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Live guide · paid cousins on public prints

What the paid desks sell

Quad is Reflation. Tactical 5/7 · Mixed-on. 8/11 sectors above the 200-day. Technology is the weakest sector, -14.1% from its 52-week high. Value leads the S&P by 16.2 pt over 12 months. Bespoke heatmap, Callan quilt, Koyfin factors, a growth–inflation quad, StockCharts rotation, a 60/40 scar, and the missing-days photograph — live public prints. A peak is not called.

Quad

Reflation

GDPNow 3.5%

Tactical

5/7

Mixed-on

Above 200-day

8/11

8/11 above 50-day

Weakest sector

-14.1%

Technology

Sentimentrader cousin · AAII · CFTC · Cboe · first cuts

The crowd, four sleeves

AAII spread -20.7 pt. E-mini spec net -129,414. Equity P/C 0.59. SKEW 149.1. Last first-cut 2024-10. Four sleeves, photographs after extremes, not a composite you trade.

AAII spread

-8.9

-20.7

30.8 / 51.4

Equity P/C

+0.1

0.59

total 0.92

SKEW

+4.6

149.1

Yahoo ^SKEW

E-mini spec net

+63048

-129,414

-0.5σ 3y

AAII bull − bear

AAII weekly, last print 2026-11-11: 30.8% bull / 51.4% bear, spread -20.7 pt. Photographs are median S&P after the extreme deciles — a Sentimentrader cousin, not a composite you trade.

bottom decile bull−bear

Extreme bearish

n
1
S&P 3m
0.0%
S&P 1y
0.0%

top decile bull−bear

Extreme bullish

n
1
S&P 3m
+0.3%
S&P 1y
+0.3%

Commitment of Traders · spec net

CFTC non-commercial net on the E-mini is -129,414 contracts, -0.5σ of the last three years. Specs are a crowd photograph, not a positioning ticket. Gold, crude, the dollar, and 10-year notes sit next to it.

E-mini S&P

-129,414

-0.5σ

Gold

179,548

-0.9σ

WTI crude

80,289

-1.4σ

Dollar index

14,190

+1.1σ

10-year notes

-962,359

-1.2σ

Equity put/call

Equity put/call 0.59 · total 0.92. Live print from Cboe daily stats when the door opens; history is Cboe official 1995–2019 plus the last tape. Above 1 is fear. Below 0.60 is complacency. Neither is a timer.

equity P/C ≥ 1.0

Puts bid

n
2
S&P 3m
+4.5%
S&P 1y
+5.9%

equity P/C ≤ 0.60

Calls bid

n
68
S&P 3m
+2.2%
S&P 1y
+8.2%

Cboe SKEW

Cboe SKEW 149.1 on 2026-11-11. 100 is a lognormal smile. 120 is ordinary. 140 is the tail being bid — often into a quiet tape, not a crash. Photographs after those rooms, overlapping months.

SKEW ≥ 140

Tail bid

n
56
S&P 3m
+2.8%
S&P 1y
+11.5%

SKEW ≤ 118

Tail quiet

n
194
S&P 3m
+3.8%
S&P 1y
+12.1%

First-cut analogs

First ≥25 bp cut after a ≥1 pp hike cycle. Last analog 2024-10 from a funds peak in 2023-08. Median S&P after those prints: 3m 5.8%, 1y 15.8%. 1989, 1995, 2019 were soft. 2001 and 2007 were not. A first cut is not a buy ticket.

Last first cut

2024-10

peak 2023-08

Median S&P 3m

+5.8%

after the cut

Median S&P 1y

+15.8%

overlapping

Cuts in sample

25

≥25 bp after ≥1 pp hike

CutPeakFundsDropS&P 3mS&P 6mS&P 1y
2024-102023-084.83%−0.50+5.8%-2.5%+20.0%
2019-082019-042.13%−0.29+7.5%+1.3%+19.4%
2007-092007-024.94%−0.32-4.2%-13.5%-24.0%
2001-012000-075.98%−0.56-7.6%-11.4%-17.4%
1995-081995-045.74%−0.31+8.0%+13.2%+15.8%
1989-061989-039.53%−0.32———
1987-111987-106.69%−0.60———
1987-011986-126.43%−0.48———
1984-091984-0811.30%−0.34———
1982-051982-0414.45%−0.49———
1981-081981-0617.82%−1.28———
1981-021981-0115.93%−3.15———
1980-051980-0410.98%−6.63———
1979-111979-1013.18%−0.59———
1975-101975-095.82%−0.42———
1974-081974-0712.01%−0.91———
1973-101973-0910.01%−0.77———
1971-101971-085.20%−0.37———
1969-071969-068.61%−0.29———
1968-091968-055.78%−0.34———
1966-121966-115.40%−0.36———
1961-121961-112.33%−0.28———
1961-031961-022.02%−0.52———
1960-061959-113.32%−0.68———
1957-121957-102.98%−0.52———

Eleven SPDRs · 50-day · 200-day · daily

Is the green day broad?

SPY -0.2%. The index is red and 9 of 11 sectors are down. 6 of 11 sit above both the 50-day and the 200-day. A soft day is not a call. Not a ticket.

S&P day

-0.2%

SPY

Sectors up

2/11

today

Above both

6/11

50-day and 200-day

Day read

Soft

broad, narrow, or the AI book

XLK

AI

Technology

-0.4%

Slipping

50d -7.4%

200d +1.7%

XLC

AI

Communication

-0.6%

Broken

50d -1.4%

200d -3.9%

XLY

Discretionary

-0.6%

Strong

50d +5.8%

200d +4.2%

XLF

Financials

-0.4%

Strong

50d +4.4%

200d +8.4%

XLV

Health care

-0.3%

Strong

50d +7.8%

200d +17.7%

XLI

Industrials

-0.6%

Repair

50d +0.5%

200d -2.0%

XLP

Staples

-0.2%

Strong

50d +6.8%

200d +7.6%

XLE

Energy

+2.1%

Slipping

50d -0.5%

200d +8.9%

XLB

Materials

-0.8%

Strong

50d +3.3%

200d +2.7%

XLRE

Real estate

-0.1%

Strong

50d +4.6%

200d +2.5%

XLU

Utilities

+0.6%

Repair

50d +5.2%

200d -0.6%

StrongAbove bothSlippingLost the 50-dayRepairBack over the 50-dayBrokenUnder both

Bespoke Daily Sector Snapshot · Finviz map · internals

Eleven sectors, one heatmap

8 of 11 sectors sit above their 200-day, 8 above the 50-day. Bespoke internals cousin on the eleven SPDRs — not NYSE advance/decline. Narrow leadership fails this while the cap-weight tape still prints green.

Weakest

-14.1%

Technology

Above 50-day

8/11

participation

Above 200-day

8/11

trend

Tech from high

-14.1%

XLK

Health care

-0.7%

XLV

Staples

-0.7%

XLP

Financials

-1.3%

XLF

Materials

-2.4%

XLB

Real estate

-3.2%

XLRE

Discretionary

-3.4%

XLY

Energy

-7.6%

XLE

Utilities

-7.7%

XLU

Industrials

-8.9%

XLI

Communication

-10.1%

XLC

Technology

-14.1%

XLK

SleeveFrom high1d1w1mYTD1yvs S&P 1yvs 200dRSI
TechnologyXLK-14.1%-0.4%+6.9%-8.8%+20.6%+18.5%+7.5%+1.7%42.3
CommunicationXLC-10.1%-0.6%+3.5%-2.5%-8.3%-5.4%-16.4%-3.9%53.7
IndustrialsXLI-8.9%-0.6%+4.6%+1.8%+9.6%+10.2%-0.8%-2.0%53.0
UtilitiesXLU-7.7%+0.6%+1.8%+5.6%+3.2%-1.8%-12.8%-0.6%66.0
EnergyXLE-7.6%+2.1%+5.0%-4.3%+44.7%+41.4%+30.4%+8.9%48.3
DiscretionaryXLY-3.4%-0.6%+2.3%+7.9%+0.7%+0.4%-10.6%+4.2%60.7
Real estateXLRE-3.2%-0.1%+0.6%+7.4%+10.4%+6.8%-4.2%+2.5%63.0
MaterialsXLB-2.4%-0.8%+0.6%+5.9%+16.0%+20.2%+9.2%+2.7%55.5
FinancialsXLF-1.3%-0.4%+1.6%+7.2%+6.7%+9.8%-1.2%+8.4%61.0
StaplesXLP-0.7%-0.2%+0.1%+6.1%+17.5%+17.9%+6.9%+7.6%62.4
Health careXLV-0.7%-0.3%+1.9%+8.3%+21.7%+25.0%+14.0%+17.7%66.9

Koyfin / YCharts markets snapshot cousin

Cross-asset, one tape

Stocks, duration, credit, gold, oil, the dollar, bitcoin. One-day through one-year. The world board still holds the 36-month Pearson.

SleeveFrom high1d1w1mYTD1yvs S&P 1yvs 200dRSI
S&P 500SPY-2.7%-0.2%+3.4%-1.5%+11.2%+11.0%0.0%+3.6%49.0
Nasdaq 100QQQ-9.4%-0.3%+6.4%-5.6%+12.1%+10.7%-0.3%+0.9%45.4
Russell 2000IWM-8.5%-1.3%+3.1%+2.9%+13.5%+14.4%+3.3%-0.0%49.7
Intl developedEFA-4.3%-0.5%+1.4%+1.3%+8.4%+8.5%-2.6%+0.7%50.7
EmergingEEM-14.3%-1.6%+5.2%-5.2%+11.6%+9.9%-1.1%-4.6%44.0
Long bondsTLT-12.0%-1.3%-2.5%+1.3%-8.3%-11.2%-22.2%-5.3%42.3
High yieldHYG-5.1%-0.4%-0.3%+0.3%-4.4%-4.5%-15.5%-2.9%44.7
GoldGLD-28.3%-2.6%-5.3%-5.4%-10.3%-6.4%-17.4%-13.1%37.7
OilUSO-14.0%+3.1%-1.6%-5.1%+110.8%+100.5%+89.5%+14.5%42.5
DollarUUP0.0%+0.2%+1.7%+1.0%+8.8%+4.5%-6.5%+5.0%67.1
BitcoinBTC-USD-17.5%-3.3%-5.6%-12.1%-18.3%+0.9%-10.1%-2.2%30.2
T-billsBIL-0.2%0.0%+0.1%-0.0%+0.1%-0.0%-11.1%-0.0%46.3

S&P 500

-2.7%

from 52w high

Nasdaq 100

-9.4%

from 52w high

Russell 2000

-8.5%

from 52w high

Bitcoin 1y

+0.9%

BTC-USD

Koyfin style box cousin · AQR / JPM Guide factors

Value, growth, small, and the ballast

Twelve-month relative strength versus the S&P. Magnificent 7 is MAGS when Yahoo has it. Equal-weight is the concentration photograph.

SleeveFrom high1d1w1mYTD1yvs S&P 1yvs 200dRSI
ValueIWD-0.7%-0.1%+2.0%+3.7%+25.3%+27.2%+16.2%+9.8%61.0
Equal-weightRSP-0.8%-0.5%+2.2%+4.5%+15.7%+16.8%+5.8%+6.1%58.3
QualityQUAL-1.4%-0.4%+2.5%-0.6%+13.1%+14.3%+3.3%+5.2%52.1
Min volUSMV-0.2%+0.0%+2.5%+3.7%+10.8%+10.6%-0.4%+7.1%61.8
MomentumMTUM-19.4%+0.4%+11.1%-8.8%+11.1%+10.5%-0.5%-4.3%44.6
EmergingEEM-14.3%-1.6%+5.2%-5.2%+11.6%+9.9%-1.1%-4.6%44.0
Intl developedEFA-4.3%-0.5%+1.4%+1.3%+8.4%+8.5%-2.6%+0.7%50.7
Magnificent 7MAGS-7.6%-0.4%+2.7%-5.8%+4.0%+2.0%-9.0%+3.2%44.2
T-billsBIL-0.2%0.0%+0.1%-0.0%+0.1%-0.0%-11.1%-0.0%46.3
GrowthIWF-10.1%-0.4%+5.2%-6.6%-1.9%-3.4%-14.4%-2.7%43.2
High yieldHYG-5.1%-0.4%-0.3%+0.3%-4.4%-4.5%-15.5%-2.9%44.7
GoldGLD-28.3%-2.6%-5.3%-5.4%-10.3%-6.4%-17.4%-13.1%37.7
Long bondsTLT-12.0%-1.3%-2.5%+1.3%-8.3%-11.2%-22.2%-5.3%42.3

Value − growth

AQR / Fama-French cousin. Negative is a growth tape.

+30.6%

Small − large

Russell versus the S&P. Confirmation, not a size ticket.

+3.3%

Equal − cap

The concentration photograph. MAGS is the other side.

+5.8%

EAFE − S&P

Home bias live. Dual momentum uses the same 12 months.

-2.6%

EM − S&P

Emerging versus the S&P. A dollar and China cousin.

-1.1%

Gold − S&P

Haven relative strength. 2022 gold was noisy ballast.

-17.4%

Junk − long bonds

Credit versus duration. Both can sell.

+6.7%

Oil − dollar

Commodity versus DXY cousin. A second clock for XLE.

+96.0%

Callan periodic table cousin · JPM Guide to the Markets

The returns quilt

Callan periodic table cousin / JPM Guide page 6. Eight public sleeves, calendar years ranked best to worst. Current year is year-to-date, not a full print. CPI-deflated is the other toggle — brutal in 2022 and the 1970s. Last year’s winner is not this year’s ticket.

YearBest234567Worst
2016

US small

+19.7%

US large

+9.6%

Emerging

+8.8%

Gold

+8.0%

High yield

+7.4%

REITs

+3.5%

Long bonds

-1.2%

Intl

-1.7%

2017

Emerging

+34.6%

Intl

+21.8%

US large

+19.4%

US small

+13.1%

Gold

+12.8%

Long bonds

+6.5%

High yield

+0.8%

REITs

+0.6%

2018

Gold

-1.9%

Long bonds

-4.2%

US large

-6.4%

High yield

-7.1%

REITs

-10.1%

US small

-12.2%

Intl

-16.4%

Emerging

-17.1%

2019

US large

+28.8%

REITs

+24.4%

US small

+23.7%

Intl

+18.1%

Gold

+17.9%

Emerging

+14.9%

Long bonds

+11.5%

High yield

+8.4%

2020

Gold

+24.8%

US small

+18.3%

Long bonds

+16.4%

US large

+16.2%

Emerging

+15.2%

Intl

+5.1%

High yield

-0.7%

REITs

-8.5%

2021

REITs

+36.6%

US large

+27.0%

US small

+13.5%

Intl

+7.8%

High yield

-0.3%

Gold

-4.2%

Emerging

-5.5%

Long bonds

-6.1%

2022

Gold

-0.8%

High yield

-15.4%

Intl

-16.6%

US large

-19.5%

US small

-21.6%

Emerging

-22.4%

REITs

-28.9%

Long bonds

-32.8%

2023

US large

+24.3%

US small

+15.1%

Intl

+14.8%

Gold

+12.7%

REITs

+7.1%

Emerging

+6.1%

High yield

+5.1%

Long bonds

-0.7%

2024

Gold

+26.7%

US large

+23.3%

US small

+10.1%

Emerging

+4.0%

High yield

+1.6%

REITs

+0.8%

Intl

+0.4%

Long bonds

-11.7%

2025

Gold

+63.7%

Emerging

+30.8%

Intl

+27.0%

US large

+16.4%

US small

+11.4%

High yield

+2.5%

Long bonds

-0.2%

REITs

-0.7%

2026 YTD

US small

+13.5%

Emerging

+11.6%

US large

+11.2%

REITs

+9.5%

Intl

+8.4%

High yield

-4.4%

Long bonds

-8.3%

Gold

-10.3%

StockCharts RRG cousin · relative rotation

Who is leading, who is fading

2 of 11 sectors sit in Leading. JdK-style relative strength: 10-week smoothed sector/S&P, 10-week rate of change centered on 100, four-week momentum of that ratio. StockCharts sells the scatter. This desk names the room and stops. Rotation is a photograph, not a ticket.

Weak, momentum turning

Improving

Discretionary · Materials · Real estate · Utilities

Strong and getting stronger

Leading

Health care · Staples

Weak and getting weaker

Lagging

Communication · Financials · Industrials

Strong, momentum fading

Weakening

Technology · Energy

Growth × inflation rooms · Hedgeye cousin on FRED

Reflation

Growth impulse is industrial production year-over-year, three-month change. Inflation impulse is CPI the same way. Atlanta GDPNow 3.5%. Reflation is the current room. Photographs below are overlapping monthly medians after that room — not a ticket.

IP YoY

+2.3%

3m Δ 0.8 pt

CPI YoY

+3.7%

3m Δ 0.3 pt

GDPNow

3.5%

Atlanta Fed

Room

Reflation

impulse, not level

Growth up · inflation down

Goldilocks

n=90 months

S&P 3m
+3.5%
S&P 1y
+13.5%
TLT 1y
-0.9%
Gold 1y
+12.3%

Growth up · inflation up · now

Reflation

n=106 months

S&P 3m
+2.6%
S&P 1y
+13.1%
TLT 1y
-0.7%
Gold 1y
+4.3%

Growth down · inflation up

Stagflation

n=94 months

S&P 3m
+1.2%
S&P 1y
+7.5%
TLT 1y
+2.8%
Gold 1y
+7.5%

Growth down · inflation down

Deflation

n=114 months

S&P 3m
+3.8%
S&P 1y
+13.0%
TLT 1y
-1.0%
Gold 1y
+16.8%

Sentimentrader TCTM cousin · Allocate Smartly dual momentum

Mixed-on · 5 of 7

5 of 7 trend gates are on. Mixed-on. This is a Sentimentrader / Allocate Smartly cousin on public ETFs — a census, not a model you copy with size.

S&P vs 200-day

+3.6%

Allocate Smartly / PTJ cousin. A risk switch, not a religion.

S&P vs 10-month

3.2%

Meb Faber tactical. Monthly last versus a 10-month average.

Equal-weight vs 50-day

+3.0%

RSP participation. Narrow tape fails this while SPY still prints green.

Russell vs 50-day

-0.7%

Small-cap confirmation. Sentimentrader breadth cousin.

Junk vs 50-day

-0.7%

HYG is the credit fuse. Price, not OAS. A second clock.

Absolute momentum

+11.0% 1y

12-month S&P above zero. Dual-momentum first gate.

S&P vs EAFE, 12m

+2.5 pt

Gary Antonacci relative momentum. Home bias is the other photograph.

Meb Faber 10-month · Antonacci dual momentum · wealth paths

The light becomes a census

Meb Faber 10-month SMA and Antonacci dual momentum as wealth paths versus the S&P and 60/40, SPY / EFA / TLT / T-bills from 2002-08. Cash is FRED TB3MS / 12. 2009 and 2020 are the whips — sold the low. A light is a census, not a model you copy with size.

10-mo SMA CAGR

7.6%

in S&P

Dual mom CAGR

7.7%

in S&P

S&P CAGR

9.1%

24.3y

60/40 CAGR

5.8%

monthly rebalance

SMA 2009

+21.3%

S&P +23.5%

SMA 2020

+13.3%

S&P +16.2%

Dual 2009

+3.9%

46 switches

Dual 2020

-1.6%

37 SMA switches

SMA max DD

-22.1%

vs S&P drawdown

Dual max DD

-23.2%

cash is T-bills

S&P max DD

-52.2%

same window

Vanguard / JPM 60/40 cousin · 2022 scar · 36-month fuse

Sixty-forty is ballast, not a hedge

60/40 monthly rebalance, SPY and TLT from 2002-08. 2022 is the scar: stocks and duration both sold. A 60/40 is ballast, not a hedge. Past photographs are not a ticket. 36-month SPY/TLT correlation is the 2022 fuse — when it flipped positive, 60/40 stopped being ballast. CPI-deflated path is the other toggle.

60/40 CAGR

5.8%

24.3y

S&P CAGR

9.1%

same window

60/40 max DD

-31.3%

peak to trough

2022 60/40

-24.7%

S&P -19.5%

S&P max DD

-52.2%

same window

2022 S&P

-19.5%

calendar

2022 TLT

-32.8%

duration sold too

SPY/TLT 36m corr

+1.1

0.32

2022 peak 0.15

JPM Guide / Schwab missing-days cousin · Vanguard lump vs DCA

Stay invested is the expensive chart they sell

SPY total-price path from 1993-03-01. Missing the ten best sessions is how timing taxes a long tape. Lump sum beat a 12-month DCA in 76% of rolling years. Past photographs are not a ticket.

Stay invested

8.8%

33.7y CAGR

Miss 10 best

5.8%

-61.3%

Miss 20 best

3.4%

-82.1%

Miss 10 worst

12.7%

perfect timing cousin

Lump vs DCA

76%

median edge +5.2%

$10k stay

$170,735

from 1993

$10k miss 10

$66,025

best days skipped

Nov–Apr

+3.7%

best six months avg

May–Oct

+2.2%

sell-in-May cousin

JPM Guide best / worst rolling cousin

The range they print once a quarter

Every rolling 1 / 5 / 10-year window on SPY daily. Five- and ten-year are annualized. Now versus the best and the worst is the honest range — not a forecast.

1 year

+508.9%

now

Best
+533.1%
Worst
+100.8%

n=155

5 years

—

now

Best
—
Worst
—

n=0

10 years

—

now

Best
—
Worst
—

n=0

Sentimentrader / Bespoke seasonality cousin

Twelve months, one S&P

Average monthly total-price change on SPY since 1993. September is the scar. This is not a sell-in-May ticket. The presidential cycle still sits on the crash desk.

Jan

+0.8%

61% up · n=33

Feb

-0.0%

52% up · n=33

Mar

+0.6%

59% up · n=34

Apr

+2.0%

74% up · n=34

May

+1.2%

71% up · n=34

Jun

0.0%

53% up · n=34

Jul

+1.4%

65% up · n=34

Aug

+0.1%

65% up · n=34

Sep

-0.9%

50% up · n=34

Oct

+1.6%

62% up · n=34

Nov · now

+2.4%

79% up · n=34

Dec

+0.5%

64% up · n=33

After corrections · When it happens · Portfolio stress · Method

Yahoo daily 2y on SPDR sectors, style ETFs, MAGS, EFA, EEM, HYG, TLT, GLD, BIL, USO, UUP, BTC-USD. SPY max daily for missing-days, lump/DCA, rolling windows, the quilt’s US-large sleeve, 60/40, tactical NAV, and month seasonality. TLT / GLD max monthly for the quad and 60/40 duration/gold. IWM / EFA / EEM / HYG / VNQ max monthly for the quilt and dual-momentum NAV. FRED INDPRO, CPIAUCSL, GDPNOW, TB3MS. RSI Wilder 14. 52-week high is 252 sessions. Yahoo ^GSPC max/1mo is not used — that print downsamples to quarterly. CPI-deflated quilt and 60/40 use CPIAUCSL. Cousins: Bespoke Daily Sector Snapshot, Finviz map, Callan periodic table, Koyfin style box, Hedgeye quad, StockCharts RRG, Sentimentrader TCTM, Allocate Smartly dual momentum, Meb Faber 10-month, JPM Guide / Schwab missing best days, Vanguard lump vs DCA and 60/40. · tape date 12 Nov 2026 · COMPILED JUST NOW