Wall Street Disaster Expert Bill Noble: Crypto Spring Is Inevitable

In another reality, Bill Noble would be just another guy in a suit behind a big desk at the Fed or the SEC, probably muttering negative incantations like “crypto is bad”.

He certainly has the track record: JP Morgan, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs. But that's Noble in an evil mirror dimension. In our world, he's a real crypto guy, talking to me in a t-shirt with bikes in the back of the room. He turned away from the dark side and joined the rebels.

He is known for his popular YouTube podcasts and TV appearances. He is currently a Senior Market Analyst at Token Metrics.

Career on Wall Street

During his studies in economics (1987-1991) at Rutgers University in New Jersey, he managed to land one of the only two internships sought at the time at the JP Morgan currency exchange office in Wall Street. Noble started when trading technology was primitive and a lot of analysis was done by hand on paper. In August 1990, he was made office manager, when everyone was going on vacation, "Because nothing happens in August, let the kid fill in." Then Iraq invaded Kuwait, and all sorts of madness broke out in the markets.

Graphing Made Easy by John J. Murphy.

"Price volatility seemed so extreme to me. I had no idea how anyone kept track of that. So I went to the technical analyst who was attached to the currency unit. I said, "I bet everyone comes you seek help in trying to solve this problem."

"He said, 'Actually, nobody does.' So he gave me John Murphy's chart book [Charting Made Easy] and took me out to eat some sushi. And I was off to the races from there using graphics.”

During his years of progression in the conventional milieu of Wall Street, he became an expert technical analyst, which he combined with writing reports on various markets. During crashes and Black Swan events – like the Long Term Capital Management implosion in 1998, which nearly cratered the Western financial world – Noble was the go-to guy. "I'm like a firefighter: when everyone is running out of the burning building, I'm running in," he jokes.

From Stocks and Bonds to Crypto Analysis

In 2017, he became intrigued by cryptography. He went to an Austin, Texas Bitcoin conference and started making hand charts for Ether, which eventually became a gigantic scroll as the price rose and fell. Then he met Charlie Schrem, the early Bitcoin adopter, walking through an airport (who had a career in crypto with dramatic ups and downs, even going to jail time related to the implosion of the bitcoin). Silk Road market). They came together in crypto.IQ, an advisory service aimed at improving cryptocurrency analysis with stocks, bonds, interest rates and other common data, something no one else was doing. at the time.

Bill Noble on stage at DCentral Miami. Source: Twitter

In September 2019, Noble joined Token Metrics as a Senior Market Analyst. Led by CEO Ian Balina, the subscription service provides retail traders with AI-powered insights, combined with the work of analysts researching volatile cryptocurrency markets to help them make beneficial trades no matter what. are the general conditions.

He explains that it combines an "artificial intelligence system with my mapping. You effectively have a quantitative research product, an institutional quantitative research product that we can deliver to retail, which, you know, isn't ...