What is Stance?

Stance is TickerStance's daily 0-100 read on the US equity market, built from four subscores: Trend, Breadth, Leadership, and Macro. It answers one question, what kind of market is this right now and where should a swing trader be hunting, without forecasting where the market goes next or naming individual stocks to buy.

The calculation starts from a fixed 30/30/20/20 blend: Trend and Breadth each carry 30% because index direction and how many stocks are actually participating are the most durable regime signals, while Leadership and Macro carry 20% each as confirmation and context. Five bands split the 0-100 scale: Defensive 0-20, Caution 20-40, Neutral 40-60, Constructive 60-80, and Aggressive 80-100. A missing pillar is neutral-filled at 50 rather than dropped, so a data gap cannot silently drag the score in either direction, and when Macro falls below 30 a stress multiplier scales the final number toward zero, because a bull regime should not print while credit or volatility is broken. Aggressive additionally requires every pillar at 50 or higher, so one hot pillar cannot carry the other three.