Market Conditions
Conditions
Market Conditions
Market Conditions — 2026-08-18
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 -0.4% · QQQ -0.1% · IWM -0.3% · RSP -0.4% | 30d: SPY +3.3% · QQQ +3.2% · IWM +2.1% · RSP +3.0% |
| Volatility | VIX 15.84 (CALM) · 1d +4.3% | Fire-sale window closed — the trigger is a ≥30% one-day spike |
| Rotation | In: Government Compute, Web Cloud, Copper, Cloud SAAS, Space (+23 more) · Out: Cultural Thesis, Grid Buildout, AI Power, Airlines, EV Clean Energy (+15 more) | 28 in / 20 out / 0 emerging of 70 tracked themes · ranked on trailing 30d strength vs SPY |
| Credit (7d) | HYG +0.1% · LQD -0.1% · IEF +0.1% | Orderly credit means the selling is positioning, not a credit event |
| Hard assets (7d) | GLD -0.6% · USO +2.4% · COPX -3.4% | 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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