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John Netto

Author,

The Global Macro Edge

  • Author of The Global Macro Edge: Maximizing Return Per Unit-of-Risk
  • Creator of the Netto Number, the Risk Factor Compensation System
  • Named Strategy Developer of the Month for his Protean Strategy

About John

John Netto is the author of The Global Macro Edge: Maximizing Return Per Unit-of-Risk and featured in Unknown Market Wizards: The Best Traders You've Never Heard of. He is also the creator of the Netto Number, the Risk Factor Compensation System, and the Protean Strategy. Mr. 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. John has also appeared on numerous financial content mediums to share his passion for risk-based macro trading. 
     Moreover, he is a student at UNLV's Boyd School of Law where he is expected to complete his Juris Doctor degree in May 2025 and sit for the Nevada Bar Exam in July 2025. As a JD student, Mr. Netto externed 1) at the Nevada Supreme Court under the Honorable Justice Kristina Pickering and 2) for the Eighth Judicial District's ADR/Discovery Commissioner Adam Ganz. John is also pursuing an MBA with an accounting focus from UNLV's Lee School of Business with an expected graduation of May 2026.


John's Articles

John Netto explains how he trades market sentiment and the tools he uses to do so.

John's Videos

At TradersExpo, John Netto shares how you can help injured US veterans with service dogs, says the USMC veteran. We have donated all proceeds from The Global Macro Edge to RebuildingWarriors.com
At TradersExpo Las Vegas, John Netto: The Netto Number, from his 600-page book, adds useful context to take a 3-D view of the performance of any strategy, trade or market. @JohnNetto.
For his new book, The Global Macro Edge, John Netto “took conventional thought out there—or myths—to show that they are not true.”
John Netto, President of The Protean Trader, LLC, describes how the Netto Number can help traders to measure returns by manager and also returns based on unit of risk.


John's Books

John Netto

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

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.
John Netto

One Shot One Kill Trading

John Netto, a former U.S. Marine, designed his "One Shot–One Kill" trading methodology to leverage the patience, discipline, and execution skills he learned in the military with the technical skills he has mastered in the marketplace. In One Shot-One Kill Trading, Netto explains in detail his complete, proprietary One Shot – One Kill Trading Method.