^GSPC$7,425.00+0.59%^IXIC$24,994.90+0.98%^DJI$42,471.27-0.23%^VIX$27.01+0.90%^STOXX50E$67.14+0.54%BTC-USD$79,555.89-1.15%ETH-USD$2,260.79-0.59%SOL-USD$90.95-3.52%AAPL$300.05+1.78%MSFT$403.95-0.94%NVDA$226.18+2.45%TSLA$448.26+3.42%META$615.92+2.14%GOOGL$402.41+3.89%AMZN$269.22+1.28%AMD$448.68+0.09%EURUSD$1.1705-0.31%GC$4,688.19-0.58%CL$101.92-1.09%^GSPC$7,425.00+0.59%^IXIC$24,994.90+0.98%^DJI$42,471.27-0.23%^VIX$27.01+0.90%^STOXX50E$67.14+0.54%BTC-USD$79,555.89-1.15%ETH-USD$2,260.79-0.59%SOL-USD$90.95-3.52%AAPL$300.05+1.78%MSFT$403.95-0.94%NVDA$226.18+2.45%TSLA$448.26+3.42%META$615.92+2.14%GOOGL$402.41+3.89%AMZN$269.22+1.28%AMD$448.68+0.09%EURUSD$1.1705-0.31%GC$4,688.19-0.58%CL$101.92-1.09%
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Practical guides, no jargon.

Eight starter guides on the topics traders ask about most. Each is around 5 minutes. More land every week.

Narratives
4 min read

How to read a market narrative

A practical breakdown of what makes a market narrative useful, how to spot the dominant one early, and which signals tell you when a narrative is about to flip.

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5 min read

What is a narrative trade

How narrative trades differ from value, momentum and event-driven trades, when they work, and the discipline required to exit them before the consensus does.

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4 min read

How to use the Source Agreement matrix

What the source agreement matrix at /trends/media shows, how the consensus percentage is calculated, and how traders read high-agreement versus low-agreement narratives differently.

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Volatility
4 min read

How to interpret the VIX

What the VIX actually measures, how to read its level vs realised volatility, the regimes that matter, and why the slope of the VIX curve often tells you more than the spot number.

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5 min read

How traders use the Fear & Greed index

What goes into a Fear & Greed composite, why our build uses VIX (50%), S&P daily change (30%) and BTC (20%), and how to act on extreme readings without becoming a permabear or permabull.

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Options
5 min read

What is an options chain and how to read one

The basic anatomy of an options chain, what each column means (bid, ask, mark, IV, OI, volume, delta), and how to spot the strikes where positioning is concentrated.

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AI in markets
5 min read

How AI is changing market analysis

What language models can and cannot do for market analysis in 2026, the three workflows where they win today, and the failure modes you have to actively manage when integrating them.

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Rates & Macro
6 min read

How to read Fed minutes (in 10 minutes)

Where to find Fed minutes, the three sections worth your time, and the language patterns that historically move the curve when they appear.

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