My name is Brent Donnelly, and I’m a crypto agnostic.
This is where I write about crypto through a global macro lens. I have been trading since 1995 and writing about trading since 2004.
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MTC #1-10 archive:
MTC 1: Two cascading failures at the ATH
MTC 2: Bitcoin crashes, seasonals, and other cool stuff
MTC 3: Embrace the Nonsense
MTC 4: The Stadium Curse + 7 other warning signs
Short ETH at 4210, stop 4902, target 3010
MTC 5: Nobody will ever tell you when to sell
MTC 6: The three big hype cycles of 2021
MTC 7: These charts all look like mountains
MTC 8: Buy some mittens
MTC 9: Flat is strong
Target reached on short ETH (3010) Short SAND, long BTC idea
MTC 10: Literally: not a game
Bio
Brent Donnelly is President of Spectra Markets. He has been trading currencies since 1995 and writing about macro since 2004. Brent is the author of “Alpha Trader” (2021) and “The Art of Currency Trading” (Wiley, 2019). He writes a widely-read and highly-respected global macro and FX daily called am/FX. Over the course of his career, he has been a market maker, trader, and senior manager at some of the top banks in foreign exchange.
Brent has extensive experience trading currencies, FX options, stock index futures, NASDAQ stocks, and commodities. He is a respected macro thinker with the unique perspective of a senior risk taker. He has been quoted by or featured in the Economist, Real Vision, Epsilon Theory, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and CNBC.
Before joining Spectra, Brent was a senior FX trader at HSBC, head of G10 Spot Trading at Citi New York, and a Managing Director at Nomura New York. He was also a portfolio manager at a major hedge fund in Connecticut for three years. He created and wrote a cartoon called ‘‘Daft Planet,’’ which aired on TV in Canada, and he dreams of one day winning the Man Booker Prize.
