About Me
My name is Dmitry Buriko. I am a former Vice President and Treasurer of a Fortune 500 company, where my team oversaw billions of dollars in foreign exchange and interest rate derivatives, executed multiple public debt offerings, managed investments for a multi-billion-dollar defined benefit pension plan, and handled global corporate liquidity. In early 2025, I left my corporate role to pursue full-time trading, employing a discretionary approach that combines macroeconomic analysis and technical trading strategies
What is Macro Speculator
Macro Speculator is my personal project, created to document my trading journey, share my daily market insights, and showcase how I translate those views into trades within a real-money Model Account. I am not a financial advisor, nor am I selling any products or services. Macro Speculator serves as a public trading journal, tracking the performance of my personal account, with periodic updates shared on my YouTube channel, X, and this website
What is a Model Account
The Model Account is a real-money brokerage account I began trading in April 2025, starting with an initial balance of $300,000. I periodically share my trading results and market views on the Trading Updates page, YouTube and X. A summary of my performance, along with broker statements, is available on the Performance page
US Investing Championship
I enrolled my Model Account in the U.S. Investing Championship in April 2025, coinciding with the launch of this project.
The U.S. Investing Championship, founded in 1983 by Norm Zadeh, is an annual trading competition where participants trade real-money accounts and submit periodic broker statements for verification.
I joined the 2025 competition late—three months after it began on January 1, 2025—when several participants had already posted strong year-to-date gains, leaving me with some ground to make up