# Core Forecast - 2026-07-06

**Version**: v1.0
**Generated**: 04:35
**Confidence Cone**: medium

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## 1. Situation

### Markets

• Interest Rates: → mild long-end pressure likely to mean-revert lower
• Financial: → at statistical extremes, breadth expansion likely to revert
• Commodity: → mixed; ag momentum vs energy weakness, industrial drag
• Currency: → USD at extremes vs EUR, mean-reversion setup in developed FX
• Crypto: → mild downside bias with low vol transmission from equities, no clear sigma
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### Quant

• Direction ratio at 71% bullish (+38pp weekly)
• Sigma intensity at 1.29 with 28% ALERT signals
• BULLISH_BIAS streak at 1 consecutive days
• Yield curve normal at +82bp
• Geopolitical risk 0.38 (stable)
• Dispersion index 0.48
• Direction ratio 71% bullish (+38pp weekly) → low-conviction regime with mean-reversion setups dominant for 2σ+ moves [n=1686]
• Breadth momentum -7 contracting → favors rotation away from alert extremes in small caps despite BULLISH_BIAS streak of 1 day
• Sigma intensity 1.29 (low conviction), 0% critical/29% alert/71% watch → base rate 77% mean reversion within 6d for 2σ+ [n=1686]
• Dispersion index 1.48 (low dispersion) → shallow coordinated moves limit cascade depth per GMT3
• Yield curve normal with 82bp spread → stable policy path, no inversion; front-end anchored
• Geo risk score 0.38 in stable regime → transmission coefficient low (GMT1), confined to selective energy/safe-haven flows
• VIX 16.36 (-7.3% 5d), MOVE 65.40 (-2.1% 5d) → subdued vol supports tight cone but vulnerable to GMT4 de-escalation branches

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## 2. Signal

| Asset | Price | Z-Score | Window | Direction |
|-------|-------|---------|--------|-----------|
| IHI * | $51.88 | +2.46σ | 30d | up |
| IJR * | $146.48 | +2.20σ | 252d | up |
| IWM | $297.58 | +2.06σ | 252d | up |
| AMD | $517.82 | +2.06σ | 252d | up |
| EURUSD=X | $1.14 | -1.91σ | 252d | down |
| ALB | $135.56 | -1.87σ | 60d | down |
| SOXX | $566.32 | +1.73σ | 252d | up |
| TSM | $434.16 | +1.69σ | 252d | up |
| ^TNX | $4.49 | +1.51σ | 252d | up |

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## 3. Opportunity

- **Primary**: IWM at +2.06σ vs AI proxies: Short relative IWM strength into breadth contraction (72%)
- **Primary**: EURUSD at -1.91σ: Long EURUSD on mean-reversion setup (64%)
- **Primary**: 10Y yields +1.51σ: Position for lower long-end yields if no NFP beat (62%)
- **Primary**: Industrial commodities (crude/copper): Short industrial basket into any China demand weakness (59%)
- **Secondary**: Equity breadth expansion (small caps/financials/healthcare): supports risk-on but capped by 77% mean-reversion base rate at 2σ+ (47%)
- **Secondary**: IWM outperformance vs AI proxies (NVDA/AMD concentration): reflects rotation; likely to revert per alert sigma (54%)

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## 4. Probabilities & Metrics

| Entry | Current | 7d Slope | Decay HL | Cascade Depth |
|-------|---------|----------|----------|---------------|
| iShares US Medical D | 50% | N/A | TBD | 0 |
| iShares Core S&P Sma | 50% | N/A | TBD | 0 |
| russell2000 | 63% | N/A | TBD | 2 |
| amd | 54% | N/A | TBD | 1 |
| eurusd | 50% | N/A | TBD | 0 |

**Performance Scorecard**:
- Backtest (1042d): 574/1292, 44%, +359.7%
- Recent (7d): 0/3, 0%, -16.9%

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**Sources**: FRED, yfinance, Market data
**Next Calibration**: Run sentinel scanner for breakouts; Monitor: Middle East escalation (Iran proxies/Hormuz) transmitting to oil spike and risk-off; Monitor: De-escalation signals across Ukraine/Middle East hotspots reversing commodity flows; Track: IWM at +2.06σ vs AI proxies pricing; Track: EURUSD at -1.91σ pricing
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## 5. Shadow Experiments (DS8)

| arch1 | 0.3141 | 0.3359 | (-0.0041) | 482 | accumulating |
| Architecture | Shadow Brier | Prod Brier | Delta | n | Status |
|-------------|-------------|-----------|-------|---|--------|
| arch2 | 0.3064 | 0.3359 | (-0.0075) | 428 | accumulating |
| arch3 | 0.2947 | 0.3359 | (-0.0241) | 428 | PROMOTABLE |