Bonds Think First and Markets Follow.

The two forces quietly steering liquidity, risk appetite, and global capital flows.

Everything in markets is connected. Not in theory—in function.

Think of the market like a human body. Your brain is at the center—processing data, storing memories, sending signals. But none of that matters unless the message reaches your limbs. That’s what nerves are for.

They carry the signal and they make the body move.

Without that connection, you become rigid—movement slows—response time lags. Eventually, the whole system breaks down.

Markets work the same way and the bond market is the brain.

It holds the signal. It processes information about liquidity, risk, and expectations. The shape of the yield curve can tell you whether credit is expanding or contracting. Whether investors are optimistic or defensive. Whether the economy is warming up—or starting to overheat.

The bond market doesn’t just exist alongside stocks and commodities. It speaks to them. It sets the tone. It sends the signal.

If there’s enough liquidity, risk assets rally. Stocks rise and credit flows.

That’s a healthy system.

Too much liquidity?

That’s when things move too fast and commodities spike.

Stocks fly. Everything runs—until it doesn’t. The overheating phase feels good, right up until the body collapses from exhaustion. That’s when corrections show up. Sometimes, it’s a full-blown bear market.

But there’s another part of this market brain: the dollar.

If bonds are the left hemisphere, the dollar is the right. It connects to the same systems but sends different signals. A weaker dollar loosens global conditions. It pushes capital into commodities, gold, and international equities. It shifts the flow—just like a neural signal rerouted down a different path.

The bond market and the dollar are not separate conversations. They are two sides of the same brain. They move the body of global markets in tandem.

And if you want to understand where the world is going, you start by listening to the signals they’re sending.

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When the Dollar Breaks, the Flow Begins (Where are we?)

Over the last couple years, those signals have been clear. The yield curve bottomed shortly after stocks bottomed in 2022, the dollar peaked at the same time and liquidity started to loosen. That was the market’s way of telling us that risk was shifting—not all at once, but enough to matter.

We listened.

That’s why we positioned early in gold, silver, gold miners, and international equities—assets that typically benefit when the dollar weakens and rates shift.

In a weak dollar regime:

• Capital flows out of the U.S. and into emerging and developed markets abroad

• Precious metals transition from hedge to leader

• Commodities gain momentum simply by being priced in a declining currency

This isn’t a story we told ourselves—It’s a process we followed. We didn’t chase technology and we did not make wild predictions.

We paid attention to what the bond market and the dollar were already saying.

That’s how we stayed ahead of the flow instead of reacting to it.

So far this year, we’re up over 30%. Not by taking outsized risks—but by getting the big picture right.

Gold is working. Miners are breaking out. International stocks are outperforming.

Not because they made headlines, but because they followed the money.

And that’s the point: if you want to understand where markets are headed, watch where the capital is already going.

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📊 Here’s What’s Working

We don’t just talk about signals—we follow them. And that’s showing up in the portfolio:

• GDXJ: +48.13%

• GDX: +47.43%

• GLD: +28.91%

• ECH (Chile): +27.34%

• EPOL (Poland): +43.02%

• Coffee Futures (KC1): +23.26%

• Gold Futures (GC1): +29.35%

• China (FXI), Colombia (GXG), and Italy (EWI) all leading global equity returns

This isn’t luck. It’s a process—built on bond and dollar signals, relative strength, and disciplined execution.

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