Independent Research & Commentary

Market Strategist for
Institutional Clients

Daily macro and cross-asset commentary for broker-dealers, trading platforms, and financial media — ready to integrate with your workflow and deliver immediately.
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The engagement process
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Step 1
Discovery
We identify your firm's needs — commentary cadence, research scope, target audience, compliance requirements.
Step 2
Scope & Terms
Define deliverables, frequency, and engagement terms. Daily commentary, weekly research, or project-based work.
Step 3
Integration
I integrate with your workflow — your CMS, your editorial calendar, your compliance process. No ramp-up.
Step 4
Delivery
Ongoing production of institutional-quality research and commentary, on schedule, to spec.
Analysis that spans the silos
Hover over any area to explore. My work spans disciplines typically divided across different desks.
Cross-Asset
Strategy
Derivatives
Options & Vol
Plumbing
Liquidity & Rates
Charting
Technical Analysis
Catalysts
Fundamentals
Options Market Structure

Gamma exposure, dealer positioning, volatility regimes, implied correlation, dispersion dynamics, skew, and term structure — the derivatives mechanics that drive price action beneath the surface of the cash tape.

The mechanics behind the tape
Most desks read price. I read the plumbing — the funding flows, settlement mechanics, and dollar-funding stress signals that decide whether risk assets have a real bid. These are the mechanics I track every trading day to identify regime shifts and pockets of stress before they show up in price.
Treasury

TGA Mechanics

How Treasury General Account drawdowns and rebuilds add or drain reserves from the banking system, and why refunding announcements move risk assets through the liquidity channel rather than the rate channel.

Funding

Repo & RRP Volumes

Tri-party and bilateral repo activity, SOFR vs. IORB spreads, the Fed's reverse repo facility as a marginal cash sink, and what flows between these venues say about collateral scarcity and dealer balance sheets.

Cross-Currency

Basis as Funding Proxy

USD/JPY and EUR/USD cross-currency basis swaps as a clean readout of offshore dollar-funding stress — the early-warning gauge that often moves before equity volatility responds.

Reserves

Bank Reserves & LCLOR

The lowest-comfortable level of reserves debate, balance-sheet runoff (QT) versus organic reserve growth, and the conditions under which the funding markets actually start to feel tight.

Volatility

Liquidity-Driven Vol

How funding stress, dealer hedging, and gamma positioning interact — why the same headline produces a different volatility response in a high-liquidity regime than in a tight one.

Cross-Asset

Liquidity & Risk Assets

The empirical link between Fed and Treasury balance-sheet flows and the S&P 500, credit spreads, and the dollar — useful as a regime filter, not as a timing tool.

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Bridging market knowledge and clear communication
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Translation

Complex financial topics into clear narratives.

Institutional macro, options flow, and cross-asset relationships — communicated for professional audiences who need clarity, not jargon.

Distribution

Multi-channel content architecture.

Newsletter, social, web, and syndication — structured for reach and engagement across platforms your clients already use.

Education

Long-form evergreen explainers.

Deep-dive write-ups on TGA mechanics, repo and reverse repo flows, cross-currency basis, gamma exposure, and dealer hedging — the kind of evergreen reference content that builds subscriber loyalty and ranks in search.

Growth

Audience development strategy.

Financial content optimized for discovery, engagement, and conversion — built on 10+ years of growing audiences across every major platform.

Why Firms Work With Me

You get an analyst who already publishes institutional-quality research every trading day. No training period, no learning curve, no benefits overhead. I integrate into your workflow and deliver immediately.

Michael J. Kramer

Founder of Mott Capital Management. I publish institutional-quality macro commentary every trading day and have done so for over a decade.

My work is syndicated across Investing.com, TalkMarkets, and Seeking Alpha, and has been cited by MarketWatch and published in Investopedia. 270,000+ followers across platforms, 2M+ annual page views.

I cover equities, rates, FX, commodities, volatility, and derivatives — connecting the dots across asset classes that most desks treat separately.

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Let's work together

Contract research, market commentary, or a content strategy built from scratch — I step in with no ramp-up time.