Miss autopsy #1: the 30-day movers we didn't own
Miss autopsy #1: the 30-day movers we didn't own
Question: which ≥30%/30d movers in our own covered universe did we neither hold nor claim with a book/bench thesis — and what trigger would have caught each at T−1? Verdict: assign-follow-up (4 follow-ups filed below)
First standing miss autopsy per .brief/operating-book.md (the
"obvious in retrospect" fix). Price receipts: all figures below are
code-computed from the pre-computed summaries bucket
(research/market-engine/data/summaries/*.json, data as of
2026-07-01 — last precompute; no fresh fetch run for this pass). Screen: 977 covered
symbols → 38 with change30d ≥ +30% and dollar volume ≥ $10M → 8 already
held or book/bench-claimed → 30 unclaimed misses. Holdings basis:
yawnxyz-active positions via the holdings CLI.
What we found — four themes, not thirty separate misses
1. The WFE / semicap-equipment layer is the structural miss (the real finding)
KLAC +39%, ICHR +60%, FORM +33%, MKSI +31%, COHU +30% — with AMAT +43%
(claimed via ai-power-delivery key_tickers) and ONTO +38%
(bench-claimed) moving with them. Seven fab-equipment names ≥30% in one
month is a cohort move, and it is the direct consequence of a thesis
we already operate: memory-supercycle says MU/Samsung/Hynix are
capacity-gated and racing to build fabs — WFE makers are who they pay.
The wfe-test-metrology watchlist existed (the sensor was built); no
thesis layer ever owned it (the batter was missing). This is the
textbook "derivable from what we held."
Trigger that would have caught it at T−1: WFE cohort breadth — ≥4
wfe-test-metrology names +15%/30d together fires a push.
Follow-up filed: WFE/semicap as a book layer or slot-4 candidate
(TASKS-PERSPECTIVES § operating book).
2. The biotech bench promotion trigger may be FIRING
LABU +57% (3× biotech ETF — a breadth proxy), TWST +53%, ABSI +69%,
KYMR +47%, RARE +44%, TXG +35%, PTGX +31%, plus MRNA +60%. The
biotech-capital-cycle bench perspective's registered promotion
trigger is: hot IPO prices well + XBI downtrend break + CRO
book-to-bill turning. The tape leg of that trigger looks active —
which is exactly what the bench system is FOR.
Follow-up filed: verify the trigger's three legs properly at the
next scan cycle (not from this stale-by-4-days snapshot) and push the
promotion decision to Jan if they confirm.
3. Cultural-thesis movers have no owner
HIMS +38% (5 watchlists incl. cultural-thesis, peptide-econ) and
BRBR +46% (cultural-thesis). The cultural-arbitrage paradigm — one of
the three research paradigms in THESIS.md — currently has no live
perspective. Sensor without batter, same shape as WFE.
Follow-up: noted as a bench-candidate lane; no row yet (one
new-thesis build at a time — WFE first, it's book-adjacent).
4. Quantum bench claim gap (bookkeeping, fixed now)
HQ +95% and ARQQ +78% — both in the focus watchlist AND the
quantum-computing watchlist — were invisible to the claim join
because the quantum perspective's key_tickers didn't list them.
Fixed in this pass: added HQ + ARQQ to quantum-computing
key_tickers with a log entry.
Correctly skipped (the screen agreeing with our rules)
ABVX +83% and APGE +67% are pre-revenue clinical lotteries — excluded by standing rule regardless of the move. AAL +30% (RSI 80) is an airline cyclical chase, not a 6–48mo trend-hold. DAVE +42% / ENVA +49% are momentum fintech with no structural story we hold. MRNA +60% is a recovery knife. These scoring as "misses we're fine with" is the system working — the autopsy's job is separating those from theme 1, which is not fine.
Verdict + reasoning
The 30 misses reduce to: one real structural gap (WFE — thesis we
hold, consequence we didn't own), one bench trigger possibly firing
(biotech), one unowned paradigm (cultural), one bookkeeping fix
(quantum claims), and a correctly-skipped tail. Follow-ups filed in
research/tasks/TASKS-PERSPECTIVES.md § The Operating Book. Next
autopsy runs with the weekly recap per the cadence template.
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