Macro and Fundamentals for Traders
A path on how the macro backdrop and scheduled fundamental events actually move price for an active trader: why markets are forward-looking and trade the surprise rather than the headline, how to read the economic calendar and consensus, the major drivers (interest rates and central banks, inflation and growth data, risk-on and risk-off regimes, the dollar and safe havens), how to behave in the hostile minutes around a release, and the honest limits of macro, which sets context, bias, and risk windows but never times entries. Taught with heavy qualification because macro narratives are seductive and routinely wrong.
- Module 1reader
How Markets Price Information
Why markets are forward-looking and already reflect what is expected, how to read the economic calendar and the consensus it is benchmarked against, and what drives the size of the repricing move when an outcome surprises.
- Module 2reader
The Macro Drivers
The handful of forces that move whole markets at once: interest rates and central bank guidance, the inflation and growth data that shift rate expectations, the risk-on and risk-off regimes that synchronise assets, and the dollar and safe havens at the centre of it all.
- Module 3reader
Trading Around Events
How to behave in practice: the hostile minutes around a release and the case for standing aside, how crowded positioning and sentiment set up reversals, and the honest limits of macro as context rather than a trade signal.