How rates, growth, inflation and liquidity move indices, bonds, FX and gold; what central banks and the data calendar actually release and when; how to read a decision in a minute; and how to trade around events with defined risk without turning into a pundit.
Module 1: How macro moves markets
The four forces, why markets trade surprises rather than levels, why good news is sometimes bad news, and the reaction function that ties it together.
Module 2: Central banks
The Fed's tools and meeting cycle, dot plots, statements versus pressers and minutes, how the ECB, BoE, BoJ and RBA differ, and reading a decision in sixty seconds.
Module 3: The data calendar
CPI and PCE, the jobs report and its internals, GDP, ISM and PMI, retail sales, claims and housing, plus release times, revisions, consensus and the whisper.
Module 4: Bonds and the curve for equity traders
Yields and duration intuition, the 2s10s curve and what inversions do and do not predict, real yields, breakevens and the term premium.
Module 5: Trading around events
Deciding whether to trade a release at all, the first-move fake-out, spread and slippage during data, positioning with defined risk, event setups and the post-event log.
Module 6: Building a macro view without becoming a pundit
A weekly checklist, the primary sources, a four-regime table with historical tendencies, and how macro should and should not change your position size.
Educational content, not financial advice.