How to Measure Stop Risk on a Stock
The Stop Risk Score measures how much room a stock's own recent price action says a stop needs, built from six weighted realized-volatility inputs into a single score. On 2026-09-30 the average score across 4,634 scored stocks was 27.8, comfortably inside the…
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What Does an Overheating Economy Mean for Stocks?
Overheat is the Cycle Clock's late-cycle phase: growth peaking, policy tightening. The engine's own guidance for this phase is shorter holds and…
When to Avoid Trading a Stock Entirely
STRESSED is the Stop Risk Score's highest volatility band, any score of 75 or above, and it triggers the engine's AVOID call.…
What Does Low Realized Volatility Mean for Position Size?
CALM is the Stop Risk Score's lowest volatility band, any score below 35, and it clears a stock for the engine's full…
Cyclical vs Defensive Sectors Explained
The Macro Engine's sector rotation read splits the market into cyclical and defensive buckets, six sectors against three, and measures which side…
What Are the Phases of the Economic Cycle for Traders?
The Macro Engine's Cycle Clock sorts the business cycle into eight fixed phases, Goldilocks through Recovery, assigned by a decision tree rather…
How to Rank Sector Strength Against SPY
The Macro Engine's sector leadership score ranks each sector from 0 to 4 against SPY, one point for each of four independent…
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Six macro pillars, a stop risk score across the covered universe, and a sizing consequence attached to every state. Updated after each close.