Here's an uncomfortable truth: the single biggest driver of asset prices isn't earnings, technicals, or Twitter sentiment. It's monetary policy.

The Fed's balance sheet went from $4T to $9T in two years. That wasn't a footnote — it was the entire story behind the 2020-2021 bull run. And when they reversed course? Every asset class got crushed.

Most retail traders are playing checkers while the Fed plays chess. They're staring at candle charts while ignoring the one institution that literally controls the price of money.

Here's what actually moves markets:

• Federal Funds Rate decisions (and more importantly, the dot plot)

• Quantitative tightening vs. easing cycles

• Inflation expectations vs. actual CPI/PCE prints

• Treasury yield curve inversions and what they signal

• Forward guidance language changes (every word matters)

If you can't explain how the reverse repo facility works or why the yield curve inversion matters, you're trading blind.

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