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2026 YTD Return	40.49%					Thematic Allocation	Total Notional Exposure
Total Notional Exposure	48.72%					Aerospace & Defense	0.00%
Equity Exposure	17.27%					Metals & Mining	0.00%
Futures/Forex Exposure	31.45%					Oil & Gas / Energy	13.68%
Current Cash Value (%)	35.00%	Rolling 12M Return		107.33%		Other	3.59%
Total Capital At-Risk (%)	-1.40%	TTM 3YR Total Return		341.94%		Crypto	0.00%
Total Drawdown Risk (%)	2.40%	Rolling 3YR CAGR		41.69%
									Note: Stops are soft unless otherwise stated!
Futures, Bonds & FX	Ticker	Contracts	Capital	Notional	Actual Risk	DD Risk	Cost Basis	Current Price	Current Stop-Loss	Initial Stop-Loss	Current P&L	R-Multiple (Curr.)	Total Notional	Total Risk
Note: Cost Basis Reflects Rolled Contract Cost Basis													31.45%	-1.23%
Crude Oil Futures	CLJ2026	7	$616,000.00	8.76%	-2.92%	-0.80%	$66.70	$88.00	$96.00	$63.40	31.93%	6.45
Micro Silver Futures	SILK2026	3	$258,510.00	3.68%	0.70%	0.35%	$94.26	$86.17	$77.90	$77.90	-8.58%	-0.49
KC HRW Wheat Futures	KEK2026	25	$766,875.00	10.90%	0.48%	1.21%	$572.70	$613.50	$545.63	$545.63	7.12%	1.51
Micro Gold Futures	MGCJ2026	11	$570,559.00	8.11%	0.51%	0.44%	$5,234.00	$5,186.90	$4,907.00	$4,907.00	-0.90%	-0.14


Equities	Ticker	Shares	Capital	Notional	Actual Risk	DD Risk	Cost Basis	Current Price	Current Stop-Loss	Initial Stop-Loss	Current P&L	R-Multiple (Curr.)	Total Notional	Total Risk
Aerospace & Defense													13.68%	-0.18%
Metals & Mining
Oil & Gas / Energy
Other
Bloomberg All Commodity ETF	BCI	4,901	$116,349.74	1.65%	-0.28%	0.06%	$18.82	$23.74	$22.84	$18.28	26.14%	9.11
Bloomberg All Commodity ETF (2nd Leg)	BCI	861	$20,440.14	0.29%	-0.04%	0.01%	$19.38	$23.74	$22.84	$18.30	22.50%	4.04
Bloomberg All Commodity ETF (3rd Leg)	BCI	34,774	$825,534.76	11.74%	-0.60%	0.45%	$21.62	$23.74	$22.84	$20.51	9.81%	1.91
Kraken Robotics Inc	PNG.TSXV	34,428	$252,295.94	3.59%	0.75%	0.68%	$7.46	$7.33	$5.93	$5.93	-1.78%	-0.09

Crypto
Options	Ticker	Contracts	Capital	Notional	Actual Risk	DD Risk	Cost Basis	Current (Mid) Price	Current Stop-Loss	Initial Stop-Loss	Current P&L	R-Multiple (Curr.)	Total Notional	Total Risk
													-0.01%	-0.04%
USO 20 MAR 26 73.0 Put	USO260320P73.0	-33	-$825.00	-0.01%	-0.04%	0.01%	$1.36	$0.25	$0.50	$0.00	81.62%	0.82

Cash Net Interest
Cash Value (as of 08/29)	$1,459,966
IBKR Interest on Cash	3.50%
YTD Interest Received	$9,660
Days in 2026	69.00
Year Complete	18.90%

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Brandon Beylo

Value Investor

Brandon has been a professional investor focusing on value for over 13 years, spending his time in small to micro-cap companies, spin-offs, SPACs, and deep value liquidation situations. Over time, he’s developed a deeper understanding for what deep-value investing actually means, and refined his philosophy to include any business trading at a wild discount to what he thinks its worth in 3-5 years.

Brandon has a tenacious passion for investing, broad-based learning, and business. He previously worked for several leading investment firms before joining the team at Macro Ops. He lives by the famous Munger mantra of trying to get a little smarter each day.

AK

Investing & Personal Finance

AK is the founder of Macro Ops and the host of Fallible.

He started out in corporate economics for a Fortune 50 company before moving to a long/short equity investment firm.

With Macro Ops focused primarily on institutional clients, AK moved to servicing new investors just starting their journey. He takes the professional research and education produced at Macro Ops and breaks it down for beginners. The goal is to help clients find the best solution for their investing needs through effective education.

Tyler Kling

Volatility & Options Trader

Former trade desk manager at $100+ million family office where he oversaw multiple traders and helped develop cutting edge quantitative strategies in the derivatives market.

He worked as a consultant to the family office’s in-house fund of funds in the areas of portfolio manager evaluation and capital allocation.

Certified in Quantitative Finance from the Fitch Learning Center in London, England where he studied under famous quants such as Paul Wilmott.

Alex Barrow

Macro Trader

Founder and head macro trader at Macro Ops. Alex joined the US Marine Corps on his 18th birthday just one month after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He subsequently spent a decade in the military. Serving in various capacities from scout sniper to interrogator and counterintelligence specialist. Following his military service, he worked as a contract intelligence professional for a number of US agencies (from the DIA to FBI) with a focus on counterintelligence and terrorist financing. He also spent time consulting for a tech company that specialized in building analytic software for finance and intelligence analysis.

After leaving the field of intelligence he went to work at a global macro hedge fund. He’s been professionally involved in markets since 2005, has consulted with a number of the leading names in the hedge fund space, and now manages his own family office while running Macro Ops. He’s published over 300 white papers on complex financial and macroeconomic topics, writes regularly about investment/market trends, and frequently speaks at conferences on trading and investing.

Macro Ops is a market research firm geared toward professional and experienced retail traders and investors. Macro Ops’ research has been featured in Forbes, Marketwatch, Business Insider, and Real Vision as well as a number of other leading publications.

You can find out more about Alex on his LinkedIn account here and also find him on Twitter where he frequently shares his market research.