Macro & Intermarket
The four numbers that decide whether risk is being bought or sold, and the calendar that decides when the chart stops being the evidence.
The engine reads VIX, the 2s10s curve, high-yield spreads and the dollar into a regime, caps a grade when a company reports, and now carries a release calendar — none of which any lesson explained. A student who does not know what a regime is cannot argue with one.
- 1Risk-on and risk-off, definednot written yet
Replace a vibe with four observable series.
Checkpoint: — - 2VIX: what it is and is notnot written yet
Implied volatility is not fear, and not a forecast.
Checkpoint: — - 3The yield curve in one lessonnot written yet
Read 2s10s without an economics degree.
Checkpoint: Call the grade - 4Credit spreads as an early warningnot written yet
Why high-yield turns before equities do.
Checkpoint: Mark the chart - 5The dollar as the denominatornot written yet
Track why everything moves at once.
Checkpoint: — - 6Scheduled releases and the horizon rulenot written yet
Decide whether your trade survives a print.
Checkpoint: Sequence - 7Earnings: a different instrumentnot written yet
Holding through a print is not a worse setup, it is another one.
Checkpoint: Spot the trap - 8What macro cannot timenot written yet
Regime is a filter, never a trigger.
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The concepts here are applied in the Trade Playbook, and the engine that grades them is taken apart in how AI chart analysis works.