A PRIVATE COMMUNITY

Where serious traders sharpen their edge.

Strategic peer groups, the proprietary models we use to run real capital, and a vetted network of traders worth knowing. By application only.

Who belongs
Traders, allocators, and analysts devoted to their craft
The resources
Live models, curated research, peer groups, and interactive sessions
Access
By application; membership is deliberately limited

Our Story

Our edge wasn't only in the data. It was in the room.

For more than a decade, we learned in public, running an actively managed macro portfolio with real entries, real exits, and real sizing. The early years were fine. Not great. The kind of results that don't make headlines and don't let you quit either.

So we kept going. We kept learning, kept refining, kept getting things wrong in new and more instructive ways. Somewhere along the line it began to click: the market doesn't just test your thesis. It tests you. We stopped chasing the next big call and built something we could repeat: a process.

The last few years tell a different story. Performance became consistent. Consistent enough that hedge funds and family offices started to reach out. Today, we run real capital backed by sophisticated institutional investors.

Foundation Macro grew out of that.

We built our careers on research, analysis, and evidence. But the lessons that mattered most never came from a spreadsheet. They came from the room: members who poked holes in our ideas, offered the perspective we'd missed, and sat with us through brutal drawdowns when nothing else helped. That's where conviction gets tested and blind spots surface. That community was the best part of our last venture, Macro Ops. At Foundation Macro, it is the whole point.

We are not here to be one more voice selling research. You've read that copy. So have we. What we built—and what we're building now—is something rarer: a room where traders think together, challenge each other, and compound not just capital, but judgment.

If you take the craft seriously, there's a seat at the table.

Our goal is singular: the best macro trading community anywhere.

Community

A private circle of equals.

A private, deliberately small community where the conversation is the point. We lead by example, providing transparency into our process, live access to our models, and a standing seat at our quarterly briefings, alongside peers who bring sincerity, integrity, and intellectual honesty to how they trade.

PEER GROUP
Strategic peer group

Small, curated circles of traders who pressure-test each other's ideas and sharpen each other's process.

The Forum
A private forum

An always-on room for trade ideas, debate, and the intellectual honesty that is hard to find anywhere else.

Live Models
Positioning & models

Full transparency into where we stand, with live readings from the Trifecta Lens, TCTM, and Dual Trend System.

Live Sessions
Boardroom briefings

Quarterly virtual briefings, boardroom style, plus live sessions with the team through the year.

THE PUBLICATIONS

The research, written by the partners who trade it.

Four specializations, shared in full with members: weekly notes, monthly deep-dives, and quarterly outlooks. The call matters; the discipline to trade it matters just as much.

Macro
Alex Barrow

The global regime, the prevailing narrative, and where consensus is overextended—read through the Trifecta Lens. Yields, currencies, liquidity, and positioning.

Weekly
Value & Thematics
Brandon Beylo

A monthly deep-dive into mispriced businesses and the secular themes the market has not yet been forced to look at.

Monthly
Equities & Technicals
Dean Christians

Market turning points and sector leadership, mapped by the TCTM and Dual Trend System beneath the headline index.

Weekly
Charting & Mindset
Mike Gyulai

The tape read in the classical tradition, paired with the trader's own discipline: trade frequency, process, and the journal.

Monthly

The Resources

The tools we trade. Now yours.

The community is built around real work. Members have access to the same models behind the institutional book. Macro runs through our Trifecta Lens; equities through our Tactical Composite Trend Model and Dual Trend System.

Explore our models

In Their Words

Why they stay.

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The peer group tore apart my Emerging Markets thesis before it cost me. That one conversation paid for the year.
— PM, GLOBAL MACRO FUND
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The macro is sharp. But the thing that changed my P&L was learning to catch my own mistakes before the market charged me for them.
— CIO, FAMILY OFFICE
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I'm the most junior person in the room, and I've learned more here in six months than in three years on a desk. You can't get this proximity anywhere else.
— ANALYST, MACRO HEDGE FUND

For the record

Dated calls, not adjectives.

We would rather show the work. A few moments where our models diverged from the headlines—and what followed.

Explore our track record

The Partners

Bios as evidence, not biography.

Alex Barrow
Alex Barrow
Founder & Managing Partner, Foundation Macro · CIO, Foundation Fund
Global Macro

"Markets are a discipline of self-mastery before they are a discipline of analysis."

Brandon Beylo
Brandon Beylo
Senior Partner & Lead Value Investor, Foundation Macro · PM, Foundation Fund
Value & Thematics

"I want a business the market has stopped looking at, and a reason it will have to look again."

Dean Christians
Dean Christians
Lead Equity Market Strategist, Foundation Macro
Equities & Technicals

"I trust the weight of the evidence over the strength of any single opinion."

Mike Gyulai
Mike Gyulai
COO, Lead Technical Analyst & Head of Trader Development, Foundation Macro
Charting & Mindset

"The chart is honest about price; the journal is honest about you."

Apply to Join

Membership is by application.

To protect the quality of the dialogue and the culture we have built, we keep membership deliberately small. If you care about the craft as much as the outcome, we want to talk.

Whether you run billions, sit in the CIO seat at a family office, or are an analyst just coming up the ranks, what matters is the sincerity you bring to the work. Tell us how you trade and what you are looking for; we read every application.

A high bar, a small room, and the right people in it.

Annual membership$7,500/ yearBilled via corporate invoice upon approval
Inclusions
  • Private community & peer group
  • Live models & positioning
  • Weekly & monthly research
  • Quarterly briefings