Weekly Performance Update: Week of 5/12/25

Market Recap

Markets rallied massive to start the week on a 90-day pause for the bulk of tariffs between the U.S. and China. The rest of the week was fairly quiet. with the indexes staying near highs and grinding upwards a bit. After the close on Friday Moody's downgraded the U.S. as a debt issuer. More on this at the end leaning into next week.

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Our Net Performance This Week

Decent week for Pure Alpha and good week for Futures Focus. In Hedge Fusion we had some mostly neutral exposure in Gold (GC) that started the week well, but the second trade gave a bit back. Of note below is we are actively tracking our weekly Relative Risk and how performance went, as well as the performance versus the larger and Total Risk Budget.

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Our Trades This Week

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The Week Ahead

As stated early in this entry, Moody's downgraded the U.S. after the close on Friday. Markets sold off just over 1% after hours on the news. Where do we open on Sunday Night? Hard to say and I don't really know. What I do know is we have exposure on both sides of the market so we will be just fine.

There are half a dozen items (or more) that could hit the tape in the next 24 hours to completely nullify this news and send SPX over 6000. As always, we will let the market do what it does and take profits when they present themselves, while dampening volatility and risk across the strategies.

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