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Technical Overview

VX

VX

Bottom-line readHIGH confidence · 59 active cells

BULL

10.0/10 · Most bullish reading since May 2015

Validated technical signals are pointing bullish, at an extreme level versus this market’s own history.

Flipped from LEAN BULL to BULL on 2026-10-30 — 5 trading days in current read.

Latest bar: 2026-11-05

The read at three time scales

The same tape, read on three different clocks. Daily is the fast-moving tactical read, Weekly is the slower structural read, and Confluence only speaks when both the daily and weekly reads agree with each other.

Daily

Fast-moving tactical read

BULL

10.0/10

43 of 70 signals active

Weekly

Slower structural read

BULL

9.3/10

11 of 11 signals active

Confluence

Daily and weekly agree

NEUTRAL

5.5/10

5 of 10 signals active

What each kind of signal is saying

Only showing categories with signals active right now. When trend signals and momentum signals disagree, that tension is the story.

Trend

Trend

NEUTRAL · 2/3 active

OI Ma Regime — oi ma expansion trend long

Mean reversion

Mean reversion

LEAN BULL · 2/2 active

Mr Ma Anchor Stretch (200) — extreme

Breakout

Breakout & range

BULL · 3/4 active

Piv Prior Hl — breakout (inverse)

Levels

BULL · 4/4 active

Auction Tpo Va — tpo vah breakout (inverse)

Volatility

Return-distribution shape

LEAN BEAR · 2/2 active

Vol Semivar — downside exhaustion

Volatility

BULL · 6/11 active

Stp Atrtrail — long hit (inverse)

Cycle

Cycle analysis

BULL · 2/2 active

Ehlers Cyber-Cycle — regime (inverse)

Regime

Information theory

BULL · 3/4 active

Shannon entropy — hi complexity

Regime detection

BULL · 7/7 active

HMM Fwd 2State — hmm fwd bull (inverse)

Structure

Breadth

BULL · 6/6 active

RS Mansfield — momentum (inverse)

Microstructure

BULL · 3/10 active

Amihud illiquidity — illiq lo (inverse)

Volume

BULL · 2/4 active

Vol Spike (20) — hi regime (inverse)

Patterns

Composite indicators

BULL · 7/9 active

Pring Special K — momentum persist (inverse)

Cross-asset relative strength

BEAR · 1/1 active

Cot Commercial Net — cot comm extreme short bull

Strongest signals right now

The ten most influential technical signals currently active. Each has been validated against years of history — the h60 return column is the average 60-day move that historically followed the signal, and hit is how often it was in the right direction.

Dir Scale Type Signal Edge Recent fires h60 return Hit rate Sample
BULL Weekly Regime detection Vol regime (2-state HMM) Direct 4 +6.63% 60% 317
BULL Weekly Cycle analysis Ehlers Sine-Wave Direct 4 +5.43% 54% 929
NEUTRAL Weekly Volume Ts Oistruct Direct 4 -0.33% 50% 413
BEAR Weekly Breadth RS Mansfield Inverse 3 +16.12% 63% 369
BULL Weekly Volatility Stp Atrtrail Inverse 3 +15.47% 67% 589
BEAR Weekly Breadth RS Dollar Composite Inverse 2 +15.81% 63% 319
BEAR Weekly Information theory Shannon entropy Direct 2 +9.27% 60% 344
BULL Weekly Trend strength Efficiency ratio (30) Direct 2 +6.84% 56% 871
BULL Weekly Trend OI Ma Regime Direct 1 +16.32% 66% 383

How the read has shifted (last 60 trading days)

Each bar is one trading day. Bars above the zero line are bullish; bars below are bearish. Height shows how strong the read was.

Period range-0.2 to +30.2
+500−50
08-1408-2809-1109-2510-0910-2311-05
Latest+30.2BULLas of 2026-11-05

How the verdict is built

The verdict aggregates every classical technical signal we track on this market — momentum, trend, volatility, cycle, breadth, and so on — into a single read. Each signal has been validated out-of-sample on this market’s history (currently 91 signals pass the bar for VX). Four factors determine how much each signal contributes.

  1. Edge strength. How large and reliable is the historical edge? A signal with a 70% hit rate and a 6% average 60-day follow-through contributes more than one with a 54% hit rate and a 2% follow-through.
  2. Recency. A signal that fired this week counts more than one that fired three months ago. Fast daily signals fade out over about six weeks; slower weekly signals stay relevant for about six months.
  3. Confirmation. After a signal fires, we watch the market. If price moves the way the signal predicted (vol-adjusted), the signal’s contribution is amplified. If the market moves the other way, the contribution fades toward zero.
  4. Market-adaptive ranking. The final reading is ranked against this market’s own history over the past ~6 years. A bearish bias that would barely register on crude oil could be an extreme reading on the S&P — percentile ranking handles this automatically, so verdicts are comparable across markets.

Confidence tier

How many independent signals are currently driving the verdict: HIGH (15+ active) · MODERATE (5–14) · LOW (fewer than 5). A high-confidence read is backed by many independent signals pointing the same way; a low-confidence read could be a handful of signals amplified by a lucky move.

What this is not

  • Not a trade recommendation. No transaction cost, slippage, or position-sizing model is applied here.
  • Not a backtest of the overall verdict. The individual signals are validated out-of-sample, but the way they’re combined into one number is a consensus device, not itself a trading system.
  • Not treating correlated signals as independent. Several momentum indicators pointing the same way count as separate votes here.

Refreshed nightly. Last update: 2026-11-07T23:02:01+00:00.