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Practice Drills: Building a Breakout Nations Style Country Scorecard

A drill course for macro investors who already know the Breakout Nations rules and now want to run them as a repeatable process. You will fix a country universe and a scoring date, translate each rule into an indicator with a threshold and a named source (IMF WEO, World Bank WDI, BIS, RBI, national statistics offices), pull and clean the data, convert indicators into scores and weight them honestly. Then you score the growth-engine rules (demographics, investment, manufacturing, politics, billionaires, the state) and the stress rules (inflation, currency, credit, current account, hype) across a panel of emerging markets, rank them on one sheet, back-test the scorecard on past breakouts and busts, and stress-test the ranking against alternative weights. The course closes with India: scoring it rule by rule, writing a watch list of the indicators most likely to move its score, translating country scores into an allocation through LRS, international feeder funds and Nifty proxies, and presenting and defending the finished scorecard.

Emerging MarketsCountry SelectionTop-Down InvestingMacro ScorecardsCredit CyclesIndia MacroGlobal Allocation

MODULES

6

DURATION

4 Hours

TRACK

Macro & Markets

What You'll Master

Fix a country universe, a scoring date and a data vintage so the scorecard can be rerun and audited

Convert each of the ten rules into an indicator with a threshold, a named source and a known failure mode

Pull, clean and align country data from the IMF, World Bank, BIS and national sources, including missing and revised figures

Turn raw indicators into comparable scores and weight them without building in your own bias

Score a panel of emerging markets on growth-engine and stress rules and rank them on a single sheet

Back-test the scorecard on past breakouts and busts and stress-test the ranking against alternative weights

Score India rule by rule, build a watch list of swing indicators, and turn country scores into an allocation through Indian routes

Access Level

LEARNER

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Everything included

Full Text Playbooks

Actionable Exercises

Mobile Reading Mode

Lifetime Updates

Curriculum Breakdown

Chapter 1: Setting Up the Country Scorecard

3 Lessons

Drill: Choosing the Country Universe and the Scoring Date10 min read

Drill: Turning the Ten Rules Into Measurable Indicators12 min read

Drill: Pulling Country Data From the IMF, World Bank, and BIS12 min read

Chapter 2: Scoring Mechanics

3 Lessons

Drill: Setting Thresholds and Converting Indicators Into Scores11 min read

Drill: Weighting the Rules Without Fooling Yourself10 min read

Drill: Handling Missing Data, Revisions, and Lagged Releases10 min read

Chapter 3: Scoring the Growth Engine Rules

2 Lessons

Drill: Scoring Demographics, Investment, and Manufacturing13 min read

Drill: Scoring Politics, Billionaires, and State Meddling13 min read

Chapter 4: Scoring the Stress Rules

3 Lessons

Drill: Scoring Inflation and Currency Valuation12 min read

Drill: Scoring the Five-Year Credit Rule and the Current Account13 min read

Drill: Scoring Hype With Sentiment and Valuation Signals10 min read

Chapter 5: Running the Full Scorecard

3 Lessons

Drill: Ranking a Panel of Emerging Markets on One Sheet13 min read

Drill: Back-Testing the Scorecard on Past Breakouts and Busts13 min read

Drill: Stress-Testing the Ranking With Alternative Weights11 min read

Chapter 6: India and the Allocation Call

3 Lessons

Drill: Scoring India and Writing a Watch List of Swing Indicators13 min read

Drill: Turning Country Scores Into an Allocation Through LRS, Feeder Funds, and Nifty Proxies12 min read

Capstone Drill: Presenting and Defending Your Country Scorecard12 min read