Two sensors saturated in exactly the range where resolution matters, and the top
State band had no headroom. Calibrated with scripts/run_regime_monitor_calibration.py
over the 408 sessions ending 2026-07-24; the shipped code reproduces that run's
band shares exactly (78.9 / 13.0 / 4.7 / 3.4).
V1 read VIX 30, 50 and 82 as an identical 100 — the same defect v3 had just
removed from P3, left in place one sensor over. In the window it flattened five
distinct April-2025 prints (52.33, 46.98, 45.31, 40.72, 38.57) into one value.
Now an anchor table reaching full scale at 55, not at 2020's ~82: anchoring the
top at a once-in-a-generation print would make VIX 50 read only ~70. Pegged on
14 of 408 sessions before; none now.
_under_200 returned a bare 0/100, so P1 printed 100 the moment SMH and QQQ were
both under their average — and since the price pillar takes max(P1, P2, P3),
that pinned the pillar and stopped P3's ladder resolving for the whole of a
selloff. Now graded by depth below the 200-DMA, with a deliberate floor of 20 at
the crossing: the break is a genuine binary event, only its depth is graded.
Pegged on 46 of 408 sessions before; none now. A 2% break reads ~30, not 100.
max() was KEPT — the defect was the step function feeding it, not the vote, and
v3's "one capped vote for correlated reads" rationale still holds. P1 is the sole
price argmax on 17 of 408 sessions (4.2%), so the P1_SCORE_CAP fallback drafted
during design was measured as unnecessary and not shipped.
STATE_BANDS breaking 80 -> 65, and only that threshold. Credit returns 0.0 (not
None) when calm, so it holds its 20 points pinned at zero and price + breadth +
volatility at literal maximum summed to exactly 80.0 — v3's threshold to the
decimal, with nothing above it. The sensor is deliberately unchanged: a
calm-credit selloff genuinely is less stressed. What was stale is the band, fit
on v2 while credit's since-removed percentile leg still contributed. A
2022-style AI/tech drawdown with calm credit computes to 70.3 (no death cross) or
74.0 (with one); 70 would have left 0.33 points of headroom, reproducing the
defect. Chosen by scenario arithmetic, and the realized breaking share then lands
on 3.4% — the same as v3's, arrived at independently.
"v4" added to CATEGORICAL_FUNDAMENTAL_METHODOLOGIES in this same commit, which is
load-bearing: that set is checked against the STORED blob, so bumping without it
discards the collected observation on first write, leaving fetched_at null and
locked false — and update_regime_monitor then fires a paid LLM refresh on every
run, forever. Now guarded by a test parametrised over v2 and v3 stored blobs.
SENSOR_REVISION deliberately stays 2: a METHODOLOGY change already forces a full
reseed via _parse_snapshot, and bumping both would imply the reseed was
revision-driven.
QUADRANT_STATE_DIVIDER stays 50 because only breaking moved, so alert_service,
RegimeChart and the quadrant tests need no change. A new test enforces
divider == band boundary on both axes, which nothing did before.
Doc renamed to regime-monitor-v4.md with a tombstone at the old path (commit
messages cite it), the three open questions converted to resolved with the
reasoning that closed them, and indexed in docs/research/README.md for the first
time. The P2 limit is stated honestly: _death_cross pegs at a -5% MA gap, so a
deep selloff still reaches 100 via P2 — v4 repairs the shallow-to-moderate break,
not "the price pillar no longer pegs".
DEPLOY: the first run reseeds ~464 sessions. Expect one phantom quadrant alert
(the dedup key carries basket_hash, not methodology) and re-run the Event Study
manually — its cached report self-invalidates but does not self-regenerate.
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Follows 5ea0785, which renamed the user-visible labels. This finishes the pass
so code, docs and operator output use one vocabulary: README (pipeline list,
route table, FRED row), the methodology doc title, .env.example and config
comments, the snapshot model / event-study / service / test docstrings, the
scheduler section headers and morning-pipeline docstring, the TopBar status
text ("bullish regime" -> "bullish trend"), and the four "Regime monitor:" log
prefixes.
Deliberately NOT changed, because "market regime" is also a standard finance
term and most occurrences are not this job: the backtest caveat "~6 months is
roughly one market regime" in backtest_service, README, BacktestPanel and every
generated reports/*.json; "a regime shift" in TrackRecordPanel; and the
capacity-bracket findings doc. Renaming those would have made the text wrong.
Also unchanged, being persisted or externally linked rather than wording: the
regime_monitor / market_regime job ids, the regime_quadrant_enabled setting key,
the /regime route, METHODOLOGY and the snapshot fields, the service/test module
filenames, and docs/research/regime-monitor-v3.md's path (referenced from commit
messages). The doc now carries a one-line note recording the old name and why
those identifiers still use it.
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Two review findings on 46ace50.
[P1] Raising HY_OAS_WINDOW_DAYS to 700 only reached newly computed rows. A
routine run recomputes the latest trading date alone, and `rebuilding` was keyed
on "no v3 snapshot exists at all", which is false once the cutover has run --
so every row already written kept the credit gap the wider window exists to
close, indefinitely.
Adds SENSOR_REVISION: stamped into each snapshot, absent on pre-marker rows
(read as 1), and a stored revision below the current one triggers exactly one
reseed. Deliberately not METHODOLOGY, which would partition the history API and
discard the cached event study -- neither warranted, since the study recomputes
its Warning series from source rather than reading snapshots and so cannot be
staled by a reseed.
The reseed is bounded by REBUILD_LOOKBACK_DAYS in calendar days rather than a
session count, because the binding constraint is the OAS fetch: each replayed
row needs W3's 20-business-day lookback inside HY_OAS_WINDOW_DAYS. Replaying by
session count would have left the oldest stored rows unrepaired -- the exact
rows the fix targets. At 672 days the replay covers ~464 sessions, W3's oldest
requirement lands on the first fetched OAS day, and the ~400-session series the
cutover wrote is fully covered. A test asserts that relationship so the two
constants cannot drift back into recreating the gap.
[P2] With nothing ever collected, current_observation returned available=true
and the default placeholders -- "unknown" for every hyperscaler, "mixed" for the
reaction -- so the card announced a reading that never happened. Those are the
absence of an observation, not an observation of absence. Gated on `observed`
(non-null fetched_at, the one field every path writing real content stamps),
which blanks the content and drives a proper empty state naming where an admin
collects one. This was a regression from 46ace50; fundamental_overlay never had
it, since no observation means no effective date means pending.
Also renames the leftover v2 identifiers in the touched paths
(rewrite_existing_v2, latest_v2).
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The page had twelve stacked blocks, several of them different views of the
same numbers. The quadrant plot and the score-history chart drew the same two
series from the same query key, which read as two datasets; they are now one
card with a Time | Path toggle. The two pillar disclosures become one grouped
table, and three prose blocks (data quality, basket, coverage) become one
provenance chip strip. Page text is now limited to what changes how the reader
interprets today's number; the rest moved to the methodology doc.
Removes three stale-threshold bugs of one class. The quadrant fell back to v2's
60/60 dividers when quadrant_config was absent -- the real values are 50/40 and
they feed alert_service, so the chart could disagree with what actually fires.
The gauge fell back to v2's 30/60/80 band ticks, and drew a divider line that
always landed on its own "elevated" tick. The time series' reference lines were
at 30/60/80, which correspond to nothing in v3; they are now per-axis dashed
lines read from the same quadrant_config. Rendering also surfaced a live
clipping bug inherited from the old chart: margin.left -18 against YAxis
width 28 left ~10px for a 3-digit label, so every Y tick was cut off.
HY_OAS_WINDOW_DAYS was 400 *calendar* days while a rebuild replays
REBUILD_SESSIONS = 400 *trading* sessions (~579 calendar days), so the oldest
~180 days of any rebuild got no OAS at all and both credit sensors returned
None. State then lands at 80% coverage and Warning at exactly MIN_COVERAGE, so
both still publish bands -- a series that looks homogeneous while its oldest
rows were scored without credit. Widened to 700. This needs no methodology
bump: C1 reads [-1] and W3 reads [-21], both from the end, so widening only
prepends and every live score is bit-identical. Sequenced deliberately, since
acting on the open findings below bumps METHODOLOGY and fires the rebuild.
A just-collected fundamental observation was hidden until its effective date --
one day, three over a weekend -- because the live reading called the
point-in-time function, so refreshing appeared to do nothing. That was the
opposite of what the doc claimed. fundamental_overlay stays the gated record
(it runs for every replayed date during a rebuild); current_observation is the
live reading and reports the effective date instead of blanking the content.
Nothing in the overlay is scored, so showing it early cannot reach a published
number.
Documents four calculation findings. Three are not implemented, since each
changes a published score and so requires a v4 cut: State's top band is a
credit-event band (credit returns 0.0 rather than None below the 3.5 anchor, so
it is pinned at zero at weight 20 -- with everything else pegged State computes
to exactly 80.0, the breaking threshold); V1 saturates at VIX 30; and the
deliberate max(P1,P2,P3) defeats P3's anchoring because P1 is binary.
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The LLM-sourced capex/earnings observations carried 12+8 of 100 Warning points,
so both pegged at 100 produced a Warning of 20.0 -- below the event study's 25.3
alarm threshold and still inside the "stable" band. The reading was
arithmetically incapable of changing anything on screen, which is why refreshing
it appeared to do nothing. They are now a qualitative overlay reported beside
the scores rather than diluted into them.
Calibrated against the 408 v2 sessions to 2026-07-24, reproduced offline from
Alpaca + FRED; the harness matched the stored prod distribution exactly before
any parameter was changed.
State:
- P3 used dd_pct * 5, reaching 100 at a 20% drawdown -- the 90th percentile of
the observed distribution -- so 39/408 sessions sat at exactly 100 with no
resolution left during the part of a selloff that matters most. Replaced with
anchored breakpoints keeping headroom past the observed 36% maximum, blended
2:1 like P1/P2 instead of max(). P3's realized share of State falls from 65%
to 40%, matching its nominal weight.
- Credit level is now anchors-only. ICE capped FRED's BAMLH0A0HYM2 at a rolling
3-year window in April 2026, silently turning the 10-year percentile leg into
a 3-year one that scored 20 points of stress at an OAS of 3.5 -- the level its
own anchors call "mild". The anchors already encode the long-run distribution.
Warning:
- Added HY OAS 20-session widening (25%). The level is pinned at zero below the
3.5 anchor; its rate of change is not.
- Divergence tapers to a 0.35 floor instead of a hard price_ret >= 0 gate, which
zeroed the sensor through every decline: on 2026-07-24 the basket shed 10
points of participation in 20 sessions and Warning printed exactly 0.
- The event study and the live monitor now share one sensor definition, so they
cannot silently drift apart.
Bands are per axis (State 20/50/80, Warning 20/40/60) with quadrant dividers at
50/40; v2 Warning never exceeded 64.9 against a shared 60, leaving that half of
the quadrant unreachable. Realized shares: State 73/15/8/3%, Warning 69/20/8/3%.
Snapshots now record credit_history_days and vix_history_days -- the percentile
defect went unnoticed for months because nothing asserted the window the code
claimed.
Cutover: the first run rebuilds 400 sessions automatically; the Event Study job
must be re-run, as its cached report self-invalidates on the methodology check.
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Plots the index, early-warning, and combined scores over time beneath the live
gauges, with a 1M/3M/6M/All range toggle and band reference lines — so the trend
and any divergence between the scores is visible, not just today's snapshot.
- Backend: GET /regime/history + get_regime_history (the three scores per
snapshot date from regime_snapshots).
- Frontend: recharts line chart, lazy-loaded so recharts ships in its own
regime-tab chunk instead of nearly doubling the main bundle.
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The early-warning score showed n/a because it required an exact date match
between the live benchmark (Alpaca, may have today's bar) and the stored
universe breadth (DB, often a day behind), which blanked the newest snapshot —
the one the UI displays.
- Look up the divergence as-of the snapshot date (newest value within a 7-day
lag) instead of requiring an exact match.
- Backfill early_warning + combined onto recent existing snapshots (the index
history predates this signal) so the 7/30-day trends populate on the first run
rather than only filling in over the coming weeks.
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The event study showed the breadth-divergence signal genuinely leads (warned
before 7/11 drawdowns, ~6 weeks median, where the coincident baseline almost
never did). Surface it live to observe before deciding how to embed it — kept
separate from the index, not folded into its weights.
- regime_monitor daily job now computes breadth-divergence live and attaches a
separate early_warning score plus a combined blend (weighted mean, default
0.6/0.4, configurable via combined_weights) to each snapshot, including the
backfill so the 7/30-day trends populate immediately. Stored in breakdown_json
— no schema change. Best-effort: a breadth failure can't break the index.
- get_regime_monitor returns the index, early_warning, and combined scores each
with 7/30-day deltas.
- Regime tab shows three gauges (generalized ScoreGauge): coincident index,
early warning, and a compact combined blend. Stale snapshots render "—".
Note: the daily regime job now also does a universe-wide breadth scan.
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A new /regime tab scoring how far the AI/Tech bull regime has deteriorated
toward a re-rating as a single 0-100 index with per-signal breakdown and a
7/30-day trend. Intentionally decoupled: nothing reads its output to gate or
score trades — the daily-pipeline membership is scheduling only.
- regime_monitor_service: price sub-scores (P1-P6 via Alpaca, like
market_regime), VIX + HY credit spreads via a small FRED helper, weighted
aggregation over available signals (missing source -> n/a, dropped from the
denominator), one snapshot row/day, and a ~90-day history backfill by
replaying the already-fetched series as-of each past day.
- F1/F3 fundamentals proposed by the configured grounded LLM (reuses
sentiment_provider_service config resolution), with a manual override + lock.
- regime_snapshots table (migration 011); endpoints on the existing market
router; admin-editable weights/threshold; standalone /regime page.
Data needs: prices via Alpaca, VIX/credit via FRED (optional key — signals show
n/a without it). No LLM needed for history.
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