Macro Bias

Updated Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Market Regime Today

Is the market risk on or risk off today? The quantitative score below is calculated before the US open from 9 cross-asset ETFs matched against 10 years of historically similar sessions.

Stocks Regime Score

+13

Neutral

Mixed signals. No clean macro confirmation from the cross-asset rotation basket. Reduce sizing.

−1000+100

Last updated 8:44 AM EDT

Today's Read

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REGIME STATUS

Override active: headline-driven session, so the score is background context for now.

TRADING IMPLICATION

**Setup:** Headline-driven session, so the index read is unstable.

**Focus:** Low conviction. Focus on stock-specific setups, not index chasing.

**Risk:** Treating a reactive tape like a clean trend day.

WHY IT MATTERS

Iran escalation is moving the tape more than the normal setup this morning. If the market keeps repricing every new headline, the pattern is still broken.

BASE SCORE

Base model score: NEUTRAL (+13), but it is de-emphasized until the market stops trading on fresh headlines.

Full Session Playbook

Base case is chop unless the market starts to trend.

Favored: relative-value setups, idiosyncratic names, event-driven trades

Careful with: index momentum chasing, late breakout trades, big directional bets without confirmation

If this read is right, individual names should matter more than the index.

What Could Break This Read

Fresh news can make the historical matches much less useful before the market has time to settle.

The counter case is that this stops being a chop day and turns into a real trend, which would make a neutral read too cautious.

The model earns trust back only when the market stops reacting to each new headline.

Under The Hood

Closest match is 2025-07-24, which was a quieter session than this one. On a normal day this setup would usually stay contained, but today's news makes that comparison more of a baseline than a guide. Model Diagnostics: Closest Match 2025-07-24 | Intraday Net +0.32% | Session Range +0.43% | Match Confidence 91% | Override ACTIVE.

Based on 2,513 aligned sessions and 5 close historical matches.

Headline read

  • Trump says Iran has agreed to not have a nuclear weapon - Reuters
  • Norwegian teen, hired by Swedish crime group used by Iran, planned UK murder, London court told - Reuters
  • Israel intercepts 'hostile aircraft' that crossed from Lebanon, military says - Reuters

Crypto Regime Score

-74

Extreme Risk-Off

Broad risk-asset liquidation. Bonds, gold, and defensive sectors dominating flows.

−1000+100

Last updated 8:37 AM EDT

How the regime score works

The macro regime score ranges from −100 (extreme risk-off) to +100 (extreme risk-on). It measures today's cross-asset conditions against the most similar historical trading sessions from the past 10+ years.

A K-Nearest Neighbors model builds a 6-dimensional feature vector from SPY momentum (RSI-14), VIX implied volatility, HYG/TLT credit spreads, copper/gold industrial-vs-safe-haven ratio, USO energy momentum, and a dealer positioning proxy. It finds the 5 closest historical analogs, averages their forward returns, and maps the result to the −100 to +100 scale.

For crypto, a parallel model uses BTC realized volatility, ETH/BTC ratio, DXY dollar momentum, funding rates, and TLT rate-expectation momentum.

Both scores are published every trading day before the US equity open. The daily email gives the fast morning read, while this page carries the fuller trust check, model context, and session map.

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What each regime means

+60 to +100Extreme Risk-OnBroad structural bids. Lean into momentum and relative strength leaders.
+21 to +59Risk-OnGrowth-favoring conditions. Buy pullbacks in leading sectors.
−20 to +20NeutralMixed tape. Reduce position sizing. Wait for confirmation before committing.
−59 to −21Risk-OffDefensive rotation underway. Favor bonds, utilities, and cash.
−100 to −60Extreme Risk-OffBroad liquidation. Capital preservation mode. Avoid new longs.

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