About Me
My name is Dmitry Buriko. I am a former VP, Treasurer of a large Fortune 500 company where my team managed billions of dollars in FX and interest rate derivatives, completed multiple public debt offerings, invested assets in multi-billion defined benefit pension plan, and managed global corporate liquidity. I left my corporate job in early 2025 to focus on trading full time, using discretionary macro investing approach
What is Macro Speculator
Macro Speculator is my personal project that I created to document my trading journey, share my daily views on the markets and demonstrate how I trade my macro views in the real-money Model Account. I am not a financial advisor and I am not trying to sell anything. Macro Speculator is a public trading journal of my personal account performance, with periodic updates posted on my YouTube channel, X, and this website
What is a Model Account
Model Account is a real money broker account that I started trading in April 2025 with an initial balance of $300,000. I post screenshots of my daily trades as well as market thoughts on the Trading Updates page and X at the end of each trading day; I also post videos on my YouTube channel periodically to add additional context. Summary of my performance, as well as broker statements are posted on the Performance page
US Investing Championship
I enrolled my Model Account into US Investing Championship in April, 2025, at the same time when I started this project.
US Investing Championship was started in 1983 by Norm Zadeh, and is an annual trading competition that requires participants to trade real-money accounts and periodically submit broker statements for verification.
I entered 2025 competition late, three months after it started on January 1, 2025, when multiple participants already had solid year-to-date gains, so I had some catching up to do.