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- Nov 04, 2026
Is the AI Bubble Bursting? What the October 2026 Tech Selloff Is Really Pricing
Investors are repricing who pays for AI capex once free cash flow turns negative and the Fed is hiking.
- Nov 02, 2026
Data Cleaning Part 3: Look-Ahead Bias and Survivorship Bias in Backtesting
For every backtest there are two default assumptions. First, the backtest engine knew only what was knowable at the moment of execution. Second, the engine saw every liquid stock that was available to trade at that moment.
MEMBERS - Oct 31, 2026
Bitcoin On-Chain Analysis: The $80K Cost Basis Every ETF Holder Is Watching
Bitcoin is pinned between institutional cost basis near $80K and long-term holder supply at $85K.
- Oct 23, 2026
Order Flow Trading for Beginners 03: Open Types, Day Types and Market Context
Whether a footprint signal works depends on the open, the initial balance and the liquidity behind it.
MEMBERS - Oct 15, 2026
How to Trade Economic Data 02: Inflation, CPI, PPI and PCE
The Fed announces its next decision on October 28. September PCE, the inflation gauge the Fed targets, comes out on October 29.
MEMBERS - Oct 14, 2026
ZMacro Weekly: September CPI and 5% 10-Year Treasury Yield
Headline CPI runs hot on gasoline; the 10-year’s 5.24% is a long-end problem a soft core print won’t fix.
MEMBERS - Oct 09, 2026
Order Flow Trading for Beginners 02: Footprint Settings, Setups and Position Sizing
Order flow becomes tradable once the data, settings, levels and position size are fixed before the open.
- Oct 04, 2026
Contango vs Backwardation: How to Read the Futures Curve
Contango prices surplus, backwardation prices scarcity, and roll yield pays only when spot defies the curve.
- Oct 01, 2026
Iron Butterfly Options Strategy: IV, Greeks and Real Trades
The iron butterfly profits only when implied volatility overprices the move that follows.
MEMBERS - Sep 30, 2026
Why Is Gold Falling? The Iran War, the Fed Hike and the Real-Yield Math Behind Gold's 2026 Selloff
Gold is falling because the Iran war's oil shock pushed the Fed into hiking and lifted the US 10-year real yield to 2.90%, its highest level since 2008.
MEMBERS - Sep 30, 2026
High IV vs Low IV: Implied Volatility Explained for Options Traders
The benchmarks are the contract’s own historical range, the realized volatility of the stock, and the term structure of the chain, and that diagnosis determines which Greeks are on your side and what trade structure makes sense.
MEMBERS - Sep 26, 2026
How to Trade Economic Data: Reading JOLTS, PMI and Payrolls Like a Macro Trader (Part 1)
Market reaction to economic releases is driven by surprise magnitude, calendar timing, and the specific Fed-focused component, rendering headline numbers virtually useless.
- Sep 24, 2026
10-Year Yield Hits 5%: What It Means For The AI Trade
Candlesticks compress thousands of trades into four prices, and order flow tools recover the buying and selling that the candle leaves out.
- Sep 16, 2026
HORMUZ IS THE BEST LEVERAGE ON EARTH
It only takes one low-cost attack to damage trillions.
MEMBERS - Sep 13, 2026
Macro Weekly | The New Hiking Cycle
All alpha is generated when markets shift paradigms.
MEMBERS - Aug 23, 2026
Alpha & Risk Log 01 | 08.23.2026: The Global Dollar Deadlock
A changing paradigm in volatility, rates, and flow — and why most of the market hasn't priced it yet.
MEMBERS - Aug 18, 2026
Weekly Macro | The Fed Faces Three Flashpoints This Week Markets Are Priced for None of Them
FOMC minutes, a Fed governor's board fight, and Warsh's first Jackson Hole keynote land in the same eight days, while the VIX curve prices the outcome as a foregone conclusion.
MEMBERS - Aug 17, 2026
Dr. Copper's Four Ratios Gold, silver, oil, and the COMEX-LME spread
Evaluating copper's true macro position requires stepping away from the outright price and assessing four critical cross-asset ratios: copper against gold, copper across exchanges, copper against silver, and copper against crude oil.
MEMBERS - Aug 10, 2026
MACRO WEEKLY | GOLD’S FOUR PRICES: WHY BULLION BECAME THE PhD OF THE MACRO MARKET
Central banks bought at a record pace, real yields fell, the dollar stayed on the back foot, and the tape still spent August unwinding a January blow-off top.
MEMBERS - Aug 06, 2026
Forced Sellers Move Markets More Than Headlines Do
The 2022 UK gilt crisis, the August 2024 VIX spike, and every quarterly index rebalance trace back to the same mechanism — someone running out of room to wait
- Aug 06, 2026
The Carry Trade That Could Break the Treasury Market: Inside Japan's Yen Defense and the 2026 Unwind Risk
Intervention bought Tokyo three weeks. The carry trade that funds half the world's risk appetite is already back near record size — and this time the exit runs straight through the US Treasury market.
MEMBERS - Aug 03, 2026
TWO AUTHORITIES ARE BLUFFING. THE MARKET IS ABOUT TO FIND OUT WHICH ONE FOLDS FIRST
The BOJ signals hikes it can't deliver while defending the yen. OPEC+ stops even pretending to defend a floor.
MEMBERS - Aug 02, 2026
Yen Intervention Meets the AI Debt Wall
Three systems that were never built to absorb each other — a strengthening yen, a Fed that has stopped explaining itself, and an AI credit chain running on circular financing — are converging on the same six weeks.
MEMBERS - Aug 01, 2026
Bessent's Notepad Said "Buy Japanese Yen, $5–10 Billion." The Treasury Hasn't Done That Since 2011.
Hours later, the U.S. moves on it — the first time Washington has intervened to prop up the yen since the 2011 tsunami relief effort.