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Psychological Reality: Weekly Market Review

February 4, 2025

Canary Capital’s ETF Plans Took Shape Thanks to Trump

February 4, 2025

Fill or Kill: Weekly Market Review

Key Takeaways

  • Digital assets sold off precipitously on a market wide AI tech selloff
  • Periods of uncertainty & low liquidity often claims crypto as the first victim
  • An FOMC meeting & earnings should bring more volatility this week

Digital Asset Commentary

A market wide tech selloff started the week following Friday’s data release which revealed DeepSeek, a low cost, efficient Chinese open source AI model, was outperforming US big tech AI models. Despite this news being released on Friday, digital asset markets had no reaction until US futures markets opened for the week on Sunday night. Cryptocurrency markets are never closed, with lower liquidity on weekends, so when uncertainty grips risk markets, crypto is often a casualty.

Nevertheless, Bitcoin and other digital assets are no strangers to rapid selloffs leading to eventual higher highs throughout the bull market. Many such occurrences in the 2017 bull run helped field the multi-month rally. This week also brings a slew of earnings and a Fed meeting with a 0% chance for rate cuts.

Expectations for Powell’s FOMC presser likely include a mixture of the following; cooling inflation data that has yet to reach the target goal of 2.0% and an unemployment rate that has held at the lower bound with some ancillary employment data only looking mildly concerning. Based on the totality of the data, no rate cuts or hikes are expected any time soon unless labor data worsens or the inflation picture changes dramatically. Even with Trump prodding Powell to lower rates, the Fed is likely to remain independent, at least as long as Powell has the job.

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Steven McClurg

Founder, CEO

Prior to founding Canary, Steven co-founded and served as CIO of Valkyrie Investments, whose public funds business was acquired by CoinShares in 2024. He was previously a Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners, overseeing portfolio strategy for fixed income and private equity. He also founded Theseus Capital (acquired by Galaxy Digital) and served as an MD at Galaxy. Steven holds a Master of Science and MBA from Pepperdine University, where he has served as an adjunct professor.

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Drew Hill

President, CLO

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Jamal Pesaran

Co-Chief Investment Officer

Jamal Pesaran, CFA, is Co-Chief Investment Officer for Canary Capital LLC. With 30 years of investment experience, he has extensive portfolio management, trade execution as well as client-facing experience.

As Senior Portfolio Manager with Guggenheim Partners, Jamal helped build the Guggenheim Equities business and developed the income focused and risk-managed strategies with AUM of over $4 Billion. With Morgan Stanley, as Senior PM and CIO for an Ultra High Net worth team, he managed both Active equity, fixed income strategies as well as overall portfolio allocations across alternative assets. Prior to joining Canary Capital, as Head of Capital Markets for Clifton AI, he helped develop and market a Gen-AI platform for Investment Research. His experience includes extensive portfolio management experience as Senior Equity Options Portfolio Manager, across European, US and Asian markets with Goldman Sachs and UBS Securities. He worked in Equity Derivatives Hedge Fund Sales with Lehman Brothers in New York and HSBC in Hong Kong.

He holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson where he was awarded the Edward Carter Fellowship for academic performance in the top 2% of the class.

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Josh Olszewicz

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