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Commodities July 2026

What Actually Moved Gold

Gold ran to a record above 5,300 dollars an ounce and then fell about a quarter. The inflation story its owners cite neither called the rally nor cushioned the fall. What moved it was real rates, the dollar and the official-sector bid.

PDF · 27 pages · 786 KB
Technology July 2026

The AI Bubble Is the Wrong Question

Both sides of the argument are debating demand. We read the supply side, the capital being committed, through the cycle that has decided every technology mania for two centuries.

PDF · 25 pages · 719 KB
Monetary Policy June 2026

The New FOMC

The Federal Reserve held rates at the first meeting under a new chair, an outcome priced at 99.6 percent. The decision was never the story. We read the curve as it turns, quietly, from a cut to a hike.

PDF · 12 pages · 1.0 MB
Market Structure June 2026

Positioning and the Curve

Large speculators are heavily net short US duration and broad equities, while the curve has re-steepened out of inversion. A reading of where the crowd is leaning, and what the curve is pricing.

PDF · 12 pages · 505 KB
Equity Factors June 2026

The Drift After Earnings

One of the oldest anomalies in finance says prices keep moving in the direction of an earnings surprise for weeks after the report. Tested on five years of S&P 500 data, the drift is real and concentrated in the strongest beats.

PDF · 10 pages · 498 KB
Intraday June 2026

Opening Range Breakout

Break the first thirty-minute range and the day tends to keep going. We confirm the edge on the Nasdaq-100 and show it vanishes on individual stocks. A study in where an edge lives.

PDF · 9 pages · 469 KB
Alternative Data June 2026

Copying Congress

On the full record of more than eleven thousand disclosed buys across one hundred and fifty-plus members, copying Congress does not beat the market. The famous outperformance is a handful of standouts, not the body.

PDF · 12 pages · 516 KB
Volatility June 2026

The Volatility Premium

Options are priced for more volatility than the market delivers. The premium is real and present 82 percent of the time, yet harvesting it naively pays little for a punishing tail.

PDF · 9 pages · 489 KB
Digital Assets June 2026

Buying Bitcoin by Valuation

Buy more when on-chain valuation is cheap, less when it is rich. Over eleven years it bought more per dollar and lowered the average cost, but did not reduce the drawdown.

PDF · 10 pages · 477 KB

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