The Warning study measured a fitted percentile crossing that nothing consumes.
What reaches Telegram is a quadrant change: fixed 50/40 dividers, hysteresis,
two-session confirmation, 3-day cooldown. Those thresholds are constants, not
fits, so there is no training set to protect and all 11 detected corrections are
evaluable instead of the 4 that fell in a holdout.
Replaying it: 1/10 corrections, 0.9 false alarms/year. Random alarms at the same
firing rate match or beat that in 65% of draws. The panel now carries ablations
(does the quadrant machinery earn its place?), external baselines (does the score
earn its complexity?), and that null, because a bare "2 of 4" was unreadable in
either direction. Nothing in the alert path was retuned on the strength of it.
Fundamentals become a third channel rather than a term in either score. v3 cut
them arguing 12+8 of 100 points "could not change any published conclusion" --
true only when every technical sensor reads zero; weighted they moved the bar for
the 40 divider from 40 to 25. But no fusion weight is measurable either: with ~10
events and no fundamental history, any weight is a policy preference presented as
a measurement. So the read is a categorical state (supportive/neutral/adverse/
unknown) with an evidence grade, derived by fixed rules from stored facts, read
by confluence. The LLM extracts and explains; it does not score.
Absence stays absence throughout. `unknown` is unreachable by averaging, a stale
or empty observation may display but never confirm, extraction failures map to
`unknown` rather than `mixed`, and the study rows are coverage-matched and marked
not-measurable until enough corrections are covered -- otherwise a fortnight of
observations renders as 0/10 and reads as a failed test.
Observations become a real time series (migration 033); they lived in a single
overwritten settings slot, so no history existed to replay. Pre-rename snapshots
are adapted rather than discarded. METHODOLOGY stays v4 -- no score changed --
so no reseed; STUDY_SCHEMA moves to 3 and discards the cached report.
Post-deploy: re-run Event Study from Admin -> Jobs. The panel reads "not run yet"
until then.
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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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Fires once when the regime monitor shifts quadrant (regime index x early
warning), so you don't have to watch the tab. Two guards against spam:
- Hysteresis: each axis only flips once the value crosses its divider by a
margin, so a point parked on a boundary keeps its quadrant instead of
flip-flopping day to day.
- Cooldown: a genuine change stays quiet for a few days after the last alert.
Seeds the baseline silently on first run; reuses the existing Telegram dispatch
+ AlertLog. New per-trigger toggle in Admin → Alerts (on by default).
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