# Core Forecast - 2026-07-12

**Version**: v1.0
**Generated**: 04:36
**Confidence Cone**: medium

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## 1. Situation

### Markets

• Interest Rates: → yields at WATCH upside with mean-reversion setup
• Financial: → AI leadership and selective momentum intact
• Commodity: → broad pressures contained outside ag
• Currency: → USD firm vs cyclically sensitive FX
• Crypto: → mild stabilization with AI narrative linkage
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### Quant

• Direction ratio at 67% bullish (+13pp weekly)
• Sigma intensity at 1.22 with 22% ALERT signals
• BULLISH_BIAS streak at 5 consecutive days
• Yield curve normal at +36bp
• Geopolitical risk 0.37 (stable)
• Dispersion index 1.69
• Direction ratio at 67% bullish (+13pp weekly) → sustained AI-linked equity resilience in low-panic regime
• Breadth momentum at -4 contracting → selective leadership persists; small-cap rotation caution
• Sigma intensity 1.22 (low conviction) → muted signals favor mean-reversion setups [n=1686]
• Dispersion index 1.69 moderate → limited cross-asset contagion outside selective ag pockets
• Signal distribution: 0% critical, 22% alert, 78% watch → WATCH momentum in AMD/IWM/SOXX and yields
• Yield curve normal with +36bp spread → stable disinflation path, no inversion stress
• Geo risk score 0.37 in stable regime → contained transmission to energy; de-escalation dominant

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## 2. Signal

| Asset | Price | Z-Score | Window | Direction |
|-------|-------|---------|--------|-----------|
| AMD | $557.89 | +2.22σ | 252d | up |
| ^TNX | $4.57 | +1.90σ | 252d | up |
| IWM | $295.99 | +1.83σ | 252d | up |
| ALB | $126.05 | -1.83σ | 60d | down |
| EURUSD=X | $1.14 | -1.82σ | 252d | down |
| SOXX | $581.34 | +1.76σ | 252d | up |
| ^VIX * | $15.03 | -1.75σ | 60d | down |
| TSM | $434.11 | +1.58σ | 252d | up |

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## 3. Opportunity

- **Primary**: ALB: long ALB on WATCH downside (68%)
- **Primary**: TNX: short yields / long bonds (65%)
- **Primary**: AMD: long AMD / SOXX (58%)
- **Primary**: EURUSD: fade extreme EUR strength (55%)
- **Secondary**: AI capex demand persistence: tech leadership and equity resilience (53%)
- **Secondary**: Contained geo transmission to energy: commodity stability and low-panic regime (63%)

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## 4. Probabilities & Metrics

| Entry | Current | 7d Slope | Decay HL | Cascade Depth |
|-------|---------|----------|----------|---------------|
| amd | 58% | N/A | TBD | 1 |
| CBOE 10 Year Treasur | 50% | N/A | TBD | 0 |
| russell2000 | 50% | N/A | TBD | 0 |
| lithium | 68% | N/A | TBD | 1 |
| eurusd | 50% | N/A | TBD | 0 |

**Performance Scorecard**:
- Backtest (1042d): 574/1292, 44%, +359.7%
- Recent (7d): 2/7, 29%, -5.0%

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**Sources**: FRED, yfinance, Market data
**Next Calibration**: Run sentinel scanner for breakouts; Monitor: Middle East proxy escalation disrupting Hormuz oil flows (GMT1-3 channel); Monitor: Russian strike on Ukrainian natgas transit ahead of winter; Track: ALB pricing; Track: TNX pricing
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## 5. Shadow Experiments (DS8)

| arch1 | 0.3161 | 0.3358 | (-0.0027) | 518 | accumulating |
| Architecture | Shadow Brier | Prod Brier | Delta | n | Status |
|-------------|-------------|-----------|-------|---|--------|
| arch2 | 0.3090 | 0.3358 | (-0.0058) | 464 | accumulating |
| arch3 | 0.2973 | 0.3358 | (-0.0221) | 464 | PROMOTABLE |