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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 head of cross-asset investments at Rareview Capital. He is also the author of The Global Macro Edge: Maximizing Return Per Unit-of-Risk and featured in Jack Schwager’s Unknown Market Wizards: The Best Traders You’ve Never Heard Of, which profiles his career employing discretionary and algorithmic macro trading strategies.

Mr. Netto created the Netto Number, the Risk Factor Compensation System, and the Protean Strategy—frameworks that have reshaped how professional investors quantify and reward risk-adjusted performance.

He has appeared on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, Fox Business, Real Vision, the Words of Rizdom podcast, and The Wall Street Journal, sharing insights on macro strategy and capital market architecture. A former US Marine Corps Staff Sergeant, he brings that same precision and discipline to his legal and advisory work.

John is also a licensed attorney in the State of Nevada. He earned his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from UNLV’s Boyd School of Law, where he externed with both the Nevada Supreme Court (Justice Kristina Pickering) and the Discovery Commission (Commissioner Adam Ganz).

Mr. Netto integrates law, finance, and technology to guide clients through complex transactional, M&A, and trust matters with risk-adjusted insight. He is also completing his MBA at UNLV’s Lee Business School, focusing on accounting, M&A, financial modeling, and Subchapter K taxation--all through an AI lens--with expected graduation in 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.