Real Rate Mortgage Framework [Gabremoku]Real Rate Mortgage Framework is a macro context indicator that estimates a simplified real-rate proxy by subtracting CPI YoY from a nominal government yield series. It is designed to help users assess borrowing conditions from a broader economic perspective, rather than to predict a specific mortgage quote or lender offer.
The script currently includes preset configurations for the United States and Italy, and it also supports custom sources so the framework can be extended to additional countries without changing the core logic. This modular structure makes the indicator suitable as a reusable framework for future country presets and custom macro implementations.
To make the output easier to read, the real-rate proxy is classified into four clearly labeled regimes: Excellent Rate, Good Rate, Acceptable Rate, and High Rate. These labels are paired with a color structure that makes the current macro environment immediately visible on the chart, in the label, and in the dashboard.
A moving average is applied to inflation to reduce the stair-step effect caused by monthly CPI updates and improve visual readability. The indicator also includes a summary dashboard, optional background regime shading, alerts, and a disclaimer so users can interpret the output as informational context rather than financial advice.
This script is intended for traders and investors who want a simple cross-country real-rate framework for macro analysis, mortgage context, and future expansion to additional national datasets. If you would like a new country or a different sovereign yield / inflation pair added, feel free to message me with your request so I can consider it for a future implementation. Indicator
NEWS [Ordinary Trader]# NEWS
NEWS by Ordinary Trader marks high-impact USD economic news events on your chart — CPI, NFP, FOMC, PCE, GDP, and the rest of the red-folder calendar — both past and upcoming.
Part of the Ordinary Trader family alongside **EMAs**, **FVGs**, **KEY LEVELS**, **ZONES**, and **STRATEGY (LITE / PRO)**. The methodology calls for standing aside during high-impact news; this indicator makes those events impossible to miss.
## Visuals
Each event produces a **full-height vertical column** at the exact event time, plus a **small triangle marker** in a thin pane below the chart. Hover the marker for event name, day, date, and time in your selected timezone.
~3 months of historical events stay visible. ~1 week of upcoming events floats in the projected area to the right of your latest candle.
## Tiers + Filters
Events auto-classify into 4 tiers, each with its own colour:
- **Tier 1** — CPI, NFP, FOMC Rate Decision, PCE, GDP
- **Tier 2** — FOMC Minutes, Retail Sales, ISM PMI, PPI
- **Tier 3** — ADP, Consumer Confidence, Michigan, JOLTS, Initial Jobless Claims, Durable Goods
- **Uncategorised** — everything else (default OFF)
Hybrid filtering: tier master toggles + per-event toggles.
## Alerts (optional)
Pre-event PulseWire alerts fire N minutes before each visible event (default 30). Same filters apply. One-time setup: enable in indicator settings + add a PulseWire alert with condition `Any alert() function call`.
## Timezone
10 options (ET / CT / PT / UTC / UK / CET / Tokyo / HK / Singapore / Sydney) for tooltips and alerts. DST automatic.
## Notes
- USD events only; non-USD on the roadmap.
- Built on the Forex Factory data feed maintained by **@toodegrees** via Pine Seeds. The visual layer, tier classification, filter UI, and alerts are original work.
- License: Mozilla Public License 2.0. Free to use. Indicator
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CPI Inflation Monitor (Change YoY & MoM)📊 CPI Inflation Monitor - Complete Macro Analysis Tool
This indicator provides a comprehensive view of Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation trends, essential for understanding monetary policy, market conditions, and making informed trading decisions.
🎯 KEY FEATURES:
- Dual Perspective Analysis:
- Year-over-Year (YoY): Histogram bars showing annual inflation rate
- Month-over-Month (MoM): Line overlay showing monthly price changes
- Visual Reference System:
- Dashed line at 2% (Fed's official inflation target for YoY)
- Dotted line at 0.17% (equivalent monthly target for MoM)
- Color-coded bars: Red above target, Green below target
- Real-Time Data Table:
- Current CPI Index value
- YoY inflation rate with color coding
- MoM inflation rate with color coding
- Deviation from Fed target
- Automated Alerts:
- YoY crosses above/below 2% target
- MoM crosses above/below 0.17% target
- Perfect for staying informed without constant monitoring
📈 WHY THIS MATTERS FOR TRADERS:
CPI is the most widely reported inflation metric and directly influences:
- Federal Reserve interest rate decisions
- Bond yields and currency valuations
- Stock market sentiment (especially growth vs. value rotation)
- Cryptocurrency and risk asset performance
Rising inflation (red bars) typically leads to:
→ Higher interest rates → Negative for growth stocks, crypto
→ Stronger USD → Pressure on commodities
Falling inflation (green bars) typically leads to:
→ Rate cut expectations → Positive for growth stocks, crypto
→ Weaker USD → Support for commodities
🔍 HOW TO USE:
1. Strategic Positioning: Use YoY trend (thick bars) for long-term asset allocation
2. Tactical Timing: Use MoM trend (thin line) to identify turning points early
3. Divergence Trading: When MoM falls but YoY remains high, anticipate trend reversal
4. Fed Policy Prediction: Distance from 2% target indicates Fed's likely hawkishness
💡 PRO TIPS:
- Multiple months of MoM above 0.3% = Accelerating inflation → Fed turns hawkish
- MoM turning negative while YoY still elevated = Peak inflation → Position for pivot
- Compare with PPI and PCE indicators for complete inflation picture
- Use alerts to catch important threshold crossings automatically
📊 DATA SOURCE:
Official CPI data from FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), updated monthly mid-month when new data releases occur.
🎨 CUSTOMIZATION:
Fully customizable through settings:
- Toggle YoY/MoM displays
- Adjust target levels
- Customize colors for visual preference
- Show/hide absolute CPI values
Perfect for: Macro traders, swing traders, long-term investors, and anyone wanting to understand the inflation environment affecting their portfolio.
Note: This indicator works on any chart timeframe as it loads external monthly economic data. Indicator
Economic Event DatesThis PulseWire indicator ("Economic Event Dates") plots significant economic event dates directly on your chart, helping you stay informed about potential market-moving announcements. It includes pre-configured dates for:
* **FOMC Meetings:** Key policy meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee.
* **CPI Releases:** Consumer Price Index data releases, a key measure of inflation.
* **Bitcoin Halvings:** Programmatic reductions in Bitcoin's new supply issuance.
**Features:**
* **Customizable Dates:** Easily input and manage dates for FOMC, CPI, and Halving events for current and future years (2025, 2026, and beyond for Halvings).
* **Visual Cues:** Displays vertical lines on the chart at the precise time of each event.
* **Event Labels:** Shows clear labels (e.g., "FOMC", "CPI", "Halving") for each event line.
* **Color Coding:** Distinct colors for FOMC (blue), CPI (orange), and Halving (purple) events for quick identification.
* **Future Events Focus:** Option to display only upcoming events relative to the current real time.
* **Morning Alerts:** (Optional) Triggers an alert on the morning of a scheduled event, providing a timely reminder.
* **Customizable Appearance:** Adjust line width and toggle label visibility.
**How to Use:**
1. Add the indicator to your PulseWire chart.
2. Review and update the input dates for FOMC, CPI, and Halving events in the indicator settings. The script includes placeholders and notes for future dates that may require verification from official sources (e.g., federalreserve.gov, bls.gov).
3. Customize colors, line width, label visibility, and alert preferences as needed.
4. Observe the vertical lines on your chart indicating upcoming economic events.
This tool is designed for traders and investors who want to incorporate awareness of major economic events into their market analysis. Remember to verify future event dates as they are officially announced.
Created by YouNesta Indicator
The Investment Clock Orbital GraphThe Investment Clock Orbital Graph is an advanced visualization tool designed to help traders and investors track economic cycles using a dynamic scatter plot of GDP growth vs. CPI inflation rates.
This indicator is a fusion of two powerful PulseWire indicators:
LuxAlgo ’s Relative Strength Scatter Plot – A robust scatter plot for tracking relative strength.
The Investment Clock Indicator – A cycle-based approach to market rotation. This indicator contains more information regarding The Investment Clock.
By combining these approaches, the Investment Clock Orbital Graph enables traders to visualize economic momentum and inflationary trends in a unique, orbital-style scatter plot.
Key Features & Improvements
Orbital Graph Representation – Displays GDP growth and CPI inflation as a dynamic, evolving scatter plot, showing how the economy moves through different phases.
Quadrant-Based Market Regimes – Identifies four key economic phases:
1)🔥 Overheating (High Growth, High Inflation)
2)📉 Stagflation (Low Growth, High Inflation)
3)🤒 Recovery (High Growth, Low Inflation)
4)🎈 Reflation (Low Growth, Low Inflation)
Data-Driven Analysis – Utilizes FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) for accurate real-world GDP & CPI data.
Trailing Path of Economic Evolution – Tracks historical economic cycles over time to show momentum and cyclical movements.
Customizable Parameters – Set sustainable GDP growth and inflation thresholds, adjust trail length, and fine-tune scatter plot resolution.
Auto-Labeled Quadrants & Revised Accurate Market Guidance – Each quadrant includes newly updated tooltips and annotations (like ETF suggestions) to help traders make informed decisions.
Live Macro Forecasting Tool – Helps traders anticipate future market conditions, rate hikes/cuts, and sector rotations.
How to Use for Trading Decisions
The Investment Clock Orbital Graph helps traders and macro investors by identifying market phases and providing insights into asset class performance during different economic conditions.
📌 Step 1: Identify the Current Quadrant
Locate the most recent point on the orbital graph to see if the economy is in Overheating, Stagflation, Recovery, or Reflation.
📌 Step 2: Forecast Market Trends
The trajectory of the points can predict upcoming economic shifts:
Overheating → Stagflation ➡️ Expect economic slowdowns, bearish stock markets.
Stagflation → Reflation ➡️ Interest rate cuts likely, bonds and defensive stocks perform well.
Reflation → Recovery ➡️ Risk-on rally, technology and cyclicals perform best.
Recovery → Overheating ➡️ Commodities surge, inflation rises, and central banks intervene.
📌 Step 3: Align Trading & Investing Strategies
🔥 Overheating – Favor commodities & energy (Oil, Industrial Stocks, Materials).
📉 Stagflation – Favor defensive assets (Cash, Utilities, Healthcare).
🤒 Recovery – Favor growth stocks (Technology, Consumer Discretionary).
🎈 Reflation – Favor bonds, value stocks, and financials.
📌 Step 4: Monitor Trends Over Time
The indicator visualizes economic movement over multiple months, allowing traders to confirm long-term trends vs. short-term noise.
The Investment Clock Orbital Graph is an essential macro trading tool, providing a real-time visualization of economic conditions. By tracking GDP growth vs. CPI inflation, traders and investors can align their portfolios with major macroeconomic shifts, predict sector rotations, and anticipate central bank policy changes. Indicator
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[Comparative CPI SGM]Code Explanation
User Inputs:
len: Defines the period over which CPI changes are calculated, with selectable options of 12, 6, and 3 months.
CP1 and CP2: These are the economic zones whose CPI data are being compared. The options include CPI from various regions like the EU, USA, UK, etc.
Calculating and Comparing Changes:
Calculates the annual change for each CPI and then computes the difference between these two changes.
Trading Utility
In trading, CPI variations are key indicators of inflation within different economic regions. Monetary policy decisions by central banks, heavily influenced by these data, significantly impact financial markets, especially in forex and bond markets.
Monetary Policy Forecasting:
If inflation in one region is significantly higher than in another, the central bank might raise interest rates, potentially strengthening that region's currency.
Currency Trading Strategy:
Traders might use this indicator to speculate on currency pair movements. For example, if US CPI is rising faster than the EU CPI, this might suggest a potential appreciation of the USD against the EUR.
Macroeconomic Analysis:
Understanding where inflation pressures are strongest can guide longer-term investment decisions, such as choosing between emerging and developed markets. Indicator
Temporal Value Tracker: Inception-to-Present Inflation Lens!What we're looking at here is a chart that does more than just display the price of gold. It offers us a time-traveling perspective on value. The blue line, that's our nominal price—it's the straightforward market price of gold over time. But it's the red line that takes us on a deeper journey. This line adjusts the nominal price for inflation, showing us the real purchasing power of gold.
Now, when we talk about 'real value,' we're not just philosophizing. We're anchoring our prices to a point in time when the journey began—let's say when gold trading started on the markets, or any inception point we choose. By 'shadowing' certain years—say, from the 1970s when the gold standard was abandoned—we can adjust this chart to reflect what the inflation-adjusted price means since that key moment in history.
By doing so, we're effectively isolating our view to start from that pivotal year, giving us insight into how gold, or indeed any asset, has held up against the backdrop of economic changes, policy shifts, and the inevitable rise in the cost of living. If you're analyzing a stock index like the S&P 500, you might begin your inflation-adjusted view from the index's inception date, which allows you to measure the true growth of the market basket from the moment it started.
This adjustment isn't just academic. It influences how we perceive value and growth. Consider a period where the nominal price skyrockets. We might toast to our brilliance in investment! But if the inflation-adjusted line lags, what we're seeing is nominal growth without real gains. On the other hand, if our red line outpaces the blue even during stagnant market periods, we're witnessing real growth—our asset is outperforming the eroding effects of inflation.
Every asset class can be evaluated this way. Stocks, bonds, real estate—they all have their historical narratives, and inflation adjustment tells us if these stories are tales of genuine growth or illusions masked by inflation.
So, as informed traders and investors, we need to keep our eyes on this inflation-adjusted line. It's our measure against the silent thief that is inflation. It ensures we're not just keeping up with the Joneses of the market, but actually outpacing them, building real wealth over time Indicator
1995-Present - Inflation and Purchasing PowerGood day, everyone! Today, we're going to look at a chart that's a bit different from the usual price charts we analyse. This isn't just any chart; it's a lens into the past, adjusted for the reality of inflation—a concept we often hear about but seldom see directly applied to our trading charts.
What we have here is an 'Inflation Adjusted Price' indicator on PulseWire, and it's doing something quite special. It's showing us the price of our asset, let's say the S&P 500, not just in today's dollars, but in the dollars of 1995. Why 1995, you ask? Well, it's the starting point we've chosen to measure how much actual buying power has changed since then.
So, every point on this red line we see represents what the S&P 500's value would be if we stripped away the effects of inflation. This is the price in terms of what your money could actually buy you back in 1995.
As traders and investors, we're always looking at prices going up and thinking, 'Great! My investment is growing!' But the real question we should ask is, 'Is my money growing in real terms? Can it buy me more than it did last year, or five, ten, or twenty-five years ago?'
This chart tells us exactly that. If the red line is above the actual price, it means that the S&P 500 has not just grown in nominal terms, but it has actually outpaced inflation. Your investment has grown in real terms; it can buy you more now than it could back in 1995.
On the flip side, if the red line is below the actual price, that's a sign that while the nominal price might be up, the real value, the purchasing power, hasn't grown as much or could even have fallen.
This view is crucial, especially for the long-term investors among us. It gives us a reality check on our investments and savings. Are we truly growing our wealth, or are we just keeping up with the cost of living? This indicator answers that.
Remember, the true measure of financial growth is not just the numbers on a chart. It's what you can do with those numbers—how much bread, or eggs, or yes, even houses, you can buy with your hard-earned money Indicator
BTC Purchasing Power 2009-20XX! Hello, today I'm going to show you something that shifts our perspective on Bitcoin's value, not just in nominal terms, but adjusted for the real buying power over the years. This Pine Script TAS developed for PulseWire does exactly that by taking into account inflation rates from 2009 to the present.
As you know, inflation erodes the purchasing power of money. That $100 in 2009 does not buy you the same amount in goods or services today. The same concept applies to Bitcoin. While we often look at its price in terms of dollars, pounds, or euros, it's crucial to understand what that price really means in terms of purchasing power.
What this script does is adjust the price of Bitcoin for cumulative inflation since 2009, allowing us to see not just how the nominal price has changed, but how its value as a means of purchasing goods and services has evolved.
For example, if we see Bitcoin's price at $60,000 today, that number might seem high compared to its early years. However, when we adjust this price for inflation, we might find that in terms of 2009's purchasing power, the effective price might be somewhat lower. This adjusted price gives us a more accurate reflection of Bitcoin's true value over time.
This script plots two lines on the chart:
The Original BTC Price: This is the unadjusted price of Bitcoin as we typically see it.
BTC Purchasing Power: This line shows Bitcoin's price adjusted for inflation, reflecting how many goods or services Bitcoin could buy at that point in time compared to 2009.
By comparing these lines, we can observe periods where Bitcoin's purchasing power significantly increased, even if the nominal price was not at its peak. This can help us identify moments when Bitcoin was undervalued or overvalued in real terms.
This analysis is crucial for long-term investors and traders who want to understand Bitcoin's value beyond the surface-level price movements. It helps us appreciate Bitcoin's potential as a store of value, especially in contexts where traditional currencies are losing purchasing power due to inflation.
Remember, investing is not just about riding price waves; it's about understanding the underlying value. And that's precisely what this script helps us to uncover Indicator
Inflation IndicatorThis script provides a great view of Year-over-Year (YoY) inflation rates for key countries.
The inflation data used per default are PulseWire Tickers, but you can change them to anything you want from the settings.
There is no calculation in this script, all it does is providing a overview of inflation rates in a single indicator.
Inflation data for the USA, European Union, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Japan, United Kingdom, and New Zealand (Inflation Symbols editable in the settings)
Customizable static line to indicate a specific threshold value (default: 2.0).
Table displaying country flags, names, and the latest inflation rates.
Country-representative colors for easy identification.
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Odd_mod Econ CalendarA modification of Economic Calendar Events: FOMC, CPI, and more written by jdehorty . Please send all tips his way as he is maintaining the underlying data for the Calendar and the original concept.
List of changes:
Optimized code, will only run once on initialization now(No random line in middle of screen on bar change)
Legend - Added short names
Legend - Removed header
Legend - Made repositionable with selectable top margins
Legend - Removed data name from legend when it is disabled
Legend - Removed border
Original Description by jdehorty :
This script plots major events from the Economic Calendar that often correspond to major pivot points in various markets. It also includes built-in logic to retroactively adjust larger time intervals (i.e. greater than 1 hour) to be correctly aligned with the interval during which the event occurred.
Events are taken from the Economic Calendar and will be updated periodically at the following library:
EconomicCalendar
The above library can be used to conveniently access date-related data for major Meetings, Releases, and Announcements as integer arrays, which can be used in other indicators. Currently, it has support for the following events:
FOMC Meetings
The FOMC meets eight times a year to determine the course of monetary policy . The FOMC's decisions are based on a review of economic and financial developments and its assessment of the likely effects of these developments on the economic outlook.
FOMC Minutes
The FOMC minutes are released three weeks after each FOMC meeting. The minutes provide a detailed account of the FOMC's discussion of economic and financial developments and its assessment of the likely effects of these developments on the economic outlook.
Producer Price Index (PPI) Releases
The Producer Price Index (PPI) measures changes in the price level of goods and services sold by domestic producers. The PPI is a weighted average of prices of a basket of goods and services, such as transportation, food, and medical care. PPI is a leading indicator of CPI .
Consumer Price Index ( CPI ) Releases
The Consumer Price Index ( CPI ) measures changes in the price level of goods and services purchased by households. The CPI is a weighted average of prices of a basket of consumer goods and services, such as transportation, food, and medical care. CPI is one of the most widely used measures of inflation .
Consumer Sentiment Index ( CSI ) Releases
The University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Index ( CSI ) is a measure of consumer attitudes about the economy. The CSI is based on a monthly survey of U.S. households and reflects the consumers' assessment of present and future economic conditions. The CSI is a leading indicator of consumer spending, which accounts for about two-thirds of U.S. economic activity.
Consumer Confidence Index ( CCI ) Releases
The Consumer Confidence Index is a survey that measures how optimistic or pessimistic consumers are regarding their expected financial situation.
Non-Farm Payroll (NFP) Releases
The Non-Farm Payroll (NFP) is a measure of the change in the number of employed persons, excluding farm workers and government employees. The NFP is a leading indicator of consumer spending, which accounts for about two-thirds of U.S. economic activity. Indicator
Economic Calendar (Import from Spreadsheet)This script draws vertical lines to mark Economic Calendar Events.
Datetime of events is defined by user in Settings via a standardized line of text.
Motivation for coding this script:
All traders should be aware of economic calendar events. At times, when you really need to pay attention to an upcoming major event, you might even decide to use the vertical-line drawing tool to mark it. However, this takes manual effort.
This script provides a solution to performing mundane tasks such as drawing vertical lines and dragging them ever so slightly, just to have them approximately aligned with exact time.
Parameters:
(1) Source data - String representation of collection of datetime referencing to Economic Calendar Events
(2) Line color, & (3) Width of line - For displaying vertical lines drawn by script.
Standardized format for Source Data :
Example:
If 'GMT;2022,6,1,14,0,0;2022,6,2,12,15,0;' is provided to PineScript, then two vertical lines will be drawn on June 6, 2022 according to the exact time in 'YYYY,MM,DD,hh,mm,ss' format at the specified timezone (GMT in this case).
Template for Source Data :
Included here, link below, is a shared Google Sheet that systematically processes Economic Calendar data provided in the 'Raw Data' tab.
drive.google.com
Users are advised to use their preferred methods* to format the string (for source data param.), and apply their own criteria to sort down the Events. (ie. only include Events of High Impact, etc.)
* Preferred methods (as mentioned above) does not mean being limited to using the template as provided in this post. Indicator
Economic Calendar Events: FOMC, CPI, and moreThis script plots major events from the Economic Calendar that often correspond to major pivot points in various markets. It also includes built-in logic to retroactively adjust larger time intervals (i.e. greater than 1 hour) to be correctly aligned with the interval during which the event occurred.
Events are taken from the Economic Calendar and will be updated periodically at the following library:
The above library can be used to conveniently access date-related data for major Meetings, Releases, and Announcements as integer arrays, which can be used in other indicators. Currently, it has support for the following events:
FOMC Meetings
The FOMC meets eight times a year to determine the course of monetary policy. The FOMC's decisions are based on a review of economic and financial developments and its assessment of the likely effects of these developments on the economic outlook.
FOMC Minutes
The FOMC minutes are released three weeks after each FOMC meeting. The minutes provide a detailed account of the FOMC's discussion of economic and financial developments and its assessment of the likely effects of these developments on the economic outlook.
Producer Price Index (PPI) Releases
The Producer Price Index (PPI) measures changes in the price level of goods and services sold by domestic producers. The PPI is a weighted average of prices of a basket of goods and services, such as transportation, food, and medical care. PPI is a leading indicator of CPI.
Consumer Price Index (CPI) Releases
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures changes in the price level of goods and services purchased by households. The CPI is a weighted average of prices of a basket of consumer goods and services, such as transportation, food, and medical care. CPI is one of the most widely used measures of inflation.
Consumer Sentiment Index (CSI) Releases
The University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Index (CSI) is a measure of consumer attitudes about the economy. The CSI is based on a monthly survey of U.S. households and reflects the consumers' assessment of present and future economic conditions. The CSI is a leading indicator of consumer spending, which accounts for about two-thirds of U.S. economic activity.
Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) Releases
The Consumer Confidence Index is a survey that measures how optimistic or pessimistic consumers are regarding their expected financial situation.
Non-Farm Payroll (NFP) Releases
The Non-Farm Payroll (NFP) is a measure of the change in the number of employed persons, excluding farm workers and government employees. The NFP is a leading indicator of consumer spending, which accounts for about two-thirds of U.S. economic activity. Indicator
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Annualizer: New Indicator + CPI AnalysisThis indicator calculates the annualized month-over-month percent change of a cumulative index and plots it alongside the year-over-year percent change for comparison. It was developed for the purpose of analyzing the inflation rate of CPI indexes such as “CPIAUCSL.” It can also be used on M2 money supply and pretty much any cumulative index. It will not produce useful outputs on percent change indexes such as “USCCPI” because it performs percent change calculations which are already applied to those indexes.
This indicator takes data from the monthly chart, regardless of how often the data is reported or what the timeframe of the current chart is. Doing so allows it to work on all timeframes while displaying only monthly data outputs but limits it from recognizing data which might be released more often than once per month. This limitation should be suitable for macroeconomic data such as CPI and M2 money supply which are usually analyzed on a month-to-month basis.
If the ticker symbol is "M2SL" which is M2 money supply, annualized percent change is plotted in green, otherwise, it’s plotted in blue.
CPI analysis:
Upon deploying this indicator, it was observed that the year-over-year (YoY) inflation rate (red) is a lagging indicator of the annualized month-over-month (MoM) inflation rate (blue) and that it appears to almost be a moving average of it. A moving average plot was temporarily added for comparison to the YoY and it was found that the difference between the two plots is negligible and that for the purposes of high-level analysis of inflation, the two plots can be considered to be no different from one another. Below is a screenshot for demonstration. Notice how closely the white 12-month SMA of the annualized rate tracks the YoY rate.
For other indexes which may see more dramatic changes month-over-month such as M2 money supply, the difference between the two signals becomes more pronounced but they are still comparable. The conclusion is that the YoY inflation rate can be considered to be a 12-month simple moving average of the annualized MoM rate.
12-month SMA:
It’s easy to see and stands to reason that if the annualized MoM inflation rate (blue) remains where it has been for the previous 2 months YoY inflation (red) will begin falling and eventually reach similar levels due to its moving-average-like behavior. This will bring us back to the 2% YoY inflation target of the Fed within no more than 10 months. There may be a perception that deflation is required to bring prices back down to the purple channel of CPI to make prices pre-Covid "normal" again. We were headed in that direction in July with a slightly negative MoM CPI read. What may have freaked investors out about the August report (most recent as of this writing) is that the inflation rate, rather than continuing into negative deflationary territory, has bounced back into positive territory.
M2 money supply isn’t an integral part of this analysis, but it helps demonstrate the indicator. It can be observed that CPI growth lags M2 money supply growth which seems to have leveled off.
I’m not a macroeconomist so I’m probably missing some things, but I do not see a lagging indicator such as YoY inflation being at 8.25% while annualized MoM inflation is at 1.42% as something to freak out about as investors have seemingly done. I’m a stock market bear as of last week, but I do not feel this CPI analysis strongly supports a bearish thesis, nor is it bullish. Next month’s annualized MoM % change may begin to sway me one way or the other depending on what this chart looks like when it’s updated. Indicator
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