Michael A. Gayed, CFA engagement report
@leadlagreport - 770K followers on X
Measured over 81 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 29, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 42 interactions against 770K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 81 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 17K times each, and 0.254% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.14% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% 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 81 posts sampled, 69% carry an image or video and 44% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 34K interactions, about 820x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #goat, #hamstersunite, #hamsterunite.
Measured over 81 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 29, 2026. Recurring tags: #goat, #hamstersunite, #hamsterunite.
Compared with accounts its own size
Michael A. Gayed, CFA's engagement rate beats 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 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 18% 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 0.005%, Michael A. Gayed, CFA sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,694 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the bottom 25% band, which runs below 0.024%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.677% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
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% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 69% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 44% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 69% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 44% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 253 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Sep 10, 2026820x their median
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- Aug 29, 202645x 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, 202632x 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, 202628x their median
Low IQ people have shocking confidence about the way the world works.
- Sep 9, 202625x their median
Unite with me followers. I believe we are on the verge of everything I have been screaming about unfolding. Make this your profile picture. Defend me. Be with me. It’s more than some market call. I have endured so much shit for so long. Hamsters Unite. https://t.co/M63OwZxFO0
- Sep 10, 202621x their median
It’s not some market call. The reverse carry trade is so much more to me than any of you can understand. It has enormous ramifications on me. And I think it begins in earnest next week. I’ll get hatred if it doesn’t. I don’t care anymore. I suffered too much to let it go.
- Sep 27, 202620x their median
You fuckers think because I was wrong about my reverse carry trade timing I’m going to change my profile pic again. Your hamster don’t know me son.
- Sep 10, 202619x their median
Phase 1 of the reverse carry trade was always about long duration yields rising because of Japan dumping Treasuries to save the Yen. Phase 2 is a global stock market crash that brings back the flight to safety trade in Treasuries. The return of risk off. And my redemption.
- Aug 17, 202618x their median
I mentioned the Godzilla Margin Call on CNBC. Few. https://t.co/kv0rz7XsL0
- Aug 29, 202618x 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.
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.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 42 interactions against 770K followers, an engagement rate of 0.005%. Measured over 81 original posts, its engagement rate beats 26% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 17K times each, and 0.254% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.14% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 5.3 posts a day over the last 30 days, though only 37% 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 81 posts sampled, 69% carry an image or video and 44% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 34K interactions, about 820x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #goat, #hamstersunite, #hamsterunite.
- What is Michael A. Gayed, CFA's engagement rate on X?
- Michael A. Gayed, CFA (@leadlagreport) has an engagement rate of 0.005%, based on the median interactions across 81 original posts from the last 30 days against 770,368 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.005%, Michael A. Gayed, CFA sits above the 10th percentile of the 204,694 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 26% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range 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 5.33 posts per day across the measured window.