Discretionary macro & multi-asset trader based in Dubai — managing institutional capital at a private family office, and the person behind Lumley Trading.
I'm a discretionary macro investor and multi-asset trader based in Dubai. I currently manage institutional capital across multiple investment mandates at a private family office, applying a research-driven framework that integrates macroeconomic analysis, fundamental research, technical positioning and disciplined risk management.
My expertise spans equities, derivatives, commodities and global macro markets, with a focus on identifying high-conviction opportunities arising from shifts in economic conditions, policy regimes, market structure and investor behaviour. I hold a first-class honours degree in Financial Trading & Investment Management, with roughly six years of trading experience and two in an institutional context.
Before joining the family office, I worked in Global Dealing at Skybound Wealth Management, where I built a new execution framework that reduced operational errors by 92% across more than 6,000 client portfolios, and contributed to investment-committee discussions on asset allocation, portfolio construction and market strategy. Earlier roles included funded futures and options trading with proprietary firms, a futures internship at Zishi Cornerstone / OSTC in London, and a rotational internship at J.P. Morgan in New York.
I created Lumley Trading to give investors direct insight into the research, decision-making and portfolio-management process behind my approach — combining a transparent live trade log, original macro research, a full markets & commodities manual, and a set of the same calculators I use to size and stress-test positions.
The Trade Log shows live positions and closed trades as percentage and portfolio-weighted contribution. Research Notes sets out the macro reads and frameworks behind those decisions. The Manual is a complete, desk-level reference across asset classes, and the Tools are the calculators I rely on day to day.
Approach: top-down macro view first, expressed through the cleanest instrument, sized by risk rather than conviction, with a pre-defined level that proves the thesis wrong. The reasoning is published openly so it can be judged on its merits.