R32-D EOW synthesis (2026-05-29 EOW cycle)
R32-D EOW synthesis (2026-05-29 EOW cycle)
Question: Of the watch_for triggers the 2026-05-29 EOW full-scan perspective refresh surfaced, which convert to a decision (promote / combine / defer / kill / assign-follow-up), and does any clear the R32-E publish gate?
Verdict: Three decision-shaped findings → 1 kill, 1 defer, 1 assign-follow-up. Zero promote → R32-E closes gate-unmet.
What we're asking
R32-A2 produced a clean full-universe 2026-05-29 tape; the full-scan Phase 0 refreshed all 10 active perspectives against it and logged the watch_for triggers that fired. R32-D's job is to convert that raw trigger set into a bounded set of decisions (verbs), not to re-narrate the tape. Scope cap: 1-3 decision-shaped findings.
What we found
Three findings rose above noise; the rest stay as logged watch-items in their perspective log.md files.
1. oil-200-scenario — KILL (executed)
The $200 binary never fully fired. The one leg that fired in R12 (USO >$130, $149 on the 2026-05-18 tape) un-fired by 2026-05-29: USO $129.09 (-12.2% 30D, falling), VXX $24.14 (RSI 28, below the $25 re-arm), CF/NTR weak-down (cascade not transmitting). The R12 relevance_until extension to 2026-07-01 was explicitly conditioned on resolving "supply shock vs parent base case + Gulf premium" — that verification now resolves toward premium-now-deflating, not a $200 path. Residual war-shock tail is covered by parent us-energy-dominance watch-for #1 (USO <$110). Retired on resolved grounds rather than a bare June-1 calendar lapse.
→ **Executed:** moved to ACTIVE.json closed[] (closed_at: 2026-05-30, successor: us-energy-dominance), README status flipped, decision logged. Reopen: USO >$130 sustained 5+ days AND a fresh confirmed escalation catalyst.
2. memory-supercycle publish-gate fired — DEFER (no promote)
The standing operational publish-gate "cohort breaks green" fired: the full DRAM/NAND/HBM cohort ripped into EOW — MU +22.3% 7D (RSI 78, $971), SNDK +9.1% (RSI 72, $1,695), HY9H.F +25.5% 7D (RSI 76), STX/WDC green — the strike-window reversal the perspective was waiting on. But a fired publish-gate is a necessary, not sufficient, condition. The perspective's own read: this is now front-page consensus, late on the trade (MU +632% 1y, WSB-front-page) with the cohort uniformly RSI ≥70. There is no fresh, non-consensus edge to publish — promoting a "memory is tight" digest the week the cohort goes parabolic adds nothing the tape hasn't already priced. → Decision: DEFER publish. Hold the gate as cleared-but-unpublished; re-evaluate only if the cohort gives back the move and a re-entry thesis (not a chase) appears. Does not trigger R32-E.
3. ai-power-bottleneck PSIX structural break — ASSIGN-FOLLOW-UP
Inside an otherwise-running ai-power cohort (HUT +65% 30D, RIOT +57%, CORZ +34%, CLSK +46%; IPP leg stabilizing), PSIX is the lone structural break: -51% 3M, -43% 30D, RSI 37, strong-down. The distributed-power-gen / engine sub-position is the only key_ticker in a confirmed downtrend while its cohort melts up — that is either a broken sub-thesis or a washout worth a re-entry, and the tape alone can't say which. Needs a fundamental read (orders / guidance / why it de-rated), not a price read.
→ Decision: ASSIGN-FOLLOW-UP to TASKS-RESEARCH.md — PSIX fundamental verify; until resolved, treat the distributed-power-gen leg of ai-power-bottleneck as un-validated. (Secondary, lower-priority watch-items also logged in-perspective: WOLF +180% 3m substrate-share operational check; MRAAY RSI 87 MLCC-allocation overbought; GEV weak-down equipment-leg de-rate; war-ends EWY/EWT ATH gates triggered; optical-supercycle PLAB -34% 7D equipment-layer breakdown.)
Verdict + reasoning
1 kill / 1 defer / 1 assign-follow-up. No promote. The EOW tape is a broad melt-up in which most perspective triggers fired late and with the crowd — exactly the condition under which a publish gate clearing is least informative. The single clean resolution (oil-200 kill) removes a dead tail-watch; the single open question (PSIX) gets a fundamental follow-up; the loudest "win" (memory gate firing) is deliberately not published because it carries no edge. R32-E closes gate-unmet (no promote), consistent with R25-E/R26-E/R28-F/R31-E.
Sources
- Tape data (price/RSI/trend figures): desk pre-computed watchlist summaries as of the artifact date —
research/market-engine/data/summaries/*.json.
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