Weekly Performance Update: Week of 5/19/25

Market Recap

Markets gapped down a bit on Monday on the Moody's Downgrade but rallied back to positive by the close. Then were range bound the first half of the week with price action consolidating on the indexes. Things started moving on Wednesday with a somewhat abysmal auction on the 20-year Treasuries. Rates continue to climb, as it seems apparent that the Bond Market is not liking the "Big Beautiful Bill" and the continuation of out of control Government Spending.

Shortly before the market open on Friday it was announced that there would be 50% Tariffs on the EU, but several hours after the open the market had erased about half of the selloff, as it seems apparent at this point that most of this will likely get walked back.

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Our Net Performance This Week

The consolidated price action did not bode well for two positions we had on late last week that carried into this week for Pure Alpha. While the selloff Wednesday put some juice into the hedges we had on, it was still a limited move to the downside. Same was true for Futures Focus and Hedge Fusion was slightly green for the week thanks to the bullish move in Gold (GC).

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Our Trades This Week

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The Week Ahead

Short week with Markets closed on Monday for Memorial Day. There is not much Econ Data on the horizon so we default to news driven. Price action is defaulting to the upside on the negative news that is hitting the wire, so it's safe to say that the consensus is still Bullish, even if slightly.

NVDA has earnings on Wednesday but lately that has been a money maker for Premium Sellers and not worth being long calls or puts into the ER.

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