Senior ETF analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence
3 dated public stances tracked since 2026-01-21, most recently 2026-08-24. Each line carries the date and the venue it came from; quotation marks mean verbatim. Methodology.
The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of Eric Balchunas's public commentary — television, podcasts, and interviews — compiled by automated transcript analysis and dated to the episode they came from. They may lag the speaker's current view and may contain extraction errors. Text in quotation marks is verbatim from the episode; everything else is our paraphrase. Eric Balchunas is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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Raw direction-aware returns on public statements — long calls credited when the price rose, shorts when it fell, shorts capped at −100% — in a rising market this mostly measures who was long, not who has skill. Returns run from the stance date; calls are rarely closed publicly, so fixed 90-day / 180-day / 1-year horizons are used. A horizon shows only once it has fully matured, and only at 5+ scored stances. “% correct” is the share of those scored calls whose direction-aware return was positive at the horizon — in a rising market a bullish call is correct by default, so read it beside the market, not alone.
Scored calls
Every tracked call with at least one matured horizon: the rows behind the Returns
line above. A dash is a horizon that has not matured yet.
| Date | Name | Call | 90d | 180d | 1y |
|---|
| 2026-07-20 | AGG | bearish | +1.9% | — | — |
Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|
| AGG | 1 | | 1 bearish | 2026-07-20 |
| BITCOIN | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2026-08-24 |
| EMERGING MARKETS ETFS | 1 | | 1 bullish | 2026-01-21 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2026-08-24
BITCOIN
bullish
Bloomberg ETF IQ · video
Treasury buybacks of long-dated bonds are a currency debasement catalyst that directly drives Bitcoin inflows, with the prior week posting the largest Bitcoin ETF inflow week since the early 2025 launch euphoria
“percent treasury buying is a very big catalyst for Bitcoin”
Goldman M&A, NHL Futures | ETF IQ 8/24/2026
2026-07-20
AGG
bearish
Bloomberg ETF IQ · video
Bond ETFs deliver no diversification (bonds fell in tandem with stocks in 2022) while money market funds offer 4% yield with stable NAV and no risk, eliminating the core rationale for holding broad investment-grade bond ETFs
“it just seems like all signs point to like a 60/40 equities and money market fund or cash. Like, just skip the ag”
90d +1.9%
ETF IQ 7/20/2026
2026-01-21
EMERGING MARKETS ETFS
bullish
Bloomberg ETF IQ · video
Three consecutive months of record EM ETF inflows—$11B in January alone, spread across 72 distinct EM ETFs covering both trader and retail products—signals genuine breadth and depth rather than a crowded momentum trade
“72 different emerging markets ETFs are taking in flows...That tells me there's breadth and depth”
JPM's Success As Active ETF Mngr, NYSE Builds for 24/7 Trading of Tokenized ETFs | ETF IQ 1/21/2026
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