About RoboMacro
A macro desk that does more.
Chris Apostolou
Nine years as an economist and a credit analyst, buy-side and sell-side. I started Arbitrage Search in 2011. RoboMacro was a hobby that is now evolving into a capable strategist in its own right.
Why I built it
Macro research still depends on people reading speeches, refreshing charts, and writing research. I did that work for about nine years, as an economist and a credit analyst, on the buy-side and the sell-side.
In 2011 I started Arbitrage Search. Since then the team has worked with many of the world’s biggest hedge funds and banks. I still talk with people in macro strategy and economics every day.
In 2020 I went back to programming, learned Python and machine learning with no interest in applying it to finance. However, in 2023 I started turning research papers into podcasts for fun. And that hobby grew into RoboMacro which is now a fully fledged research team. It updates continuously, and it was the first research offering to run without a human in the loop.
What you can open
This site is about a fifth of what I’m building. The rest stays quiet until it’s ready.
Daily notes
Country and asset notes, every business day.
Hawk / Dove
G10 speeches, scored, so you can see who shifted.
Payrolls Lab
Ten models against the BLS first print.
Global macro
Thirty economies, coupled, from today’s data.
Fixed income
G7 duration, the curve, and how crowded the trade is.
FX
G10 spot, vol, positioning, and a macro scorecard.
Taylor Rule
The 1993 rule, run for the G10.
Calendar
What’s released, across the countries I cover.
What’s different
Nobody signs the note
I used to read the speeches, refresh the charts, and write the morning note. RoboMacro does that without an analyst checking each piece before it goes out.
It lives in one place
The calendar, the country notes, inflation, labour, oil, FX, VIX, and the models sit on the same site, across more than twenty countries. I got tired of that work being split across tools.
You can run the models
The G7 HANK models and the 30-country simulator are pages you can shock, not an appendix in a PDF. On the standard monetary shocks, the UK model matches the Bank of England’s MTP-7 within 97–100 percent.
A robot can read it
robomacro.ai is the same research in plain text, a day later. There is also JSON, a Saturday dump for research, and a public skill file. I would rather hand a model a clean copy than have it scrape the site.
I hired the people who do this job
Since 2011, Arbitrage Search has placed more than 300 economists, macro portfolio managers, FX and rates strategists, and quants in more than twenty countries. I still talk to them. That is how I tell the repetitive work from the judgment.
Who it’s for, and how you use it
Economists who want the country note before a human desk has filed it. Strategists who don’t want to keep their own pipeline for scoring speeches. Portfolio managers who want one pass across bonds, currencies, inflation, and labour. Quants who would rather have an API than another PDF. And agents that need a stable text source.
You open the site. Notes land every business day. The scores and the calendar move when speeches and releases do. Payrolls Lab moves with the BLS employment report. If you are a model, read robomacro.ai — the same research, a day later. If you want to talk about a partnership, write to me. There isn’t an account team, and there isn’t an analyst of record on each note.
The short version
| What it is | Macro research that publishes itself. Daily notes, central-bank scores, calendars, and models. No analyst team in the loop. |
|---|---|
| Who | Chris Apostolou. Nine years as an economist and credit analyst. Arbitrage Search since 2011. |
| When | I went back to programming in 2020. The domain was registered on 4 July 2022. |
| Read it | robomacro.com is free. robomacro.ai is the text copy for agents, a day later, free for now, and it may become paid. |
| Office | I don’t publish a registered address here. |
| Clients | I don’t publish a client list. Arbitrage Search has worked with many of the largest hedge funds and banks. |
| Next to | We overlay; we do not replace. Public comparisons sit at /compare: Investing.com’s calendar, FRED labour, Hawkometer-style hawk/dove, Oxford-style retainers. |
| Write to | [email protected] |
Write to me
A closer look, a partnership, or anything else.
[email protected]Questions
What is RoboMacro?
RoboMacro is an AI-powered macroeconomic research platform. It publishes daily research notes, scores central-bank speeches, runs economic models, and maintains calendars and equity screeners across 20+ countries, including the US, UK, Eurozone, Japan, and China. The output is automated. There is no analyst team in the loop.
Who created RoboMacro?
Chris Apostolou. He spent nine years as an economist and credit analyst on the buy-side and the sell-side, founded Arbitrage Search in 2011, and built RoboMacro himself.
Is RoboMacro free?
The research on robomacro.com is free to read, including the daily notes, the payrolls dashboard, the economic calendar, and central-bank monitoring. Agents can use a free text version at robomacro.ai, published on a one-day delay. That agent feed may become a paid service.
What is robomacro.ai?
A free text version of the research for robots and other agents, published one day after the human site. It may become a paid service for agents.
Is this website the whole product?
robomacro.com is the public face. It shows about a fifth of the suite in development. The rest stays in stealth until it is ready.
What countries and regions does RoboMacro cover?
US, UK, Eurozone, Japan, Greater China, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, South Korea, India, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, South Africa, and more — over 20 countries.
What data sources does RoboMacro use?
FRED, OECD, World Bank, BLS, and other official statistical agencies. Charts update daily or monthly depending on the release schedule.
How often is RoboMacro content updated?
Daily research notes every business day. Hawk/dove scores and the economic calendar update as data arrives. The payrolls dashboard updates with the BLS Employment Situation.
Is this investment advice?
No. Content is informational only and is not a recommendation, a personal recommendation, or an offer to buy or sell any security.
How do I get in touch?
Write to [email protected] for a closer look at the platform, a partnership, or anything else.
