France | CAC | Paris | Train | |
4 | Germany | Deutsche Boerse | DAX | Car | |
5 | Switzerland | EURCHF | Alps | Car | |
6 | Italy | MIB | Rome | Car | |
7 | Ferarri | Villa | |||
8 | Egypt | EUREGP | Prymids | Plane | |
9 | Gold | British Musem | |||
10 | Cotton | ||||
11 | Dubai | Crude Oil | Burj Khalifa | Plane | |
12 | Natural Gas | Dunes | |||
13 | Gold | ||||
14 | AEDINR | ||||
15 | India | Sensex | Taj Mahal | Plane | |
16 | Nifty 50 | Dehli | |||
17 | Infosys | ||||
18 | EURSGD | Plane | |||
19 | Singapore | STI | Marina Bay Sands | ||
20 | Singapore Airlines | Raffels | |||
21 | INRSGD | Hawker food | Plane | ||
22 | Hong Kong | Hang Seng | Big Budda | ||
23 | HSBC | Ngong Ping 360 cable car | Plane | ||
25 | Shanghai | Tencent | Bund | ||
26 | SSE Comp | Water tour | |||
27 | CNY | Yu Garden | |||
28 | Japan | Nikkei | Tokyo Shibuya Crossing | ||
29 | Sony | Fushimi Inari Taisha | |||
30 | USDJPY | Bullet Train/Mt Fuji | |||
31 | US San Fran | NASDAQ | Alcatraz | ||
32 | Apple | Golden Gate | |||
33 | Amazon | Apple HQ | Train to Chicago | ||
34 | Chicago | Wheat | CBOT | ||
35 | Corn | Wrigley Field | |||
36 | Copper | CME | Plane | ||
37 | US NY | DOW | Wall Street | ||
38 | Macdonalds | Ground Zero | |||
39 | Orange Juice | Statue of Liberty | Plane | ||
40 | London | USDGBP |
Partners
We will be looking to partner with a select number of firms for Around The World In 80 Day Trades. Partners will benefit from being featured in the relevant sections in the book and documentary in a number of ways, including; being used as the executing broker and trading platform, being used to generate trading ideas, used in examples of trading techniques, company profiles, regular mentions and highlighted as a sponsor.
Social Media
The entire journey will be on social media and will form a huge part of the success.
Social media will be used for:
- Sourcing trading ideas
- Daily video and photo updates
- Showing clips of interviews
- Highlighting live trades
- Portfolio tracking
- Post journey updates and clips
Documentary
A documentary will be produced in partnership with a professional production company who have worked with Richard Berry and Good Money Guide for several years.
The documentary will be filmed on location and use a combination of live footage, trading screen recordings and voiceover. It will be produced as an engaging, entertaining and educational full-length documentary.
Book
In conjunction with a publisher like Harriman House, the book will be a high-quality full colour hardback that will be made available through high-street and online bookstores and also as an ebook which will be published through all the major ebook channels.
Both the book and ebook will also be marketed directly by both the Good Money Guide and Harriman House, with Harriman emailing our 35,000 strong customer base. It will also be promoted via partners and other media channels via extensive promotional and marketing campaigns. The hardback will be priced at £20, the paperback £9.99 and the ebook at £4.99
Timetable
The below outlines an indicative timetable for the publication and release of the Around The World In 80 Day Trades, with the aim being to launch in time for Christmas 2024.
- February 2024 – April 2024: Discussions with potential partners
- May 2024: Deadline for sponsors and partners
- June 2024: Final planning and booking.
- July 2024 to September 2023: The journey and filming
- September 2024: Diary conversion to documentary production and book.
- November 2024: Editing/proofreading, final sign-off by partners.
- December 2024: Official publication & release date, PR campaign starts
Content
For each location and market traded the book and documentary will include:
- Visit to the local stock exchange
- A discussion, research and analysis of a trade
- History of the local stock market
- Executed trade with stop and limit
- Local anecdotes, scenes and locations
- Follow-up and exit of the position
Sponsorship
We are looking for a number of partners to be part of Around The World In 80 Day Trades.
Benefits to partners:
- To position a brand as the go-to global trading platform
- To reach a new and highly relevant audience
- To be associated with a knowledgeable and respected publication
- To be part of an extensive PR and marketing campaign upon launch There are a number of different levels of partnership:
Platform Partner
- Exclusive trading platform used
- Visual and voice mention when trading
- Brand, firm and platform review, highlighting key features
- Option to provide research, analysis and trading ideas
- 100 copies of the hardback edition
- Prominent branding in the documentary and on all social media
If you are interested in sponsoring Around The World In 80 Day Trades please contact us.