Learn
Macro, markets, and workflow guides
Plain-language explanations of the indicators, mechanics, and routines that institutional macro and event-driven investors use every day. Each guide pairs the concept with a current example and a link to the live tool.
How to
- How to build a morning macro routineA repeatable 5-minute pre-market framework.
- How to read a headline-driven vol spikeWhen a vol spike is sellable and when it isn't.
- How oil shocks hit marketsPass-through chain from crude to rates, equities, FX.
- How to track Fed policyStatements, dots, speeches, and the implied path.
- How to read credit spreadsHY OAS, IG, and what spread moves signal.
- How to trade CPI dayPre-print setup and post-print reaction chain.
- How to trade FOMC dayStatement, dots, presser, and the 3 PM settle.
- How to trade NFP dayBeyond the headline: revisions, wages, U-rate.
- How geopolitical shocks move marketsThe transmission chain from event to assets.
- Macro impact on dividendsHow rate regimes change dividend sustainability across sectors.
Indicators
- What is CPI?The Consumer Price Index, explained.
- What is PCE?The Fed's preferred inflation measure.
- What is the yield curve?Curve shapes and what they signal.
- What is the 10Y-2Y spread?The most-watched recession indicator.
- What is HY OAS?High-yield spread as cyclical signal.
- What is the VIX?How implied vol works and where it misleads.
- What is the DXY?The US Dollar Index, broken down.
- What is real yield?TIPS, breakevens, and the discount rate.
- What is breakeven inflation?Market-implied inflation expectations.
- What is the Fed funds rate?The US policy rate, how it's set.
- What is NFP?US Non-Farm Payrolls, beyond the headline.
- What is the ISM PMI?Manufacturing and services as cycle indicators.
- What is the Sahm Rule?Real-time recession trigger.