Risk appetite
Whether capital is moving toward risk or away from it.
MacroVoltAvailable on iOS and Android
Cross-asset macro research
Read the market through a wider lens.
MacroVolt brings 21 major markets into one explainable workflow — combining macro scores, a global regime layer, factor evidence, calendar risk and configurable alerts, so metals, energy and equity indices can be read against the same backdrop.
Educational market research only. Not financial advice.
The regime layer
Context 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.
Dollar
The direction and strength of the US dollar as a global funding currency.
Volatility
How much uncertainty is currently being priced across markets.
Yields
The level and shape of sovereign yields, and how they are shifting.
Growth
The prevailing direction of economic activity data.
Inflation
Whether price pressure is building or easing.
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.
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.
| Period | Regime | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Period 1 | Carry | 5 weeks |
| Period 2 | Transitional | 3 weeks |
| Period 3 | Risk-off | 4 weeks |
| Period 4 | Transitional | 2 weeks |
| Period 5 | Carry | 4 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
What you are actually looking at.
Three of the screens that do most of the work, and what each one is for.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- 7 daysFree
Enough to see the current reading in context.
- 30 daysStarter
Covers a full data cycle across most release schedules.
- 90 daysPro
Spans a quarter, so regime shifts become visible as shifts.
- 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.
- Signal 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
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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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