Macro Trading Blueprint
Understand why the market is moving before deciding how to trade it.
A structured macro course for traders who want to understand central banks, inflation, interest rates, currencies, gold and market regimes, without relying on rented signals or disconnected economic headlines.
Your chart may be clear. Your context is missing.
The Blueprint gives you a repeatable way to form the view before choosing the trade.
The macro process
Five stages, from the big picture to the trade. The same process the desk uses to read any market.
Regime
Inflation, growth, liquidity and risk, the environment every trade sits inside.
Central banks
Policy direction, rate expectations and the divergence between them.
Transmission
How it flows into yields, the dollar, currencies, gold, oil and equities.
Expression
Which market best expresses the macro view you have formed.
Execution
Use technical analysis to time the entry and manage the risk.
It is the same read behind the live Macro Regime Board, taught step by step so you can build it yourself.
What you will be able to do
Read central-bank direction
Anticipate policy rather than react to it once the market has already moved.
Prepare for CPI, NFP and FOMC
Go into every major release with a pre-planned framework instead of a guess.
Build a fundamental currency bias
Form a directional view on a pair from the macro up, not the chart alone.
Understand the dollar, yields and gold
See how real rates and the dollar drive gold and risk, and trace the chain.
Select the right market expression
Choose the currency or asset best able to express the view you have formed.
Combine macro with technical execution
Let context set the direction and let technicals time and manage the trade.
The curriculum
Eight modules, each building on the last, from macro fundamentals to a repeatable weekly process.
The macro framework
What macroeconomics is in trading terms, and how the four macro forces connect to price.
Central banks & monetary policy
How central banks move currencies, so you can anticipate direction, not react to it.
Inflation, interest rates & currency direction
The single most important macro input for forex, so you stop being surprised by rate-driven moves.
Economic growth & employment
GDP, employment and retail sales, how to read each data point and what it means for the currency.
How to trade high-impact data
A pre-planned framework for NFP, CPI and FOMC so you go into each event knowing your scenarios.
Combining macro with technical analysis
Build the macro bias, find the pair with the strongest divergence, and use technicals to time the entry.
Gold & the macro framework
Real rates, the dollar, inflation expectations and risk, the four forces that drive gold.
Building your weekly macro process
Prepare for the week, track and update your views, and build it into a repeatable routine.
Inside the Blueprint
Real lessons connecting macro data to price, not slides.
The framework in action
One possible transmission chain the framework would examine:
What the framework examines
Whether the shock lifts real yields and the dollar, how central banks are likely to respond, and which market cleanest expresses the view, rather than trading the headline directly.
What would invalidate it
A fall in real yields, a dovish central-bank turn, or safe-haven demand overwhelming the dollar, any of which flips the read on gold. The point is a process, not a prediction.
Built from years of reading markets professionally
Ken Chigbo has spent 18 years in markets, beginning as an institutional market analyst before moving into independent trading and education.
The Blueprint distils the process he uses to connect economic information with currencies, commodities and price action.
Is the Blueprint for you?
This is for you when
- You understand basic charts but lack macro context
- You struggle to translate news into a market view
- You want a repeatable top-down process
- You are willing to study and apply the framework
It is not for you when
- You want entry signals to copy
- You expect guaranteed returns
- You do not yet know basic trading terminology
- You want a shortcut without doing the analysis
Macro gives you direction. Technicals give you execution.
The Blueprint sits above your technical analysis, it does not replace it. Together they give you a reason to be in the trade and a way to manage it.
The KenMacro Desk
Prefer daily macro analysis and ongoing market coverage rather than a self-directed course? Explore the live desk.
Questions, answered
Is this suitable for beginners?
Basic familiarity with trading helps, you should understand what forex is and how charts work. From there the course builds macro from the ground up.
Is this a signals course?
No. It teaches you the macro layer that sits above your technical analysis so you can form your own view. There are no copy-paste signals and no guarantees.
How many modules are included?
Eight modules, moving from macro fundamentals through to a complete, repeatable weekly process.
Is technical analysis included?
The Blueprint focuses on macro context and shows how it combines with technical execution. For chart-reading fundamentals, Technical Trading 101 covers that in depth.
How is the course accessed?
The course is delivered through Whop with immediate access to all modules once enrolled. The course is self-paced, so completion time depends on your schedule and how deeply you work through each module.
Is access one-time or subscription-based?
The Blueprint is £499, a one-time payment for full course access. There is no subscription.
How do I enrol?
Use any Get the Blueprint button to enrol securely through Whop. You will get immediate access to all eight modules.
Build the framework behind your market view
Eight structured modules covering central banks, inflation, rates, currencies, gold, economic events and top-down market analysis.