Wishing everyone happy holidays ๐
Step away from the charts, recharge, and reflect.
May 2026 bring clean setups, disciplined execution, strong risk management, and many successful trades.
More patience, more consistency, and a smooth equity curve ahead ๐
2025 wasnโt a recovery year โ it was a reset.
Rates stayed higher for longer, killing easy money. Unprofitable firms struggled, cash flow mattered again. AI became real infrastructure, not hype. Globalization fragmented, real assets outperformed, and capital turned selective.
CHF (True defensive, but expensive)
Swiss franc remains the cleanest risk-off hedge, but valuation is stretched. Gains likely only during sharp risk events, not slow macro deterioration.
JPY (Deep value, policy-suppressed)
Yen is fundamentally undervalued, but BOJ policy still suppresses normalization. FX intervention risk is rising. JPY moves will be violent, not gradual โ driven by yield shocks, not economic improvement.
EUR (Structurally weak, tactically supported)
Euro rallies are mostly USD-driven, not EUR-led. Growth is soft, credit demand is weak, and fiscal fragmentation remains a drag. Without a real growth catalyst, EUR upside is capped unless USD unwinds aggressively.
USD (Still dominant, but late-cycle fragile)
Dollar strength isnโt about US growth anymore โ itโs about relative weakness elsewhere. Rate-cut expectations are rising, real yields are peaking, and positioning is crowded. USD risk is skewed to sharp downside on bad data.
Core risk: perception mismatch. Markets stay optimistic while households feel squeezed. If economic data fully catches up to lived reality, repricing could hit equities, bonds, and the dollar simultaneously.
US economy last 3 weeks: labor market is weakening, inflation is cooling mostly on paper, and growth momentum is fading. Data distortions mask real stress while households feel pressure and markets continue to price a soft-landing scenario.
Growth looks stable backward, fragile forward. Strong earlier GDP contrasts with softer leading indicators now. The economy isnโt in recession yet, but itโs losing speed faster than markets are pricing in.
Fed behavior reveals concern. Rate cuts suggest policymakers are more worried about slowing growth and labor weakness than inflation. This isnโt victory-lap easing โ itโs pre-emptive risk management.