Inflation
CPI, PCE, producer prices, expectations, and how inflation changes rate expectations.
MARKET CONTEXT
Price moves inside an economic and liquidity environment.
The goal is not to predict every release. It is to understand what the market is focused on, when risk changes, and why the same data can matter differently across regimes.
MACRO + SCHEDULED RISK
Read economic data through more than one lens.
Employment
Payrolls, unemployment, wages, jobless claims, vacancies, and labor-market cooling.
Central Banks
Policy rates, forward guidance, yield curves, and the gap between expectations and decisions.
QE / QT
Balance-sheet expansion and contraction, reserves, liquidity, and financial conditions.
GDP & Growth
Growth, consumption, activity surveys, and the interaction between growth, inflation, and policy.
Earnings & Events
Company earnings, guidance, index concentration, major announcements, gaps, and event timing.
THREE TRADING LENSES
Ask how the same release matters across products.
ES Futures
Rates, liquidity, index concentration, session timing, and immediate price response.
SPX / 0DTE
Intraday volatility, gamma sensitivity, time decay, and event timing.
Forex
Rate differentials, central-bank expectations, currency-specific releases, and global risk appetite.
Regime
Interpret the data differently during tightening, QT transition, easing, and QE/liquidity expansion.
CONNECT CONTEXT TO PRICE
Take the macro idea back to the chart.
Use context as one decision layer, then compare it with actual price behavior.