We spent more than a decade as a forex trader before discovering a simpler truth: macro thinking beats trading noise. That the exact date we became a value investor. Our investing framework focuses on fundamentals, cycles, ratio charts, and technical timing. If you want to understand markets without the Wall Street jargon, follow along.
This chart is a simple but powerful way to show a market truth that most people miss. On one side, you have gold. On the other, you have a broad equal-weighted commodity
This chart is basically a map of which parts of the stock market need the most money just to keep the machine running. At the top, you have utilities, basic resources, telecom,
This chart shows a quiet but very important shift in the plumbing of the global financial system. Foreign central banks are holding a bigger share of their reserves in gold, while their
This chart is a quiet bombshell. What it shows is the share of S&P 500 corporate capex going into two very different parts of the economy: tech and related sectors in black,
This chart shows one of the most important but underappreciated stories in the gold market: the world is finding less and less big gold. Back in the 1990s, major discoveries were coming
This chart tracks two parts of the US bond market from 2021 to early 2026. The blue line is the 3-month Treasury yield, which reflects short-term interest rates and is heavily driven
This chart is telling a very simple but very powerful story. On one side, you have US government debt as a share of GDP climbing over time. On the other, you have
This chart is showing a structural uranium deficit, and that is a very big deal. In plain English, demand for uranium is climbing while supply is failing to keep up. The green
This chart tracks one of the cleanest pulse checks in the whole macro machine: US corporate profits as a share of GDP. In plain English, it shows how much of the economy’s
This chart shows the silver market in its simplest form: how much silver the world produces versus how much the world wants. For years, the market looked fairly balanced. Supply and demand