Market Conditions

Conditions

Market Conditions

Market Conditions — 2026-08-12

A frozen snapshot: each card records its own moment and is meant to read stale later. The strip of cards, in order, is the climate history.

Gauge Read Note
Indexes (7d) SPY +0.3% · QQQ +0.9% · IWM +1.0% · RSP +0.6% 30d: SPY +3.1% · QQQ +1.7% · IWM +3.1% · RSP +3.2%
Volatility VIX 14.55 (CALM) · 1d -4.8% Fire-sale window closed — the trigger is a ≥30% one-day spike
Rotation In: Government Compute, Copper, Alt Managers, Web Cloud, Cloud SAAS · Out: CPU Shortage Supply Chain, AI Power, Cultural Thesis, Memory, Supply Chain Traces 23 in / 20 out / 5 emerging of 69 tracked themes · ranked on trailing 30d strength vs SPY
Credit (7d) HYG +0.1% · LQD -0.6% · IEF -0.4% Orderly credit means the selling is positioning, not a credit event
Hard assets (7d) GLD +3.9% · USO +10.8% · COPX +1.8% Gold · oil · copper miners

Sources

  • market-pulse + rotation-map.json · data/state/vix-gate.json (all numbers code-computed and frozen at emit)
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