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Trading ideas, the MA Stretch Lab & thematic research · 47 pieces · Updated August 31, 2026 · 6:30 PM ET
The standalone home for Alpha Query's quantitative research, in three pillars — Trading Ideas (spread & event trades, each with a live tracker and a scaled-exit bracket), the MA Stretch Lab (the flagship interactive tool), and Thematic Research (catalyst-driven theses). Every piece states its edge, its sample, and its caveats plainly.
Portfolio
Production is where committed capital lives; the Model Book is the funnel of signals and modeling into it
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🟢 Production — the live book
LIVEREAL CAPITAL
Where we make our living. Only trades committed to with real capital appear here — the exact live-mark + Take-It take/cut card flow, with a bold money-book header (positions, avg P&L, committed exposure). Everything else on the platform is modeling, signals, or waiting to go live. Promote a trade with python promote.py <id>.
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💵 Production P&L — the equity curve
$ P&LDAILY
The live money book's cumulative dollar P&L, marked every build off a $500k capital base and running from each position's entry. Per-position contribution, best/worst day, max drawdown. Options are proxied off the underlying (flagged); closed positions fold into realized as they exit.
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◆ First Principles — the TEF thesis
THESISTEF
Naming is not understanding. The intellectual-honesty core beneath the whole model, through Feynman's lens — you can name why a stock moved ('momentum', 'mean reversion') and still know nothing about whether it repeats. Real edge means saying why from the mechanism up and naming what would break it. Includes the free BBC Feynman film.
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◎ The Board — Extremes Command
COMMANDSTORM · TEF
One landing page that unions every extreme reading the scanners emit — Trigger Portal, Large Movers, High/Low Breaks and 65d Touch — de-duped to one line per instrument (rewarding multi-scanner confluence), scored by STORM, gated by the TEF thesis, and sorted into buckets. Bucket 1 = high-conviction, thesis-cleared; momentum earns a seat only when its own study clears win ≥60% & n ≥8 (the Soybean rule).
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🎯 STORM 50 — Daily Rigor-Ranked Ideas
COMMANDSTORM RIGOR
The 50 best ideas across every research feed each close, each graded on the full STORM rigor — Setup (multi-scanner confluence), Timing (momentum aligned & not over-extended vs the 50-day), Odds (forward win-rate & sample), Risk (reward-to-risk from typical 21-day adverse excursion), Magnitude (expected move vs the name's own vol) — ranked by a composite STORM score and tagged PASS / CONDITIONAL / CUT so you see exactly where the edge thins.
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🟠 Copper — Record Close Under Intact Resistance
EVENT STUDYBACKS WATCH
An event study re-derived on our own data (HG=F weekly, 2000–present) behind the copper WATCH: every record weekly close whose week-high stayed below the prior record intraday high, and the forward 1–26 week path. Confirms the deck's direction — a 2–8 week drawdown (as deep as −24%) before a 26-week resolution — but shows the modern tariff-era cohort resolving barely above flat, arguing for small size and a tail hedge.
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📋 Model Book
MODELAUTO-MARKED
The modeling & on-deck layer — every published trade dossier converted into a tracked position and re-marked against price each build: entry, direction-adjusted P&L, sessions-in-trade, targets, stops, time-stops, invalidation, and each trade's Take-It scaled-exit ladder. These are signals running, waiting, or being evaluated; commit capital to one and promote it to Production.
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📈 Live Portfolio
LIVEEXEC LOG
Every open position marked to the latest price, with the size remaining after any scaled exits, the next armed Take-It rung to take profit into, and each trade's own hard stop — plus a signal-based execution log that timestamps every 20/30/30/20 take-profit or loss rung as a daily close crosses its level. The realized record of the mechanical exit plan.
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🎯 STORM Book
MODEL BOOKRE-RANKS
The weighted top-10 model portfolio — every Trading-Ideas signal scored by outcome potential (its own 21-day edge × sample × win-conviction, boosted on multi-scanner confluence), the best 10 conviction-weighted into a book with entries, Take-It ladders and stops. Re-ranks each build.
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🎯 STORM Live Book
EXECUTION125K · 2×
A dedicated execution book for the STORM top-10 — $125,000 account, 2× margin ($250,000 buying power), each name pre-sized to its STORM weight. Full fills ledger, execution timeline and Live/Library archive, independent of the main blotter.
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🪜 Take-It Ladders
STRATEGY
The same scaled-exit strategy applied to every live position: enter 100%, scale out 20/30/30/20 into strength at rising profit deviations, with a mirror loss-taker at the same distances on the downside — capped by each dossier's hard stop. Levels recompute from the locked entry each build.
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📒 Blotter
EDITABLESAVES LOCALLY
Your working positions spreadsheet — log the fills you actually got (price paid, sold, size) and it computes cost, proceeds and P&L $/% (sign-adjusted for shorts), Open vs Closed. Editable, saves in your browser, seeded with the live-book trades, with CSV import/export.
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Trading Ideas
Actionable spread & event trades — each with a live trade tracker and a scaled-exit (Take-It) bracket
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🧭 Sector Compass
LIVESECTORS
The MA-stretch lens on the advisor's toolkit — the 11 GICS sectors, key sub-sectors, factor/style tilts and fixed income. Each ETF's distance from its 21/65/200-day trend, its 2023-window stretch percentile, and the forward-return read from that location, distilled into a tilt verdict (add / trim / trending). The diversification companion to the concentration picture.
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⚡ Trigger Portal
LIVESCANNER
A standardized signal scanner across every product & ratio spread — 2σ shocks, MA-distance Z-extremes, decile extremes, and 21-day crosses — each with its own historical forward-return edge, an edge-ranked score, and a New-today filter, one click from the deep research.
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📊 Large Movers
LIVESCANNER
A multi-horizon, volatility-adjusted move scanner — any product or spread ≥2σ over 1/2/3/5/10/15 sessions (21-day vol × √h), shown as a z-score matrix so you read the shape (acute spike vs sustained thrust), each with the forward-return edge after the same move.
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🕯 Range-Close Reversals
LIVESCANNER
Where every top-250 stock & top-75 ETF closed inside its daily range — off-high / up-from-low as a fraction of range, plus % from the low/high in return space — surfacing intraday exhaustion reversals (🔨 hammers & ⭐ shooting stars). Click any name for a forward-return analog study from its own history.
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🔬 SMH Equal-Weight
LIVETHEMATIC
A synthetic equal-weight index of SMH's 25 semiconductor holdings vs cap-weighted SMH — the concentration premium (mega-cap vs the average semi), a full constituent scorecard with relative strength, and basket breadth. SMHEW is a first-class symbol: usable in the Spread Lab & MA-Query like an ETF.
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🚀 High/Low Breaks
LIVESCANNER
Every product & ratio spread that broke to a new 21-day or 500-day high/low today on a session move of at least ±3% — momentum breakouts (🚀 500-day = ~2-year highs) and breakdowns (💥 500-day lows) — each with that instrument's own forward-return edge after prior same-type breaks. Click for the forward-return paths; the trade takes its direction from the edge (some breakouts historically fade).
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🎯 65-Day Touch & Go
LIVESCANNER
Strong names (65d rising & above the 200d) that just pulled back to their 65-day MA — a defended touch, or a 1-2 day break & reclaim — each with the forward-return edge after prior touch-and-go setups. Click for the forward-return paths.
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🔀 Weekly Outside-Reversal Scanner
LIVESCANNER
Every research name whose latest weekly bar engulfs the prior week's range (higher high + lower low) and closes decisively — bullish above / bearish below the prior close. Each carries its own forward-return edge over the next 1–20 sessions after prior occurrences, with the trade taken from the edge (these are often bought even when they look bearish). Click for the paths + the live occurrence.
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🔃 Reversal & Trend — Short-Covering vs Exhaustion
LIVESCANNER
A ≥4% intraday reversal (traded down ≥2%, closed up ≥2% — or the mirror) on day or week bars, read through the 200-day trend: a bullish reversal in a downtrend is short-covering, a bearish reversal in an uptrend is exhaustion. The forward-return edge is conditioned on the same direction AND trend, so the read is tested, not assumed — a name whose exhaustion weeks historically bounced reads ▲ Long. Click for the trend-conditioned forward-return paths.
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🔄 Daily Outside-Reversal → 65-Day Extreme
LIVESCANNER
Every research name whose latest daily bar is an outside reversal (engulfs the prior day's range) that also closes at a fresh 65-day high (bullish) or 65-day low (bearish) — a violent reversal bar plus a ~3-month breakout. Each carries its own forward-return edge over the next 1–20 sessions after prior identical signals, with the trade taken from the edge (some breakouts exhaust). Click for the forward-return paths + the live occurrence.
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🌊 RVX Duration Edge
LIVECOUNTDOWN
A live low-volatility regime tracker: how many consecutive days the Russell 2000 vol index (RVX) has held below 20, counting down to the day-11 'crystallized signal' for small-cap (IWM) longs. Includes the regime matrix and an honest validation of the >92% headline (it's a survivorship-conditioned over-the-streak number; the tradeable forward edge is more muted).
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🌾 Soybean Summer-Thrust STORM
SIGNAL ACTIVESTORM
A STORM decision note on the July 2026 soybean rally: a ≥4% 3-day thrust reclaiming the 65-day MA out of a prolonged summer range, below the 200-day high. Every prior analog, the front-loaded forward-return distribution with its MFE/MAE profile, and a defined-risk execute verdict — now tracked in the live book.
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🟣 PLTR Washout-Reversal
LIVESIGNAL STUDY
When PLTR is >30% below its 200-day high and prints a −2/+2 reversal day (down ≥2% intraday, closed up ≥2%) — a short-covering setup. Every occurrence since the 2020 IPO, the forward-return distribution, and the honest regime split: dead-cat bounces in the 2021–22 bear vs the +80–99% launches at the 2023/2025 washout bottoms. The near-term pop is real and tradeable; past ~3 weeks it fades. Live signal auto-updates.
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🏝 IWD Island-Top Analog
SIGNAL STUDYLIVE
A quantitative signal study: IWD prints a new 200-day high, closes weak (bottom of range), and confirms with a ≥1% down day — the island-top analog. Every one of the 10 events since 2000, the forward-return distribution, and the honest read (a weak, fat-left-tailed signal — tail insurance, not a clean reversal). The live 2026-07-07 event auto-updates.
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Pairs / Spread Lab
LIVEINTERACTIVE
MA readings on relative-value ratios across ETFs, single stocks & commodities — spread-Z screener, ratio-vs-MA charter with ±2σ bands, forward-return spaghetti after stretch extremes, and a fresh ratio-cross screener.
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Ralph Lauren — Twin Bullish Setups
SIGNAL ACTIVE
Two rare technical signals fired on RL's May-2026 earnings gap — an Outside Reversal Week and a 'Double Cross' of the 65/200d MAs. Live trade vs every historical precedent.
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SPY / RSP Breadth Anomaly
SIGNAL ACTIVE
Cap-weight vs equal-weight S&P 500. A ≥2% weekly drop is a short-term snapback signal and a long-term allocation warning — the 0%-win-rate Time-Horizon Pivot.
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META / QQQ Divergence
Forward returns after QQQ rips +2% while META closes lower — a mean-reversion spread study.
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MDY / SPY Mid-Cap Leadership
Two ideas — the breadth-poke beta signal and the relative-thrust momentum signal. Point vs path.
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PSCE / IJR Washout
Small-cap-energy relative-strength washouts: a continuation signal, not a reversion one.
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SPMO / SPYV Regime
Momentum vs value — is the parabolic run a top or more of the same? The 2024 analog and regime dependence.
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LLY — Buying the Echo
Eli Lilly's reclaim-breakout pattern: 72 analogs, the chop-then-drift structure, and a defined-risk options expression.
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Research Notes
Long-form STORM research notes & deep dives on external frameworks
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Studies
Your own trading studies — a searchable PDF shelf, one card per document
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MA Stretch Lab
The flagship interactive tool — click any name for its stretch history & forward-return study
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Thematic Research
Catalyst-driven, hedge-fund-style theses
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💹 2Y Yield × Russell 3000 — Divergence, Back-Tested
BACK-TESTHONEST READ
The empirical backbone for the live Macro Divergence trade: is the rate–equity decoupling a tradeable rubber band or a trend artifact? We reproduce the study's −0.76 correlation, show it's a levels artifact (the honest daily-change correlation is ~+0.10), build a divergence-Z oscillator from a 3-year rolling regression, and event-study what actually happened after prior decouplings. The honest finding: the gap does revert (~78% of the time by 63d) — but through equity underperformance, not the yield-normalization the source leans on.
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Dollar Regime Tactical Rotation
SIGNAL ACTIVE
A composite strong-dollar signal (DXY>100 + momentum + trend) drives sector rotation — Energy & Financials in, rate-sensitive defensives out. Live regime dashboard.
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Rare Earths & the G7 Plan
SIGNAL ACTIVE
The G7 moves to cut China dependence in critical minerals — the investable Western-producer universe, a policy-shock event study, and the boom-bust risk.
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SpaceX Ecosystem
A complexity graph of the SpaceX supply chain and the publicly-traded opportunities around its IPO.
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Dispersion at the Highs — DSPX × SPX
MARKET STRUCTUREINTERACTIVE
The Cboe S&P 500 Dispersion Index sits near record highs at the same time as the index — a pairing that essentially never occurred before 2024. Rolling return correlations, the post-2024 regime break (0 joint-high days in 2014–19 → 66% of 2026), and the structural drivers: single-stock leverage, the AI complex, and a now-crowded dispersion trade.
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Analytics
Correlation, positioning & hedging utilities
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Resources
Curated reading
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