Practice Drills: Tracking a Macro Indicator Over a Ten Year Period

A hands-on drill course for market enthusiasts, history and macro curious readers, and investors from every track. Instead of reading headlines about one month's inflation print, you build and own a ten-year record of a single macro indicator, using India's CPI inflation as the worked example. You choose the indicator and learn where the official data lives, pull ten years of monthly numbers into a spreadsheet, deal with base year changes and revisions, and get the arithmetic of index levels and year-on-year change right. You then chart the decade, mark its highs, lows and turning points, split it into regimes, and line it up against the RBI repo rate, the 10-year G-Sec yield and the Nifty 50, learning to read those overlays without fooling yourself. You finish with a one-page decade summary, a monthly update routine, and a second indicator tracked the same way.