Macro
The Top Down Investor
Master the CandelaCharts Macro Navigation Framework™ to interpret business cycles, market structure, and liquidity.
The CandelaCharts Macro Navigation Framework™ — A Complete Investor Course
Take your investing to the next level by learning a structured, hierarchical approach to real-time macroeconomic interpretation. This course teaches you how to identify business-cycle turning points before recessions are already underway, restoring sequencing, structure, and discipline to your analysis.
This framework integrates three distinct but complementary analytical layers:
- The Business Cycle Core: Classifies the economy into four phases (Expansion, Slowdown, Contraction, and Recovery) using the systematic sequencing of leading, coincident, and lagging indicators.
- Market Structure: Employs probabilistic multi-asset Elliott Wave analysis to interpret market behavior, trend maturity, and late-cycle overshoot.
- Global Liquidity: Tracks monetary and financial conditions as conditional modifiers that influence the timing and amplitude of the cycle.
What You'll Learn
- The Macro Blind Spot: Why everyone misses recessions in real time and how to fix it.
- Signal Hierarchy: How to resolve conflicts between the business cycle, market structure, and liquidity.
- Indicator Sequencing: Why leading indicators roll over first, coincident indicators confirm, and lagging indicators (like inflation) adjust last.
- Cross-Asset Calibration: How to use multi-asset Elliott Wave analysis to filter out false signals.
- The Watchlist: Build a comprehensive watchlist covering every layer of the framework with tradable proxies (e.g., US10Y, TLT, SPY, DXY, HYG).
Stop navigating by looking backward. Learn a falsifiable, hierarchical method for interpreting macroeconomic reality as it unfolds and protect your portfolio from deep drawdowns.