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34 Macro exists because the market was never supposed to be for people like me. I grew up in a one-bedroom apartment in Houston — five people, my parents on the couch, my brother and I sharing a bed. My father came from Ghana with a PhD he earned in Belgium and took two jobs — McDonald’s and a gas station — to keep us going. My mother worked church daycares and babysat wealthy children on the side. We moved from Houston to Mississippi to Maryland, always chasing better schools, always sacrificing comfort for opportunity. In 2003 we bought our first home. That was the first time I understood what their sacrifice actually meant. My father is a scientist. He taught me to think in systems — observation, hypothesis, test, confirm or invalidate. I took that methodology and applied it to markets. My parents became my first investors. They trusted me to manage their retirement accounts. That trust is something I carry into every trade and every piece of research I publish. The Black Star family portfolio on Fidelity has returned over 37% in the past year against the S&P’s 14%. The options portfolio is up over 66%. These aren’t paper numbers — they’re my parents’ retirement. My children’s futures. Real capital managed with real discipline. My technical foundation is built on price action — liquidity, market structure, fair value gaps. My macro layer connects those technical setups to global capital flows, economic regimes, and cross-asset relationships. That bridge between price action and macro data is my edge. Nobody else has built it. 34 Macro is not a signal group. It is not a highlight reel. It is a research and education platform built for the person who was never supposed to be in this room — and decided to walk in anyway. The goal is not for you to depend on me. The goal is for you to not need me.
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