Michael A. Gayed, CFA engagement report
@leadlagreport - 772K followers on X
Measured over 105 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 29 interactions against 772K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 105 original posts, its engagement rate beats 22% of 3,716 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 17K times each, and 0.169% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.22% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 105 posts sampled, 55% carry an image or video, 8% are part of a thread and 50% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.9K interactions, about 66x its own typical post.
Measured over 105 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Michael A. Gayed, CFA's engagement rate beats 22% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,716 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 8 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 14% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.004%, Michael A. Gayed, CFA sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,134 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.012%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.431% |
| 90th percentile | 2.11% |
| 99th percentile | 161.6% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 14:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -4% | 49K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 42K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 41K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 47K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 51K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 68K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 71K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 77K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 85K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 93K |
| 14:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 99K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 96K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 89K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 83K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 73K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 65K |
| 22:00 UTC | -1% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 228K |
| Monday | 0% | 281K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 270K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 249K |
| Thursday | -2% | 242K |
| Friday | -3% | 250K |
| Saturday | +3% | 225K |
Best tweets
- Aug 29, 202666x their median
Nvidia just posted record revenue. The stock popped. Everyone's celebrating. Meanwhile, the cost of insuring Nvidia's own debt against default has more than DOUBLED since May. Why would credit markets get nervous about a company printing $96B a quarter? Because Nvidia isn't just selling chips anymore. It's the lender, the guarantor, and the equity investor in the same AI companies buying those chips. When you finance your own customer's ability to pay you, your revenue and your risk become the same number. The stock market cheered the sales. The bond market is pricing the circularity.
- Aug 21, 202647x their median
Have literally cried every night the last 2 weeks from the immense pressure on me. Judge me - I don’t give a fuck. The most struggle I have ever felt in my life. I have to remind myself that this is exactly why I’m closer than ever to achieving my goals, my dreams, my fate.
- Aug 29, 202640x their median
Low IQ people have shocking confidence about the way the world works.
- Aug 17, 202626x their median
I mentioned the Godzilla Margin Call on CNBC. Few. https://t.co/kv0rz7XsL0
- Aug 29, 202625x their median
Every day you wake up, remember someone else did not. You are alive for a reason. Do not give up. Do not give up. Do not relent.
- Aug 23, 202624x their median
Choose suffering. It’s the only way to grow. Goodnight.
- Aug 29, 202618x their median
Nvidia just posted record revenue. The stock popped. Everyone's celebrating. Meanwhile, the cost of insuring Nvidia's own debt against default has more than DOUBLED since May. Why would credit markets get nervous about a company printing $96B a quarter? Because Nvidia isn't just selling chips anymore. It's the lender, the guarantor, and the equity investor in the same AI companies buying those chips. When you finance your own customer's ability to pay you, your revenue and your risk become the same number. The stock market cheered the sales. The bond market is pricing the circularity.
- Aug 30, 202615x their median
May the bridges you burn light the way.
- Aug 29, 202613x their median
The VIX says nothing is wrong. The yen carry trade says otherwise. 1998 (LTCM), 2008 (Lehman), 2024 (BoJ hike) -- three separate crises, three decades apart, and every single one started the same way: calm surface, cheap yen funding leverage underneath, then a VIX spike forced the unwind. That's not a coincidence. That's the mechanism.
- Aug 29, 202611x their median
It’s always fat people who think you don’t need to workout twice a day.
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 29 interactions against 772K followers, an engagement rate of 0.004%. Measured over 105 original posts, its engagement rate beats 22% of 3,716 tracked accounts of a similar size. That is a reason to look at how the audience behaves - reply depth, saves, whether the followers are recent - rather than a conclusion about it on its own. Posts are seen about 17K times each, and 0.169% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.22% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 27% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 105 posts sampled, 55% carry an image or video, 8% are part of a thread and 50% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.9K interactions, about 66x its own typical post.
- What is Michael A. Gayed, CFA's engagement rate on X?
- Michael A. Gayed, CFA (@leadlagreport) has an engagement rate of 0.004%, based on the median interactions across 105 original posts from the last 30 days against 771,961 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.004%, Michael A. Gayed, CFA sits above the 10th percentile of the 36,134 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @leadlagreport have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 22% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,716 accounts), which puts it in the bottom quarter for its size group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @leadlagreport post?
- Most posts go out around 14:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.1 posts per day across the measured window.