Based in Suffield, Connecticut, Dan Sapienza is a UConn economics graduate working as a solo equities day trader. Passionate about renewable energy, UConn alumnus Dan Sapienza supports the XPrize Foundation. The XPrize Foundation is focused on utilizing clean energy to solve problems such as water scarcity. In late 2016, XPrize announced a challenge to draw 2,000 liters of water from the atmosphere, using only clean energy, at a cost of two cents per liter. The atmosphere has enough water to meet the needs of the global population. However, producing it at two cents a liter requires technological engineering well ahead of what many water companies have.One of the teams taking part in the competition is from IIT Madras, a research institution in Chennai, India. To develop the next-level technology, the team, led by Professor T. Pradeep. sought inspiration from nature. Grass has cold pointed tips where water droplets condense while insects utilize small bumps on their surface to condense atmospheric water. Armed with this knowledge, one of the team members developed a glass torch with a metallic grassland where water droplets can condense. The team is now using the same technology to develop a larger cooling device that can dispense the condensed water.
Based in Suffield, CT, Dan Sapienza is a University of Connecticut (Uconn) graduate who has successfully pursued Wall Street day trading strategies since the late 1990s. Dan Sapienza has an economics degree from Uconn and employs traditional research-based methodologies in picking stocks to trade. An avid CNBC watcher, he pays particular attention to companies and markets worth investing in. One aspect of this equation involves identifying intermarket dynamics before the general investing public catches up with them. Examples of such complex asset-driven scenarios include a situation in mid-2014 where the price of crude oil plummeted, stocks took a major beating, and the dollar strengthened significantly. Given that these trends are interrelated, investors would have had a number of ways of achieving similar returns. These include shorting stocks and crude oil, and going long on U.S. currency. In early 2017, a primary trend involves interest rate increases, with a number of interrelated financial market asset classes such as insurance and bank stocks likely to benefit. At the same time, this trend is likely to boost the dollar and work against the value of gold. Commodities are expected to trend on a downward or neutral slope. These macro-level trends thus influence the types of investments that make the most sense.
