Guided path · Intermediate

Fundamentals & Macro

GDP, inflation, central banks and the economic data releases that move every market.

  • ✓ 10 lessons in order
  • ✓ About 41 minutes
  • ✓ Progress tracked in MarketPro
  • ✓ Free to follow

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The lessons, in order

A path is the academy's answer to "where do I start". The order is deliberate: each lesson assumes the ones above it, which is why reading them this way works better than picking at a category list. In the app the path tracks how far through you are and what comes next.

  1. What Is Fundamental Analysis Markets do not react to a 3.4% inflation rate. They react to a 3.4% print when 3.1% was expected. Beginner4 min
  2. Fundamental Analysis Vs Technical Analysis A correct fundamental view with no timing attached is how traders spend eleven months being right and still losing money. Beginner4 min
  3. Understanding GDP and Economic Growth GDP is the scoreboard, not the game. By release day most of the number has already been reported in monthly data. Beginner4 min
  4. Inflation and the Consumer Price Index The annual inflation rate can fall 0.7 points in a month when current prices barely moved, because the month it is compared… Beginner4 min
  5. The Role of Central Banks A 25 basis point move changes borrowing costs marginally. A signal that six more are coming changes the price of everything. Beginner4 min
  6. How Interest Rate Decisions Move Currency Markets A currency pair prices the gap between two interest rates, and the gap the market expects matters more than the one that exists… Intermediate4 min
  7. Employment Data and Non-Farm Payrolls Payrolls is a fresh survey rather than a summary of data already published, which is why the reaction is measured in seconds. Intermediate4 min
  8. Understanding the Purchasing Managers' Index A manager whose orders rose 1% and one whose orders rose 40% both answer better, and the index counts them identically. Intermediate4 min
  9. Consumer Confidence and Sentiment Indices Confidence surveys measure how people feel. Retail sales measure what they did. The gap between the two can persist for more… Beginner4 min
  10. Yield Curves and Inversions An inverted curve has preceded most US recessions with lead times from six to twenty-three months. That makes it a regime… Advanced5 min

What it draws on

This path pulls from 1 category: fundamental analysis. Each of those pages lists its full set of lessons if you would rather go deep on one subject than move across several.

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