About MarketPhase

Market Timing Intelligence,
Built for Everyone

Institutional-grade signals and economic indicators — made free and accessible for individual investors.

What Is MarketPhase?

MarketPhase is a free financial research platform that tracks market cycles, economic conditions, and leading indicators to help individual investors understand where we are in the market at any given time.

We believe that the tools used by professional investors to navigate bull markets, bear markets, and everything in between should not be locked behind expensive subscriptions or institutional access. Our goal is to bring clarity to the noise — and help you avoid the most common and costly mistake in investing: being in the wrong position at the wrong phase of the market.

"Most investors lose money not because they pick bad stocks, but because they ignore the macro environment. MarketPhase exists to make that blind spot visible."

What We Track

Our live signals dashboard synthesizes data from multiple independent sources into a single, rules-based market phase assessment. Each signal is updated automatically using publicly available economic and market data:

📊 Market Breadth

RSP/SPY ratio and 200-day SMA analysis to detect whether the broad market is confirming or diverging from index moves.

😨 VIX Structure

Spot VIX versus its 200-day average reveals whether fear is elevated or compressed — a key input to risk appetite.

🏭 Semiconductor Leadership

The SOXX/QQQ ratio tracks whether cyclical growth leaders are outperforming, a classic early-cycle signal.

📉 CFNAI Macro Score

The Chicago Fed National Activity Index is one of the broadest composite measures of US economic activity.

📰 Daily Market Digest

Each trading morning, a fresh summary of what's moving markets — sourced from major financial news outlets and synthesized with AI.

📚 Research Guides

In-depth articles explaining the indicators we track, how to interpret them, and how they fit into a broader investing framework.

Who Is Behind MarketPhase?

👤

James Whitfield, CFA

Founder & Lead Analyst · Chartered Financial Analyst

James spent 12 years as an equity research analyst in institutional asset management, covering technology, financial services, and macro strategy for funds managing over $4 billion in assets. He holds the CFA charter and has a background in quantitative analysis and economic cycle research. After years of watching individual investors make preventable macro mistakes — being fully invested at market peaks, panic-selling at bottoms — he built MarketPhase to share the frameworks that institutional investors use every day. He writes all research guides and maintains the market timing model.

MarketPhase is an independent financial education platform. We are not a financial institution, registered investment advisor, or broker-dealer. The platform is funded through advertising, which allows us to keep all content and tools free of charge.

Our data is sourced from publicly available providers including the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) database, Yahoo Finance, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and major financial news outlets. We do not have any commercial relationships with the companies or securities we discuss.

Why Free?

We believe access to quality financial data and clear market analysis should not require a Bloomberg terminal. By keeping MarketPhase ad-supported and free, we can build something genuinely useful for the millions of individual investors who are underserved by the financial industry's high-cost, jargon-heavy tools.

Important Disclaimer: MarketPhase is for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing on this website constitutes financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. The signals and indicators displayed are based on publicly available data and historical patterns — they do not predict future results. Always consult a qualified financial advisor before making any investment decisions. Past signal performance does not guarantee future outcomes.

Get In Touch

We welcome feedback, corrections, and questions. If you have a suggestion for a new indicator, found a data issue, or just want to say hello, reach out to us at [email protected]. We read every message.