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the verdict —
At the 1d horizon, this signal hits in the predicted direction 48% of fires. Mean SPY forward return when it lights: -0.03%. Status: OOS validated. n = 3575. Bearish on the underlying when fired.
What to watch when it fires
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Current state

Latest value · 2026-09-08
613.5
vs ~6 weeks ago
3.3%
vs 60 days ago
7.9%
vs 7 days ago
7.4%
last 90 observations · 2026-04-30 2026-09-08

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.

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613.5 -23.62 (-3.71%) over 1Y
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2025-05-20 → 2026-09-08 · 252 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.

48%
−0.03%
1 d
48%
−0.08%
1 wk
49%
−0.11%
1 mo
50%
−0.15%
3 mo
50%
+0.02%
6 mo
52%
+0.68%
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=3,575
-0.03%
48% same direction
-0.08%
48% same direction
-0.11%
49% same direction
-0.15%
50% same direction
+0.02%
50% same direction
+0.68%
52% same direction
MOVE
bond volatility
n=3,509
+0.22%
52% same direction
+0.86%
54% same direction
+2.5%
54% same direction
+3.5%
53% same direction
+4.3%
54% same direction
+4.8%
54% 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:
224 fires · 53% positive · avg 0.07%
−9.1%−4.5%0%+4.5%+9.1%2013-07-25 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.33) · SPY 1d: +0.11%2013-07-26 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.10) · SPY 1d: −0.31%2013-07-29 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.61) · SPY 1d: +0.00%2013-07-30 · ↑ up-fire (z=4.40) · SPY 1d: +0.07%2013-07-31 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.90) · SPY 1d: +1.16%2013-08-01 · ↑ up-fire (z=4.06) · SPY 1d: +0.17%2013-08-02 · ↑ up-fire (z=4.13) · SPY 1d: −0.15%2013-08-05 · ↑ up-fire (z=4.40) · SPY 1d: −0.57%2013-08-06 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.96) · SPY 1d: −0.32%2013-08-07 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.90) · SPY 1d: +0.37%2013-08-08 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.63) · SPY 1d: −0.29%2013-08-09 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.48) · SPY 1d: −0.12%2013-08-12 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.28) · SPY 1d: +0.30%2013-08-13 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.81) · SPY 1d: −0.51%2013-08-14 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.63) · SPY 1d: −1.40%2013-08-15 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.54) · SPY 1d: −0.33%2013-08-16 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.63) · SPY 1d: −0.64%2013-08-19 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.77) · SPY 1d: +0.49%2013-08-20 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.86) · SPY 1d: −0.62%2013-08-21 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.75) · SPY 1d: +0.91%2013-08-22 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.74) · SPY 1d: +0.34%2013-08-23 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.18) · SPY 1d: −0.37%2013-08-26 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.27) · SPY 1d: −1.61%2013-08-27 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.75) · SPY 1d: +0.36%2013-08-28 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.90) · SPY 1d: +0.16%2013-08-29 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.98) · SPY 1d: −0.32%2013-08-30 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.90) · SPY 1d: +0.45%2013-09-03 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.94) · SPY 1d: +0.83%2013-09-04 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.84) · SPY 1d: +0.13%2013-09-05 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.95) · SPY 1d: +0.05%2013-09-06 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.13) · SPY 1d: +0.96%2013-09-09 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.05) · SPY 1d: +0.74%2013-09-10 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.87) · SPY 1d: +0.31%2013-09-11 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.06) · SPY 1d: −0.27%2013-09-12 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.92) · SPY 1d: +0.22%2013-09-13 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.75) · SPY 1d: +0.58%2013-09-17 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.76) · SPY 1d: +1.16%2013-09-18 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.72) · SPY 1d: −0.17%2013-09-19 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.77) · SPY 1d: −1.18%2013-09-20 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.95) · SPY 1d: −0.46%2013-09-23 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.82) · SPY 1d: −0.24%2013-09-24 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.94) · SPY 1d: −0.29%2013-09-25 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.01) · SPY 1d: +0.39%2013-09-26 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.06) · SPY 1d: −0.46%2013-09-27 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.10) · SPY 1d: −0.53%2013-09-30 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.86) · SPY 1d: +0.79%2013-10-01 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.81) · SPY 1d: −0.09%2013-10-02 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.71) · SPY 1d: −0.92%2013-10-04 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.69) · SPY 1d: −0.86%2013-10-07 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.55) · SPY 1d: −1.17%2013-10-18 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.58) · SPY 1d: +0.01%2015-03-24 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.73) · SPY 1d: −1.47%2015-06-23 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.12) · SPY 1d: −0.73%2015-06-24 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.34) · SPY 1d: −0.30%2015-06-25 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.94) · SPY 1d: −0.02%2015-06-26 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.87) · SPY 1d: −2.10%2015-07-13 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.00) · SPY 1d: +0.43%2015-07-14 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.80) · SPY 1d: −0.03%2015-07-15 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.75) · SPY 1d: +0.80%2015-07-16 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.97) · SPY 1d: +0.08%2015-07-17 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.94) · SPY 1d: +0.05%2015-07-20 · ↑ up-fire (z=4.48) · SPY 1d: −0.40%2015-07-21 · ↑ up-fire (z=4.35) · SPY 1d: −0.18%2015-07-22 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.82) · SPY 1d: −0.56%2015-07-23 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.32) · SPY 1d: −1.04%2015-07-24 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.53) · SPY 1d: −0.58%2015-07-27 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.83) · SPY 1d: +1.23%2015-07-28 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.98) · SPY 1d: +0.69%2015-07-29 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.23) · SPY 1d: +0.02%2015-07-30 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.78) · SPY 1d: −0.15%2015-08-05 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.78) · SPY 1d: −0.82%2015-10-26 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.66) · SPY 1d: −0.19%2015-10-27 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.60) · SPY 1d: +1.14%2015-10-28 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.62) · SPY 1d: −0.06%2015-10-29 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.66) · SPY 1d: −0.43%2015-11-05 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.98) · SPY 1d: −0.05%2015-11-06 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.67) · SPY 1d: −0.93%2015-11-09 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.53) · SPY 1d: +0.23%2015-11-10 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.66) · SPY 1d: −0.39%2015-11-11 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.74) · SPY 1d: −1.40%2015-11-12 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.55) · SPY 1d: −1.12%2017-04-28 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.60) · SPY 1d: +0.25%2017-05-01 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.81) · SPY 1d: +0.04%2017-05-02 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.77) · SPY 1d: −0.12%2017-05-03 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.58) · SPY 1d: +0.12%2018-03-27 · ↓ down-fire (z=-3.10) · SPY 1d: +0.29%2018-03-28 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.98) · SPY 1d: −1.28%2018-04-02 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.66) · SPY 1d: −1.28%2018-04-03 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.54) · SPY 1d: −1.07%2018-04-04 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.65) · SPY 1d: −0.79%2018-06-20 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.61) · SPY 1d: −0.63%2018-07-17 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.60) · SPY 1d: +0.21%2018-07-24 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.72) · SPY 1d: +0.85%2018-07-25 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.88) · SPY 1d: −0.24%2020-01-06 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.50) · SPY 1d: −0.28%2020-01-07 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.50) · SPY 1d: +0.53%2020-01-08 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.68) · SPY 1d: +0.68%2020-01-09 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.94) · SPY 1d: −0.29%2020-01-10 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.83) · SPY 1d: +0.69%2020-01-13 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.15) · SPY 1d: −0.15%2020-01-14 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.77) · SPY 1d: +0.23%2020-01-15 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.90) · SPY 1d: +0.83%2020-01-16 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.88) · SPY 1d: +0.31%2020-01-17 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.83) · SPY 1d: −0.20%2020-01-21 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.69) · SPY 1d: +0.01%2020-01-22 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.62) · SPY 1d: +0.11%2020-01-29 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.54) · SPY 1d: +0.33%2020-03-12 · ↓ down-fire (z=-3.39) · SPY 1d: −8.55%2020-03-16 · ↓ down-fire (z=-3.90) · SPY 1d: −5.40%2020-03-17 · ↓ down-fire (z=-3.47) · SPY 1d: +5.06%2020-03-18 · ↓ down-fire (z=-3.52) · SPY 1d: −0.21%2020-03-19 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.95) · SPY 1d: +4.87%2020-03-20 · ↓ down-fire (z=-3.10) · SPY 1d: +2.56%2020-03-23 · ↓ down-fire (z=-3.11) · SPY 1d: −9.06%2020-08-26 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.07) · SPY 1d: +0.22%2020-08-27 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.63) · SPY 1d: +0.65%2020-08-28 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.58) · SPY 1d: −0.36%2020-08-31 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.50) · SPY 1d: +0.94%2020-09-01 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.51) · SPY 1d: +1.45%2020-09-02 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.67) · SPY 1d: −3.44%2021-04-05 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.85) · SPY 1d: −0.06%2021-04-06 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.61) · SPY 1d: +0.12%2021-04-07 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.03) · SPY 1d: +0.47%2021-04-08 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.95) · SPY 1d: +0.73%2021-04-09 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.85) · SPY 1d: +0.04%2021-04-12 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.73) · SPY 1d: +0.30%2021-04-13 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.58) · SPY 1d: −0.34%2021-04-29 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.59) · SPY 1d: −0.66%2021-04-30 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.17) · SPY 1d: +0.22%2021-05-03 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.92) · SPY 1d: −0.62%2021-05-04 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.58) · SPY 1d: +0.03%2021-05-06 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.57) · SPY 1d: +0.73%2021-05-25 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.57) · SPY 1d: +0.20%2021-05-26 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.51) · SPY 1d: +0.05%2021-05-27 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.71) · SPY 1d: +0.18%2021-06-07 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.56) · SPY 1d: +0.02%2021-06-28 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.73) · SPY 1d: +0.05%2021-06-29 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.51) · SPY 1d: +0.08%2021-07-01 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.51) · SPY 1d: +0.76%2021-07-26 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.51) · SPY 1d: −0.46%2022-02-03 · ↓ down-fire (z=-5.51) · SPY 1d: −0.47%2022-02-04 · ↓ down-fire (z=-5.13) · SPY 1d: +0.32%2022-02-07 · ↓ down-fire (z=-5.35) · SPY 1d: −0.82%2022-02-08 · ↓ down-fire (z=-5.17) · SPY 1d: −1.46%2022-02-09 · ↓ down-fire (z=-4.33) · SPY 1d: +1.80%2022-02-10 · ↓ down-fire (z=-4.25) · SPY 1d: +1.97%2022-02-11 · ↓ down-fire (z=-4.35) · SPY 1d: +0.33%2022-02-14 · ↓ down-fire (z=-4.18) · SPY 1d: −1.61%2022-02-15 · ↓ down-fire (z=-3.86) · SPY 1d: −0.11%2022-02-16 · ↓ down-fire (z=-3.83) · SPY 1d: +2.14%2022-02-17 · ↓ down-fire (z=-3.94) · SPY 1d: +0.65%2022-02-18 · ↓ down-fire (z=-3.81) · SPY 1d: +1.07%2022-02-22 · ↓ down-fire (z=-3.76) · SPY 1d: +1.77%2022-02-23 · ↓ down-fire (z=-3.70) · SPY 1d: −1.50%2022-02-24 · ↓ down-fire (z=-3.30) · SPY 1d: −2.21%2022-02-25 · ↓ down-fire (z=-3.12) · SPY 1d: +0.26%2022-02-28 · ↓ down-fire (z=-3.00) · SPY 1d: +1.52%2022-03-01 · ↓ down-fire (z=-3.10) · SPY 1d: −1.84%2022-03-02 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.89) · SPY 1d: +0.50%2022-03-03 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.93) · SPY 1d: +0.81%2022-03-04 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.91) · SPY 1d: +2.95%2022-03-07 · ↓ down-fire (z=-3.11) · SPY 1d: +0.76%2022-03-08 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.95) · SPY 1d: −2.68%2022-03-09 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.69) · SPY 1d: +0.45%2022-03-10 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.69) · SPY 1d: +1.27%2022-03-11 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.78) · SPY 1d: +0.73%2022-03-14 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.73) · SPY 1d: −2.20%2022-03-15 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.55) · SPY 1d: −2.22%2022-10-27 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.88) · SPY 1d: −2.38%2022-10-28 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.78) · SPY 1d: +0.72%2022-10-31 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.93) · SPY 1d: +0.44%2022-11-01 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.78) · SPY 1d: +2.51%2022-11-02 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.87) · SPY 1d: +1.03%2022-11-03 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.85) · SPY 1d: −1.44%2022-11-04 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.72) · SPY 1d: −0.96%2024-01-24 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.56) · SPY 1d: +0.54%2024-01-25 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.60) · SPY 1d: −0.13%2024-01-26 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.59) · SPY 1d: +0.79%2024-01-29 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.76) · SPY 1d: −0.08%2024-01-30 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.69) · SPY 1d: −1.63%2024-02-02 · ↑ up-fire (z=4.81) · SPY 1d: −0.36%2024-02-05 · ↑ up-fire (z=4.10) · SPY 1d: +0.29%2024-02-06 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.81) · SPY 1d: +0.83%2024-02-07 · ↑ up-fire (z=4.06) · SPY 1d: +0.04%2024-02-08 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.90) · SPY 1d: +0.58%2024-02-09 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.70) · SPY 1d: −0.04%2024-02-12 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.59) · SPY 1d: −1.38%2024-02-13 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.26) · SPY 1d: +0.91%2024-02-14 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.47) · SPY 1d: +0.69%2024-02-15 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.59) · SPY 1d: −0.50%2024-02-16 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.22) · SPY 1d: −0.55%2024-02-20 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.09) · SPY 1d: +0.09%2024-02-21 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.92) · SPY 1d: +2.07%2024-02-22 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.21) · SPY 1d: +0.07%2024-02-23 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.07) · SPY 1d: −0.37%2024-02-26 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.94) · SPY 1d: +0.19%2024-02-27 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.96) · SPY 1d: −0.13%2024-02-28 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.83) · SPY 1d: +0.36%2024-02-29 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.87) · SPY 1d: +0.94%2024-03-01 · ↑ up-fire (z=3.01) · SPY 1d: −0.11%2024-03-04 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.85) · SPY 1d: −1.00%2024-03-05 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.64) · SPY 1d: +0.51%2024-03-06 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.68) · SPY 1d: +0.99%2024-03-07 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.89) · SPY 1d: −0.60%2024-03-08 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.70) · SPY 1d: −0.09%2024-10-04 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.68) · SPY 1d: −0.90%2024-10-08 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.57) · SPY 1d: +0.69%2025-01-28 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.53) · SPY 1d: −0.45%2025-01-29 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.52) · SPY 1d: +0.54%2025-01-30 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.67) · SPY 1d: −0.53%2025-01-31 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.65) · SPY 1d: −0.67%2025-02-03 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.75) · SPY 1d: +0.67%2025-02-04 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.80) · SPY 1d: +0.40%2025-02-05 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.75) · SPY 1d: +0.35%2025-02-06 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.81) · SPY 1d: −0.92%2025-02-07 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.79) · SPY 1d: +0.68%2025-02-10 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.77) · SPY 1d: +0.08%2025-02-11 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.75) · SPY 1d: −0.32%2025-02-12 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.78) · SPY 1d: +1.06%2025-02-13 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.77) · SPY 1d: −0.01%2025-02-14 · ↑ up-fire (z=2.83) · SPY 1d: +0.29%2026-03-26 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.55) · SPY 1d: +1.70%2026-03-27 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.88) · SPY 1d: +0.33%2026-03-30 · ↓ down-fire (z=-2.62) · SPY 1d: −2.91%2013-07-252020-03-202026-03-30
Each bar = one fire day (|z|≥2.5 from 180-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.

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