Episode 4 – Eight Pillars of Market Movement | Financial Source Podcast

In this episode of the Financial Source Podcast, we continue our multi-part series designed to teach macro fundamentals from the ground up. If you're new to economics, trading, or financial markets, this is the perfect place to build a strong foundation.

Today’s deep dive focuses on the Eight Pillars of Market Movement — the core forces that drive price action across currencies, stocks, bonds, and commodities. Every trader eventually faces the same frustration: clean setups fail, strong economic data gets ignored, and markets move in completely unexpected directions.
This episode explains why.

We break down the eight essential lenses you need to understand market behaviour:

1️⃣ Global Macro Themes – Long-term storylines that shape entire market eras
2️⃣ Monetary Policy – Central bank decisions, rate expectations, QE/QT, and the power of guidance
3️⃣ Economic Data – Why markets react to surprises, not headlines
4️⃣ Fiscal Policy – Government spending, taxation, and structural long-term shifts
5️⃣ Intermarket Analysis – How bonds, equities, currencies, and commodities influence each other
6️⃣ Geopolitics – Shocks, wars, elections, and global uncertainty regimes
7️⃣ Technicals & Positioning – Timing, sentiment extremes, liquidity traps, and squeezes
8️⃣ Supply & Demand – Physical constraints that override macro narratives

You’ll learn how these drivers rotate in importance, how correlations can break down (like in 2021–2022 when bonds and stocks crashed together), and how identifying the dominant pillar helps you anticipate market moves instead of reacting to them.

If you want to understand why markets behave the way they do — and how professionals read shifting narratives — this episode will give you the framework you need.

📌 Highlights Covered:

Why strong data can lead to market sell-offs

How central bank messaging instantly moves global assets

Why fiscal policy gets priced long before it impacts the economy

Chain reactions across bonds, equities, FX and commodities

How geopolitical shocks rewrite the market script

The role of positioning in violent squeezes

Supply shocks in commodities (oil, gas, copper, coffee etc.)

How a single dominant theme can override decades of correlations

🎧 Listen to more episodes and follow the full macro fundamentals series.
Each upcoming episode explores one pillar in detail so you can build a deep, practical understanding of macro drivers.

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