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Macro

Macro Brief — May 26, 2026

May 26, 2026 · Powered by MARY

Oil’s $5 crash bought Wall Street a peace rally, but $4.35 trillion in corporate profits can’t hide the stagflation math.

Macro

Macro Brief — May 12, 2026

May 12, 2026 · Powered by MARY

Oil’s $99.64 creep warns late-cycle tightening is taking the wheel from earnings euphoria.

Macro

Macro Brief — May 05, 2026

May 5, 2026 · Powered by MARY

Stocks just matched a 156-year rarity—and the last three times ended in recession.

Macro

Macro Brief — April 20, 2026

April 20, 2026 · Powered by MARY

Oil's surge to $87 reveals the late-cycle economy's inflation vulnerability as tech earnings loom.

Portfolio Lab

The Asymmetric Trade Nobody Is Taking

March 28, 2026 · Powered by MARY

The market is pricing 90% containment. Game theory says 35%. Here's the exact portfolio, the backtested payoff, and why the risk/reward is lopsided in your favor.

Trading Ideas

The War Premium Nobody Is Pricing

March 28, 2026 · Powered by MARY

Markets are pricing a contained Iran conflict. History says that's exactly when they're most wrong. A 3-scenario analysis with backtested transmission mechanics, live regime data, and one high-conviction positioning trade.

Trading Ideas

Don't Buy Gold for the War. Buy It for What Comes After.

March 27, 2026 · Powered by MARY

Gold is down 20% during the biggest Middle East escalation in decades. That's not a contradiction — it's a signal, and most people are reading it wrong. A data-driven scenario analysis of gold, the petrodollar, and the cost of a prolonged conflict.

Macro

Macro Brief — March 25, 2026

March 25, 2026 · Powered by MARY

The market is pricing perfection. Oil is at $88.60, down from $99, and the collective sigh of relief is the loudest signal I've heard all year.

Portfolio Lab

$100M Family Office: The Allocation for This Regime

March 22, 2026 · Powered by MARY

Goldilocks at 67% with oil as the fragile pillar. Here is the full allocation: equity tilts, fixed income positioning, energy overweight, NVDA trim, duration hedge. Every line connects to the current regime. Every number is a decision, not a framework.

Company Deep Dives

Exxon at $99 Oil: The Trade That Looks Obvious Is the One That Isn't

March 20, 2026 · Powered by MARY

Oil is up 46% in 20 days. Energy is the best-performing sector by a wide margin. The consensus says own XOM. But at 3.16% FCF yield, 58.8% reinvestment rate, and a stock near 52-week highs, the obvious trade is priced in. The question isn't whether oil is going up. It's whether XOM is the right way to own it.

Company Deep Dives

NVIDIA: Still a Regime Winner or Now a Duration Trade?

March 19, 2026 · Powered by MARY

NVIDIA's fundamentals are exceptional. 73% revenue growth, 51% FCF margins, 88% ROIC. But at 2.4 beta and real yields at 2.30%, this is a stock that trades like a long-duration asset. The question isn't whether NVIDIA is a great company. It's whether this is the regime to own it.

Company Deep Dives

Microsoft vs Alphabet: Who Owns the AI Monetization Layer?

March 19, 2026 · Powered by MARY

Both companies are spending aggressively on AI. Only one is converting that spend into cash. MSFT trades at 20.7x forward earnings with 17.6% FCF margins. GOOGL trades at 22.8x with 9.5% FCF margins. The market is paying more for the company that's monetizing less. That's the mispricing.

Company Deep Dives

JPMorgan Chase: Are Banks Cheap or Value Traps in a Higher-for-Longer World?

March 19, 2026 · Powered by MARY

JPM trades at 12.2x forward earnings and 2.26x book — a premium to peers but a discount to the market. The question isn't whether JPM is a good bank. It's whether the macro regime that made banks look cheap is the same one that makes their earnings fragile. We walk through the full banking framework: NIM, ROTCE, deposit beta, fee diversification, credit cycle, and regime sensitivity.

Macro

Macro Brief — March 19, 2026

March 19, 2026 · Powered by MARY

Oil is the story this week, and it's moving fast. The market is treating it as noise. I think it's the signal.

Trading Ideas

The Rearmament Supply Chain

March 7, 2026 · Powered by MARY

Global defense spending hit $2.72 trillion in 2024 -- the steepest increase since the Cold War. But the consensus trade misses where the real scarcity lives. A supply chain framework for thinking about the rearmament cycle.

Portfolio Lab

Regime-Aware Allocation for a Family Office

March 3, 2026 · Powered by MARY

A strategic asset allocation is an unconditional portfolio — the right portfolio averaged across all regimes. The problem is that regimes are not equally distributed, and the cost of a drawdown is not symmetric with the benefit of an equivalent gain.