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Personal Savings Rate

US personal savings rate (BEA). Consumer-buffer gauge; low savings = stretched households.

the verdict —
At the 252d horizon, this signal hits in the predicted direction 46% of fires. Mean SPY forward return when it lights: +1.36%. Status: OOS validated. n = 196. Bearish on the underlying when fired.

Current state

Latest value · 2026-04-01
2.60
vs ~6 weeks ago
52%
vs 60 days ago
79%
vs 7 days ago
40%
last 90 observations · 2018-11-01 2026-04-01

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.

Personal Savings Rate
2.60 +0.0000 (+0.00%) over 1Y
Hover for date + value · Toggle SPY to compare relative move
33.0224.8116.608.390.184020052010201520212026
2005-05-01 → 2026-04-01 · 252 bars

What it has historically predicted

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

53%
+0.01%
1 d
51%
+0.34%
1 wk
48%
+0.12%
1 mo
53%
+0.69%
3 mo
51%
+1.3%
6 mo
54%
+1.4%
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=196
+0.01%
47% same direction
+0.34%
51% same direction
+0.12%
48% same direction
+0.69%
53% same direction
+1.3%
51% same direction
+1.4%
46% same direction
BTC
bitcoin
n=132
-0.57%
40% same direction
-0.93%
44% same direction
-2.0%
46% same direction
-7.2%
46% same direction
-14.9%
43% same direction
-41.8%
34% 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:
0 fires · 0% positive · avg +0.00%
⚠ This indicator hasn't fired since 2021-03-01 (1920 calendar days ago). Currently quiet — chart shows historical fires only.
−5.0%−2.5%0%+2.5%+5.0%
Each bar = one fire day (|z|≥2.5 from 180-day rolling baseline). Bar height = SPY return over the the next year, 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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