This is the first of a number of regular market reviews I plan to include in the Money Makers service, delivered in video format. The first one was recorded on January 24th 2021. Being the first in the series, I have used it to explain how I use charts to track the current state of the markets, looking in this case at the simple building blocks of any investment portfolio - inflation, bond yields and stock market indices.

I am not a great believer in technical analysis - the idea that specific chart patterns can tell you exactly what to buy and sell and when to do so - but I do know that they...