Macro research you can check

Keeping up with the macro side of forex is a job in itself: eight central banks, dozens of data releases a week, and a constant stream of headlines. Most traders skip it, and find out the hard way when a clean chart setup runs into a currency the macro is pushing the other way.

MacroSetup does the reading, every trading day, and shows the conclusion with the reasons, in a few minutes a day.

It started as one trader's weekend. Mike, who built MacroSetup, did this reading by hand before every trading week, and it took him the whole weekend. So he built a tool to do it for him, every trading day. More about Mike.

• Research, not signalsMacroSetup says which way the macro leans and why. It gives no entries, stops or targets, and it never tells you what to buy or sell.
• The same for everyoneEveryone sees the same analysis at the same moment. Free shows part of it, Premium all of it. No private tips, no answers about your own trades.
• Open about the whatWhat goes into a score, how much each part weighs, the reasons and sources behind every score, and every change in the update log.
• Private about the howThe exact rules, thresholds and working process stay in-house, so the research cannot simply be copied.
• Results in the openEvery day's top 3 setups are checked against price, misses included. No promises about returns, ever.

Primary sources come first: central bank statements and minutes, official statistics, and market prices. Four pillars add up to a score from 0 to 100 per currency: risk sentiment, fundamentals, geopolitics and price strength. The full outlook comes out every Sunday, before the market opens, with updates through the trading day and after major news.

Read the methodology for what goes into a score, or see how results are measured.

Mike has traded the forex market for eight years, across all 28 pairs of the eight major currencies. Before MacroSetup he did the macro side by hand: every weekend he went through the central banks, the data and the risk mood of all eight currencies, and it took him the whole weekend. He built MacroSetup for himself first.

He built the model and the research system that runs it, and decides what goes into it. The system writes the daily research and drafts the weekly and monthly reviews on a fixed schedule; scripts recheck every figure before anything is published, and Mike reads it afterwards. How the research is written and checked is on the methodology page. He trades with the same research members see, at the same moment.

He gives no personal advice and does not answer questions about individual trades. Everyone gets the same analysis.

MacroSetup is registered in the Netherlands. The full company details are on the company details page, and the ways to reach us on the contact page.