Market Brief
Your daily context check — calendar, news, sentiment, and positioning to frame the session. When a setup catches your eye, take it into Stock Research and your Journal.
Economic Calendar
Market News
Risk Appetite
Stock Market Fear & Greed
Crypto Fear & Greed
Big Money vs. Small Traders
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Commitment of Traders
Weekly CFTC positioning. Large speculators (non-commercials) tend to follow trends; commercials (hedgers) are usually on the other side. Watch where the smart money is leaning — and the extremes.
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World Markets
Use this page in 5 minutes.
- Scan the Economic Calendar and Market News for today's catalysts.
- Read the Macro & Catalyst Context for what is driving markets right now.
- Take the market's pulse in Risk Appetite — the stock and crypto Fear & Greed gauges.
- Check the Smart Money card under Risk Appetite: are big money and everyday traders leaning the same way?
- Then dig into a ticker in Stock Research and log the trade in your Journal.
Macro & Catalyst Context
What the environment supports today, and what could break it.
The macro backdrop sets which direction is easiest to trade. Catalyst pressure sets how violently that can change. Together they give four states.
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Durable Risk-On
Supportive macro · quiet calendar
Moves tend to hold. Trends get room to work and pullbacks stay shallow.
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Fragile Risk-On
Supportive macro · busy calendar
Direction can keep working, but reversals arrive fast and without much warning.
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Controlled Risk-Off
Restrictive macro · quiet calendar
Weakness that grinds rather than gaps. Orderly, and usually tradeable in both directions.
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Disorderly / Defensive
Restrictive macro · busy calendar
Gaps, volatility spikes and thinner liquidity. The state where position size matters most.
Rules-based orientation for education only — not financial advice, a recommendation, or a forecast.
How broad is this move?The index against its equal weight twin
Reading the index against its equal weight twin...
What this is: the main S&P 500 fund gives the biggest companies the most weight, so a few giants can move it on their own. The equal weight version gives every company the same weight, so it shows what the typical stock did. When the two pull apart, the index move is narrow. This is context for sizing and for reading a move. It is not a buy or sell signal and says nothing about any single stock.