Hammerhead Financial Strategies, LLC

Hammerhead Financial Strategies provides discretionary portfolio management, financial planning and ad hoc consulting for a small, primarily high‑net‑worth client base. The firm reports roughly $3.8 million in discretionary AUM across ten client accounts and offers both ongoing management and standalone planning engagements.

The firm’s investment approach is active and opportunistic, relying on proprietary trading methodologies and a mix of strategies (Technical Momentum and Asset Allocation) that draw on fundamental, technical and behavioral analysis, including social‑media driven trading signals. Holdings tend to be higher‑beta equities (often small‑cap), traded across short and long time frames, with cash reserves and diversification used as primary risk controls and occasional use of inverse or leveraged ETFs for hedging.

Distinctive features disclosed in the brochure include a formal performance‑based fee program (a negotiable base fee plus 20% of annual trading profits above a high‑water mark, with regulatory eligibility thresholds) and explicit acknowledgment of leverage and borrowing considerations (discussion of leveraged/inverse ETFs and custodial margin interest). The firm also discloses an affiliated subscription market‑commentary business and outside publishing activity by a principal that can occupy a substantial portion of his time, and the firm’s filings indicate it serves a material non‑U.S. client segment.