VOL. I · NO. 119 · standardpoorly.comTHU · MAY 28 · 2026FORWARD HORIZON · 1 d / 1 wk / 1 mo / 3 mo
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Consumer Loan Delinquency Rate (quarterly)

% of consumer loans 30+ days past due. Free proxy for private-credit health (true private-credit data is paywalled at Pitchbook/Preqin).

the verdict —
Engine has no recorded fires for this indicator (no day where |z|≥2 against the rolling window). The series is too steady, the threshold is too high, or the data is too short to evaluate. Status: in sample.
What to watch when it fires
LQDHYG

Current state

Latest value · 2026-01-01
2.64
vs ~6 weeks ago
15%
vs 60 days ago
23%
vs 7 days ago
2.9%
last 90 observations · 2003-10-01 2026-01-01

The series — full history

Daily readings, every reading we have. Pick a window with the time-period buttons; flip to candles via the global toggle in the masthead (or press C). Toggle the SPY overlay to see how this series and the S&P 500 have moved together.

Consumer Loan Delinquency Rate (quarterly)
2.64 -0.7100 (-21.19%) over 1Y
Hover for date + value · Toggle SPY to compare relative move
4.984.083.192.291.3919871996200620162026
1987-01-01 → 2026-01-01 · 157 bars

What it has historically predicted

Historically barely better than chance over the next trading day. We surface this for transparency, not because we'd trade on it.

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Beyond SPY — how this signal performs across markets

Same fire days, different forward returns. Each row asks: when this signal fires, what does that asset do? The big number is the average return; underneath is how often the asset moved the same direction as the signal (50% would be a coin flip).

target
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SPY
S&P 500 ETF
n=0
50% same direction
50% same direction
50% same direction
50% same direction
50% same direction
50% same direction

Each fire in history — when the signal popped, what SPY did next

Each bar is one historical fire — the indicator's value moved 2.5+ standard deviations from its rolling 180 trading-day mean (~9 months), or for monotonic “days since” indicators, crossed an 80th/90th/95th/99th percentile. Bar height = SPY's forward return at the selected horizon, signed by signal direction. Green above zero means the market moved with the signal; red below zero means it moved against.

horizon:
4 fires · 25% positive · avg 0.97%
⚠ This indicator hasn't fired since 2009-10-01 (6083 calendar days ago). Currently quiet — chart shows historical fires only.
−3.6%−1.8%0%+1.8%+3.6%2008-10-01 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.70) · SPY 1d: −3.63%2009-04-01 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.68) · SPY 1d: +2.92%2009-07-01 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.96) · SPY 1d: −2.73%2009-10-01 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.51) · SPY 1d: −0.47%2008-10-012009-07-012009-10-01
Each bar = one fire day (|z|≥2 from 60-day rolling baseline). Bar height = SPY return over the the next trading day, signed by signal direction. Dashed line = average across fires.
shaded cell = each row's strongest horizon (green = bullish forward return, red = bearish)“same direction” means the asset moved the same way the signal moved — opposite of a coin flip.