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The week's score
Where the signal landed Saturday, and what changed.
What's on deck
The macro catalysts coming up — CPI, FOMC, the prints worth watching.
This week's chapter
One concept explained in plain English — building a real foundation over time.
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Every week's score, movers, and chapter — searchable and indexed.
The Weekly Manual
34 plain-English chapters, released one Saturday at a time. By month 8 you'll have walked the entire path — from how money works to the macro and crypto signals inside the score.
PROLOGUEStart Here1 chapter›
1. Why DCA beats timing the market — buying a fixed amount on a set schedule removes emotion and captures more coins per dollar when prices fall. The strategy the daily signal is built to support.
PHASE 1Why Bitcoin Exists7 chapters›
2. What is Bitcoin, actually? — decentralized digital currency, Satoshi 2009, hedge vs money printing
3. A brief history of money — barter → coins → paper backed by gold → paper backed by nothing
4. What is fiat currency? — money valuable because the government says so, and where it gets fragile
5. The 1971 Nixon Shock — when the US dollar went off the gold standard, and what changed forever
6. What the Federal Reserve actually does — central bank, rates, money supply, why Bitcoin traders watch Fed meetings
7. How fiat inflation actually happens — money printing, M2 expansion, why the dollar buys ~96% less than in 1913
8. The 2008 financial crisis, plain English — what broke, bailouts, why Satoshi launched Bitcoin three months later
PHASE 2The Macro Signals8 chapters›
9. The economic calendar: why the signal waits for catalysts — the scheduled releases (inflation, the Fed, jobs) that can move markets in minutes, and why buying blind into one is a coin flip. The reason behind the WAIT FOR state.
10. What is the VIX? — Wall Street's fear gauge. Sub-15 calm, 20+ nervous, 30+ panic
11. OAS / credit spreads — the extra interest risky companies pay to borrow. Low = calm; a spike = Wall Street smells trouble. The signal's lead macro indicator.
12. What is M2 money supply? — total dollars in the economy, and why it leads asset price moves
13. The US Dollar Index (DXY) — measures the dollar's strength; a weak dollar is historically a crypto tailwind, a strong one a headwind.
14. Why oil prices move crypto — Brent crude as a growth/inflation signal; spikes raise rate pressure, crashes ease it.
15. The Sahm Rule — a recession early-warning built from unemployment momentum; it flips before the headlines do.
16. The yield curve — when short rates top long rates, recessions historically follow in 6–18 months.
PHASE 3Scarcity & Supply3 chapters›
17. Bitcoin vs gold — five differences that matter (supply, portability, divisibility, verifiability, settlement speed)
18. The 21 million supply cap — what happens after the last bitcoin is mined (~2140), hard vs soft scarcity
19. The halving — Bitcoin's supply cut in half every ~4 years, why miners care, why traders watch
PHASE 4How It Works Under The Hood6 chapters›
20. Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? — the anonymous founder, why anonymity was the point, why 1.1M dormant BTC matter
21. What is blockchain? — a public ledger anyone reads but no one secretly edits
22. Decentralization — what "no one controls it" really means and why it matters
23. What is Bitcoin mining? — how new BTC is created, why it uses so much electricity, "proof of work" explained
24. How a Bitcoin transaction actually settles — vs credit card (3 days), wire (1-3 days), ACH (1-5 days). Bitcoin: 10–60 minutes
25. Self-custody — "not your keys, not your coins." Hardware wallets, seed phrases, the exchange tradeoff
PHASE 5The Broader Crypto Landscape3 chapters›
26. Altcoins and the meme coin trap — why "crypto" ≠ "Bitcoin," and why most tokens are speculation, not money
27. Stablecoins — Tether, USDC, and the dollar on a blockchain. What backs them (or doesn't)
28. Spot Bitcoin ETFs (Jan 2024) — what an ETF is, why the SEC fought them for a decade, why approval was a watershed
PHASE 6The Crypto Signals5 chapters›
29. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index — daily 0-100 sentiment, and why "be greedy when others are fearful" backtests well in Bitcoin
30. The 200-day average — Bitcoin's most-watched trend line; why trading well below it flags weakness and reclaiming it matters.
31. What is the MVRV ratio? — market value vs what holders actually paid. How it gauges cycle tops and bottoms
32. What is "on-chain" data? — every Bitcoin transaction is public. Active addresses, exchange outflows, long-term holder supply
33. Bitcoin dominance & altseason — Bitcoin's share of total crypto value; high = flight to safety, falling = risk rotating into alts.
CAPSTONEPutting It to Work1 chapter›
34. How the daily signal puts it all together — the macro and crypto reads you've learned fold into one −100 to +100 score and six plain-English states, and each state tells you exactly how to act. Where the whole series lands.
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