Macro first. Then the chart.
Read the macro.
Trade the direction.
Most traders start with a pattern and hope the market agrees. KriekTrade starts with the macro regime — the Fed, the 18.6-year cycle, risk appetite — and only then looks for a setup that goes the same way.
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Free explainers and a daily snapshot built from official data. Original analysis, sources cited, no hype.
Today’s macro regime
Risk gauge, Fed policy rate, Treasury curve, CPI and jobs from official sources.
How Does the Fed Affect the Forex Market?
Rate differentials, surprises and risk appetite in plain English.
CPI and the Stock Market
Why an inflation report moves prices, and why the same number can do opposite things.
The 18.6-Year Real Estate Cycle
Two centuries of land-and-credit history, five phases and the limits of the idea.
One platform for the whole macro-to-trade process
KriekTrade puts the economic picture and the trade plan on the same screen, so you never have to guess whether a chart pattern is swimming with the tide or against it.
Daily macro briefing
The Fed, inflation, growth and risk appetite in plain English, with the market risk gauge and the week-ahead economic calendar.
Rules-based scanner
Forex, indices, commodities, crypto, stocks and ETFs scanned every hour, with entry, stop and target for confirmed setups.
Fibonacci strategies
The same structure drawn on every chart — A, B, retracement and target — so you can see why a setup exists.
Backtester & paper trading
Check how the strategies behaved on our own candle history before you risk a cent, then practise in paper trading.
Signal EA, one chart
Attach the EA to one chart and it follows every aligned symbol your broker offers, with a cap on open trades and your own risk per trade.
Live webinars
A weekly session walking through the macro picture and the setups on the board, with recordings for members.
The rule behind every setup
Trades only count when they agree with the daily trend and the long-term cycle. Everything else waits.
Buy
Only when price closed above its daily 45-EMA — and the 18.6-year cycle allows buying.
Sell
Only when price closed below its daily 45-EMA — and the cycle allows selling.
How members use it
Read the regime
Start the day with the briefing: risk-on or risk-off, which direction the cycle allows.
Scan for aligned setups
Filter the scanner to confirmed setups with at least 1:1.5 reward to risk.
Plan, test, execute
Check the chart and the backtest, size the trade in the risk calculator, then trade it — by hand or with the EA.
Built by a currency strategist
Macroeconomics Live and KriekTrade are the work of Tian Kriek, a trader and currency strategist since 2004. He spent nine and a half years as Senior Currency Strategist at Market Traders Institute, where he was named Currency Strategist & Instructor of the Year 2017, before founding KriekTrade.
- Approach
- Macro regime first, technical setup second, risk always defined.
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