Zen Investing is a community committed to alternative financial news, holistic investing and living tactics. Zen Investing provides its community with independent ideas and information free from the skewed and corrupted narrative of institutional financial journalism. Hosted by Joel Nelson - BestSelling Author and Hedge Fund Manager - Joel is a Series 3 Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA), systematic futures market trader, trading system designer and founder of Black Lotus Capital (BLC). BLC is a Hedge Fund specializing in systematic futures trading portfolios that are "robust and positively asymmetric to market volatility and fat tail events". Joel is a permanent traveler, choosing to have no home, and moves freely around the world. Though, he spends a considerable amount of time in Thailand with Thai fiancé'. He practices Buddhism, Yoga and limits his worldly possession to what he can fit in his back pack. Nelson believes the concepts of robustness and positive asymmetry to chaos and volatility are also to be applied to daily life, not just investments.