MacroVoltAvailable on iOS and Android

Metals, energy and indices fundamental bias

MacroVolt

See the macro evidence behind 21 markets (gold, silver, oil, gas, copper and the main equity indices), read against the wider economic regime first, with every factor behind a reading shown.

Start free: five markets with their top factors, the economic calendar and the regime overview, with ads. No card, no time limit. Starter adds all 21 markets, factor breakdowns and alerts. Ultimate adds Release Shock and 365-day history. Paid plans remove ads. Compare plans.

MacroVolt research evidence, historical iPhone screen detail
Historical iPhone screen detail. Research context, not a prediction.

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Educational market research only. Not financial advice.

Inside MacroVolt

Metals, energy and index fundamental bias, factor by factor.

Regimes, gold drivers, Release Shock, sector rotation and alerts: what each part of the app shows.

  1. Gold, oil, indices, metals — MacroVolt promotional card showing 21 markets across four asset classes
    01Gold, oil, indices, metals
  2. Know the regime before the headlines — the global macro regime grid with growth and inflation indicators
    02Know the regime before the headlines
  3. Every score, fully explained — factor attribution for an equity index, factor by factor
    03Every score, fully explained
  4. What's really moving gold? — real yields, the dollar, COT and sentiment ranked by impact
    04What's really moving gold?
  5. Previous, forecast, actual — Release Shock sizing a payrolls surprise and the markets it touches
    05Previous, forecast, actual
  6. Follow the money across sectors — sector rotation and futures positioning percentiles
    06Follow the money across sectors
  7. Never miss a macro shift — alerts for bias changes, regime shifts, calendar events and the daily brief
    07Never miss a macro shift
  8. Start with 5 markets — the Free, Starter, Pro and Ultimate levels compared
    08Start with 5 markets

MacroVolt promotional compositions built around unedited app screens. Panels marked as examples are illustrative. Swipe or scroll for more.

Inside MacroVolt

The context behind the number.

Historical app captures. Research context, not a prediction or a recommendation. Features vary by plan.

01

From forecast to release

Review economic surprises and their context across affected markets.

MacroVolt: From forecast to release. Historical iPhone app screenshot.
02

Open the score

Inspect the factors contributing to an instrument's current reading.

MacroVolt: Open the score. Historical iPhone app screenshot.
03

See the economic backdrop

Explore growth and inflation alongside the wider cross-asset picture.

MacroVolt: See the economic backdrop. Historical iPhone app screenshot.
Explore the Release Shock visual guide
MacroVolt Release Shock promotional illustration

Promotional composition from the September preview collection. For the actual interface, use the app captures above. Release Shock is included in MacroVolt Ultimate.

The regime layer

Market regime first, instrument second.

MacroVolt establishes what kind of market you are in before it says anything about a single asset. Seven inputs resolve into one readable state, and every instrument score is then read against it.

01

Risk appetite

Whether capital is moving toward risk or away from it.

02

Dollar

The direction and strength of the US dollar as a global funding currency.

03

Volatility

How much uncertainty is currently being priced across markets.

04

Yields

The level and shape of sovereign yields, and how they are shifting.

05

Growth

The prevailing direction of economic activity data.

06

Inflation

Whether price pressure is building or easing.

07

Confidence

How firmly the other six agree with one another.

Coverage

Twenty-one markets, four asset classes.

3 marketsPrecious metals

Gold, silver and platinum, where real rates and the dollar dominate the macro picture.

3 marketsEnergy

Crude, Brent and natural gas, read against growth, inventories and risk appetite.

10 marketsEquity indices

Benchmarks across the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, each positioned against the prevailing regime.

5 marketsIndustrial metals

Copper, aluminium, nickel, lead and zinc — the cleanest read on industrial demand.

Every instrument runs through the same scoring approach, which is the point: a gold reading and a copper reading are built the same way, so they can be compared directly rather than interpreted through four different mental models.

Gold

A gold macro dashboard on your phone.

Gold's macro drivers on one screen: real yields, the US dollar, futures positioning (COT) and the wider market regime, each shown as a factor with its own contribution next to the technical measures. When the factors pull in different directions, the screen shows the disagreement instead of hiding it.

Factor breakdowns and COT positioning are included from Starter. How to read the gold factor breakdown · Gold and real yields

Regime

Conditions change. The reading should change with them.

The regime is tracked over time rather than asserted once, so a shift is visible as a shift — and a score can be judged against the conditions that produced it.

GLOBAL MACRO REGIME · LAST 18 WEEKSCarry — 5 weeksCarryTransitional — 3 weeksTransitionalRisk-off — 4 weeksRisk-offTransitional — 2 weeksTransitionalCarry — 4 weeksCarryCarryTransitionalRisk-offCrisisGLOBAL MACRO REGIME · LAST 18 WEEKSCarry · 5wTransitional · 3wRisk-off · 4wTransitional · 2wCarry · 4w
Regime timeline. The state markets are trading in is established first, and every instrument-level score is read against it. Schematic; not live data.
Illustrative regime sequence over eighteen weeks
PeriodRegimeDuration
Period 1Carry5 weeks
Period 2Transitional3 weeks
Period 3Risk-off4 weeks
Period 4Transitional2 weeks
Period 5Carry4 weeks

Yield curve

The level and shape of the sovereign curve, and how it is shifting — the cleanest read available on where the market thinks growth and policy are heading.

Growth-cycle quadrant

Places the major economies on a growth-and-momentum grid, so an expansion is distinguishable from a slowdown that has merely stopped getting worse.

Sector rotation

Which parts of the market are attracting capital and which are losing it — often the earliest visible sign that a regime is turning.

Correlation matrix

Where instruments are moving together and where they have decoupled, which is how a broad macro move is told apart from a single-market story.

COT positioning

Commitment-of-traders positioning with history, so crowding is visible before a catalyst rather than explained after one.

Congressional trading

Disclosed trades by US lawmakers, filterable and dated, presented as background context rather than as a signal to act on.

Peer ranking

Where an instrument sits against its own asset class, so a strong reading in a weak group is not mistaken for broad strength.

Top Setups

The instruments currently clearing both a strength and a confidence bar, ranked. It stays empty when nothing qualifies rather than filling the slot with the least-bad option.

Regime playbook

What each regime has historically meant for how instruments behave — read as orientation for the conditions you are in, never as a rule to trade mechanically.

Market pulse

A single strip showing what is moving across the whole covered universe right now, before drilling into any one instrument.

Watchlists and heatmap

Narrow to the instruments you actually follow, or view the full board at once by score and asset class to see where strength is clustering.

Bias follow-through

Tracks how past readings actually resolved across different horizons and regimes — the app grading its own work rather than only presenting it.

Inside the app

Regimes, releases and factor scores, screen by screen.

Start with the economic regime, examine a release, then inspect the factors behind an instrument score. Compare the evidence rather than treating a score as a forecast.

Start with what a fundamental bias is, and how a gold bias differs from a currency bias.

Read the guide to actual, forecast and previous figures before interpreting a release surprise.

Use the economic release reading kit to record one release, its revision and its timing.

Use the market evidence checklist when comparing factors across instruments.

Explore a gold factor breakdown and learn what its contributions do and do not mean.

Read gold alongside real yields and the dollar, with a worked quote-currency example.

Learn how to read the COT report for gold and oil positioning, and what it can't tell you.

MacroVolt economic regime monitor: historical iPhone app capture
MacroVolt economic regime monitor: historical iPhone app capture
MacroVolt Release Shock: historical iPhone app capture
MacroVolt Release Shock: historical iPhone app capture
MacroVolt factor attribution: historical iPhone app capture
MacroVolt factor attribution: historical iPhone app capture

Capabilities

From regime to instrument-level evidence.

One connected system rather than a set of separate screens — the regime informs the scores, the scores open into their factors, and history keeps the reasoning attached.

01

One regime, seven inputs

Risk appetite, the dollar, volatility, yields, growth, inflation and confidence are combined into a single global regime state — the backdrop every instrument-level score is then read against.

02

Attribution down to the factor

Each score opens into its contributing factors, showing direction, relative weight and what moved since the previous reading. A score that changed for one reason looks different from one that changed for six.

03

Cross-asset in one place

Twenty-one instruments across four asset classes share the same scoring approach, so metals, energy, equity indices and industrial metals stay directly comparable rather than needing separate tools.

04

Correlation and confirmation

A correlation view shows where instruments are moving together and where they have decoupled — useful for telling a broad regime shift apart from something specific to one market.

05

History with the reasoning attached

Score history is retained so a current reading can be judged against where it has been, with the factor context preserved rather than reduced to a single line.

06

Positioning and event context

Commitment-of-traders positioning and the economic calendar sit alongside the scores, so crowding and scheduled event risk are part of the same view.

Read more in the full methodology.

Score history

How far back you can look.

History is the main research surface in MacroVolt, so it is the axis that scales most across tiers. The scoring itself is identical on every paid tier — what changes is how much of the past you can hold in view.

  1. 7 daysFree

    Enough to see the current reading in context.

  2. 30 daysStarter

    Covers a full data cycle across most release schedules.

  3. 90 daysPro

    Spans a quarter, so regime shifts become visible as shifts.

  4. 365 daysUltimate

    A full year, including seasonal and cyclical turns.

Methodology

How the model actually works.

The same reference that ships inside the app, summarised. MacroVolt is built for fundamental bias over days and weeks — it is explicitly not a day-trading tool, and it says so in-product.

Smoothing3.5-day half-life
Scores are exponentially smoothed so what you read is the underlying macro tilt rather than the day's price action. This is a fundamental-bias tool, not a day-trading one.
Bias statesForming / confirmed
A directional tilt starting to appear is marked as forming. Only once factors, breadth and reliability align does it become confirmed — the two are never presented as equivalent.
Factor weightingStructural vs tactical
Structural evidence — macro, positioning and inventory — carries roughly a quarter to just under half the weight; tactical volatility and technical evidence carries rather more. The split shifts with conditions.
Stress handlingAsymmetric discount
When volatility spikes, bullish readings drawn from backward-looking macro are discounted hard while bearish readings pass through near full strength, because stressed markets price forward.
Coverage floor25% minimum
If fewer than a quarter of an instrument's factors have data, the score is zeroed rather than published, so a reading is never carried by one or two surviving inputs.
Event gate−60 / +30 min
High-impact releases pause alerts from an hour before to half an hour after, filtered per instrument. Medium-impact events supply context without pausing anything.
Release shock3 phases
A pre-release forecast bias where a reliable baseline exists, a post-release comparison of actual against forecast, and an explicit verdict marking the prior bias confirmed or invalidated.
Self-assessmentFollow-through
Past readings are tracked by horizon and regime, with small samples held in a building state until there is enough evidence to say anything. Historical context, not a promise about the next signal.

Scores describe macro factor alignment, not price targets or entry signals. Follow-through statistics are historical context and are not a reliable indicator of future results. Read the full methodology.

Tiers

Four levels.

The free tier is a limited look at the model. Paid tiers open all 21 instruments, then add alert control, correlation research and finally full history with release-shock and positioning depth.

Compare every tier
  • FreeA limited look at the scoring model.
  • StarterAll instruments, breakdowns and alerts.
  • ProAlert tuning and correlation research.
  • UltimateFull history, release shock and positioning depth.

Questions

MacroVolt, answered.

Can I try MacroVolt before paying?

Yes. The ad-supported free plan covers five markets with their top five factors, the economic calendar and the global regime overview, with no time limit and no payment details. It is the way to try MacroVolt before choosing Starter, Pro or Ultimate. The store confirms the price and billing terms before you subscribe.

How do I manage or cancel a subscription?

Use the subscriptions section of the Apple or Google account used to subscribe. Subscriptions renew until cancelled under the store terms. Uninstalling the app does not cancel a subscription. MacroVolt and MacroMatrixFX have separate subscriptions.

How is MacroVolt different from MacroMatrixFX?

Same discipline, different scope. MacroMatrixFX is built specifically for currencies and the factors that drive them. MacroVolt applies the same explainable, factor-led approach across metals, energy, equity indices and industrial metals, and adds a global regime layer over the top.

What is a market regime?

A summary of the conditions markets are currently trading in — how risk appetite, the dollar, volatility, yields, growth, inflation and confidence line up. The same instrument-level reading can mean different things depending on the regime around it, which is why the regime is shown first.

What is covered?

Twenty-one instruments across four asset classes: precious metals, energy, equity indices, industrial metals.

Why does score history depth differ by tier?

History is the main research surface in MacroVolt, so it is the main thing that scales with tier — from a week on the free tier up to a full year on Ultimate. The scoring itself is identical at every paid tier.

What is the correlation dashboard for?

It shows which instruments are currently moving together and which have broken away from their usual relationship. That helps separate a broad, regime-level move from something specific to a single market.

Does MacroVolt execute trades or connect to a broker?

No. It holds no funds, connects to no brokerage and places no orders. It organises market and macro data for research, and nothing more.

Is any of this financial advice?

No. MacroVolt provides general informational and educational market research. It is not financial, investment, tax or legal advice, and nothing in it is a personalised recommendation.

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