Raymond Firetag

I hope everyone had a healthy and successful 2025. In its inaugural year, MacroFX achieved DarwinIA Gold status, delivering a 22.85% risk-adjusted return with a 5.05% peak-to-trough drawdown. Assets under management grew from €289,407 to €392,972 by year-end, reflecting both performance and growing investor confidence. Results were driven by disciplined risk control, including predefined per-trade and daily loss limits, volatility-adjusted position selection, and conservative use of leverage. The framework prioritizes capital preservation, stable return distributions, and sustainability across changing market conditions. MacroFX operates as a rules-based discretionary–systematic hybrid, combining technical structure alignment with a macro-driven directional bias. Looking ahead to 2026, we have identified several macro themes, both emerging and ongoing, that we believe will continue to offer attractive, asymmetric opportunities.

@ESPNFC Much respect to you Pep. You're world class.

Manchester City have announced they will be naming their North Stand after Pep Guardiola. A fitting honor for the legendary manager who brought 20 major trophies to Manchester 👏

@AlexHormozi It reeks of hubris & privilege to suggest winning at something you don't want is the worst thing that can happen to you.

The worst thing that can happen to you is playing a game your entire life only to end up atop the winner’s podium with an award you don't even want.

Trading is hard because the markets don't just test your analysis. It tests what happens to your decision-making once money gets involved.

@ESPNFC Coaches only bench their superstars when they want to send a message. "You're not bigger than the team" - Arbeloa

Kylian Mbappé said he didn't play because he was told he was the fourth forward in the squad for Real Madrid. Álvaro Arbeloa later denied the claim.

@PiQSuite Sounds like a "tax and spend" democrat. We yanks marvel at how Europeans go through leaders like EPL managers. Over here, we're pretty much stuck, for the full term, with the horse we elected.

He’s running

@pineconemacro Like German Chancellor Merz said, Iran has become expert at doing nothing. Clearly Iran is playing for time. The UK and France aren't co-hosting a multinational meeting of over 40 defense ministers because "time is on our side".

Signal in that and it is not that time is on America’s side

Live view of oil traders trying to beat the market

Between the commodity market, the stock market and the prediction markets, the financial incentive to generate false market moving posts has never been greater, nor has it ever been easier to create the desired effect.

@quandapro Markets have already priced in a lot of pain. Wouldn't be surprised if the downside wasn't that ugly come Monday open.

I am so fucked

@RobinhoodApp You handed people a roulette wheel and now you’re quoting Warren Buffett? 😆

Building wealth is a marathon, not a sprint.

@FusionptCapital Openish.

Strait of Hormuz, open or closed?

@CFTC What are you doing over there? It's obvious to anyone with a brain someone is front running Iran headline news (oil) with pefect timing. Even the Iranian foreign minister called it out. Would you please put your considerable resources to work and nail the people doing this?

@AndreasSteno Seems like all the good news surrounding the ME has been priced in. Be interesting to see if we get a "sell the fact" or if stocks can go higher on earnings.

I btw think that there is a risk of a setback in markets when a deal is agreed upon

I think that's the 11th war Trump has stopped. This guy's amazing.

Institutional allocators do not care if you made 50% last month if you had to risk 40% to achieve it. They do not care about your intuition. They care about your Sharpe ratio. They care about your maximum drawdown over a multi-year month sample. They care about your Capacity: whether your strategy can absorb $10 million in real liquidity without breaking under market impact. Professional trading is not glamorous. It is deliberately boring. It is the relentless, emotionless execution of a verified statistical edge. It is sitting on your hands for three weeks because your system hasn't fired a valid signal. Most importantly, it is having the discipline to execute flawlessly in the middle of a painful drawdown, simply because you trust the maths.

@USgovUnfiltered @FirstSquawk

@WGFund1 @FirstSquawk The source is fake news from England

SHARP DIVISIONS AMONG IRAN'S NEGOTIATING TEAM PROMPTED THEM TO WALK OUT OF US TALKS IN ISLAMABAD & RETURN TO TEHRAN ON APR 11, FOLLOWING ORDER FROM IRAN'S TOP SECURITY OFFICIAL - IRAN INTERNATIONAL CITING SOURCES

@sentdefender It amazes me Christian conservatives don't have a problem with this.

After attacking the Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, in a rambling post earlier tonight for his criticisms of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, President Trump posted this AI image to TruthSocial, portraying himself as Jesus Christ.

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