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Your Gut Might Beat The Watchlist You Trust Most

Every figure this video puts on screen, chased to a primary source. The script was supplied finished and recorded before any shot existed, so the usual remedy of changing a number in both the shot and the narration only half works here: the picture can be corrected and the recording cannot. Where a figure could not be sourced it was taken off screen rather than printed unsourced, and each of those is listed under Taken off screen below with what the shot draws instead.

Figures on screen

Countries: 195

Drawn as a counter in the beat about how much market there is to look at.

The United Nations has 193 member states, plus two non-member observer states, the Holy See and the State of Palestine, which is where the commonly used figure of 195 comes from.

Source: United Nations, member states — https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states

Listed companies: about 49,000

Drawn as a counter in the same beat.

The World Federation of Exchanges reports that its member exchanges, together with the other exchanges feeding its database, were home to 49,054 listed companies at the end of

  1. The figure on screen counts up to 49,000 rather than to the exact total, because the count moves with every listing and delisting and the beat is making a point about scale rather than quoting a register.

Source: World Federation of Exchanges, Focus — number of listed companies — https://focus.world-exchanges.org/articles/number-listed-companies

Sectors: 11

Drawn as a counter in the same beat.

The Global Industry Classification Standard, developed by MSCI and S&P Dow Jones Indices, divides the market into 11 sectors, which then break down into 25 industry groups, 74 industries and 163 sub industries. The 11 are Communication Services, Consumer Discretionary, Consumer Staples, Energy, Financials, Health Care, Industrials, Information Technology, Materials, Real Estate and Utilities.

Source: MSCI, GICS methodology — https://www.msci.com/indexes/documents/methodology/1_MSCI_Global_Industry_Classification_Standard_GICS_Methodology_20240801.pdf

Country outlines and the world map

Every map in the video is real geometry rather than a drawn approximation. The coastlines and borders are Natural Earth data at 1:110m, projected once with an Equal Earth projection for the world map and refitted individually for each country close up.

Source: Natural Earth, public domain map data — https://www.naturalearthdata.com/

Company marks

Every logo on screen is the real published mark, taken from the simple-icons project rather than redrawn. Companies whose mark simple-icons does not carry are set as a wordmark in the video’s own typeface instead, which is why Microsoft, Amazon and the index names appear as type rather than as marks.

Source: simple-icons — https://simpleicons.org/

What the charts are

Every price series in this video is invented, and none of it asserts that anything happened. The charts exist to show a mechanism the narration is describing: a breakout candle that is too extended, an asset rising while its sector falls, three failed touches at one level, a supplier turning before the household name, sentiment falling while price turns up, higher highs against sideways chop, demand consuming resting size in an order book, and an equity curve surviving a drawdown.

These are illustrative under the channel’s own rule: invented data teaching a mechanism is legitimate, invented data asserting a result is not. No win rate, no backtest, no equity result and no performance claim appears anywhere in the video, and no chart is labelled as a real instrument.

Country associations

The video names things each country’s market is known for. These are descriptive of what those markets contain rather than claims about performance, and each is drawn with the real marks of companies listed in that country.

Taken off screen

Figures the narration does not state and that could not be chased to a primary source. Each shot draws the quantity instead of inventing a number.