Annual performance update- year 12

This is how I started last years update: "Mad out there isn't it? Tarrifs on/off/on/partially off/on... USD/SP500/Gold/US10/Bitcoin all yoyoing like crazy." Well the orange peril is still at it, and as I write this the global supply of oil has been severly curtailed for several weeks now; with a certain amount of reaction in oil futures (which some of it perhaps supressed since apparently "cash on…