Ten questions that matter going into 2026
What a year! Donald Trump’s return to the United States (US) Presidency was no doubt what led financial markets throughout 2025. His not-always-unexpected or surprising decisions shaped investors’ sentiment, or better said, unprecedented uncertainty.
The US Dollar (USD) enters the new year at a crossroads. After several years of sustained strength driven by US growth outperformance, aggressive Federal Reserve (Fed) tightening, and recurrent episodes of global risk aversion, the conditions that underpinned broad-based USD appreciation are beginning to erode, but not collapse.
The Mexican Peso (MXN) has appreciated sharply against the US Dollar (USD) in 2025, poised for a 23% gain amid an environment of trade uncertainty and increasing geopolitical tensions between Mexico and the United States governments.
Diversification was rewarded in 2025: Gold led, non-US equities outperformed the S&P 500, and broad commodities ex-energy did well. The expected leaders didn’t repeat: Bitcoin cooled, the US Dollar weakened, and energy lagged despite broader commodity strength.
The mental edge in trading is often described in vague terms such as confidence, discipline, or emotional control. In professional trading environments, the mental edge is defined far more precisely.
I ask both ChatGPT and Claude to come up with trading indicators and then code them for me to test which AI will make me $1000.