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ERCOT (Texas) Electricity Demand

Texas grid demand (MWh/day) — industrial + data-center + crypto-mining load on an isolated grid.

the verdict —
At the 63d horizon, this signal hits in the predicted direction 47% of fires. Mean SPY forward return when it lights: -0.53%. Status: OOS validated. n = 1799. Bearish on the underlying when fired.

Current state

Latest value · 2026-06-13
1,573,679
vs ~6 weeks ago
8.9%
vs 60 days ago
18%
vs 7 days ago
12%
last 90 observations · 2026-03-16 2026-06-13

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.

ERCOT (Texas) Electricity Demand
1.57M +200K (+14.56%) over 1Y
Hover for date + value · Toggle SPY to compare relative move
1.71M1.54M1.37M1.20M1.02MOct 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26
2025-10-05 → 2026-06-13 · 252 bars

What it has historically predicted

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

49%
−0.04%
1 d
53%
−0.04%
1 wk
53%
−0.13%
1 mo
53%
−0.53%
3 mo
52%
+0.13%
6 mo
52%
−1.0%
1 yr

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
1 d
1 wk
1 mo
3 mo
6 mo
1 yr
SPY
S&P 500 ETF
n=1,799
-0.04%
49% same direction
-0.04%
47% same direction
-0.13%
47% same direction
-0.53%
47% same direction
+0.13%
52% same direction
-1.0%
48% same direction
DXY
dollar index
n=1,627
-0.01%
48% same direction
-0.04%
48% same direction
-0.10%
46% same direction
+0.19%
54% same direction
+0.08%
53% same direction
-0.81%
38% same direction
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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:
63 fires · 73% positive · avg +3.48%
−16.0%−8.0%0%+8.0%+16.0%2019-05-23 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.92) · SPY 63d: +3.62%2019-05-24 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.77) · SPY 63d: +0.73%2019-06-19 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.68) · SPY 63d: +2.74%2019-06-20 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.87) · SPY 63d: +1.76%2019-06-21 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.20) · SPY 63d: +1.46%2019-07-10 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.57) · SPY 63d: −3.38%2020-05-19 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.02) · SPY 63d: +15.98%2020-05-20 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.04) · SPY 63d: +13.57%2020-05-22 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.04) · SPY 63d: +14.91%2020-06-04 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.08) · SPY 63d: +14.88%2020-06-05 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.39) · SPY 63d: +8.16%2020-06-08 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.50) · SPY 63d: +5.99%2020-06-09 · ↑ up-fire (z=4.06) · SPY 63d: +3.87%2020-06-16 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.65) · SPY 63d: +8.69%2020-06-17 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.50) · SPY 63d: +8.71%2020-06-30 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.76) · SPY 63d: +7.79%2020-07-01 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.86) · SPY 63d: +7.85%2020-07-02 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.89) · SPY 63d: +7.95%2020-07-09 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.78) · SPY 63d: +8.39%2020-07-10 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.72) · SPY 63d: +8.25%2020-07-13 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.89) · SPY 63d: +10.17%2020-07-14 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.79) · SPY 63d: +10.51%2020-07-15 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.56) · SPY 63d: +8.79%2021-02-12 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.96) · SPY 63d: +6.10%2021-06-09 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.75) · SPY 63d: +6.94%2021-06-10 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.78) · SPY 63d: +5.99%2021-06-11 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.85) · SPY 63d: +4.98%2021-06-14 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.08) · SPY 63d: +5.01%2021-06-15 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.67) · SPY 63d: +4.64%2021-06-17 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.62) · SPY 63d: +5.97%2021-06-24 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.63) · SPY 63d: +4.25%2021-06-25 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.60) · SPY 63d: +4.06%2022-02-04 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.82) · SPY 63d: −8.33%2022-05-09 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.03) · SPY 63d: +3.31%2022-05-10 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.99) · SPY 63d: +5.24%2022-05-20 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.60) · SPY 63d: +6.09%2022-06-13 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.67) · SPY 63d: +4.83%2022-10-18 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.53) · SPY 63d: −4.72%2022-10-19 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.51) · SPY 63d: −7.43%2023-06-12 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.55) · SPY 63d: +2.81%2023-06-15 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.96) · SPY 63d: +0.17%2023-06-16 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.02) · SPY 63d: +0.95%2023-06-20 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.35) · SPY 63d: +1.26%2023-06-21 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.18) · SPY 63d: +0.85%2023-06-23 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.59) · SPY 63d: −0.64%2023-06-26 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.08) · SPY 63d: +0.18%2023-06-27 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.09) · SPY 63d: −2.36%2023-06-28 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.98) · SPY 63d: −2.37%2023-06-29 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.83) · SPY 63d: −2.19%2023-06-30 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.61) · SPY 63d: −3.56%2023-07-13 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.52) · SPY 63d: −2.94%2024-05-08 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.51) · SPY 63d: +2.60%2024-05-21 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.65) · SPY 63d: +5.51%2024-05-22 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.55) · SPY 63d: +4.98%2024-05-24 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.54) · SPY 63d: +5.92%2024-06-26 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.50) · SPY 63d: +4.50%2025-02-19 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.56) · SPY 63d: −3.28%2025-02-20 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.33) · SPY 63d: −4.51%2025-02-21 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.53) · SPY 63d: −2.81%2025-10-29 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.51) · SPY 63d: −0.67%2025-10-30 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.75) · SPY 63d: −2.29%2025-10-31 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.68) · SPY 63d: −1.09%2025-11-03 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.62) · SPY 63d: −0.42%2019-05-232021-06-252025-11-03
Each bar = one fire day (|z|≥2.5 from 180-day rolling baseline). Bar height = SPY return over the the next trading quarter, 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.
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