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Stance
Composite 0–100 score combining Trend, Breadth, Leadership, and Macro into a single market-regime read. Higher = more constructive; lower = more defensive.
Macro leads, Leadership lags.
Stance is a daily 0–100 score for the current US market regime, composed from four subscores. A high Stance (60–80 constructive, 80+ aggressive) means trend, breadth, leadership, and macro are mostly aligned and supportive. A low Stance (under 40) means most of those pillars are warning. The five regime bands are Defensive (0–19), Caution (20–39), Neutral (40–59), Constructive (60–79), and Aggressive (80–100).
The four subscores carry different weights. Trend (30%) reads whether the major indexes are above their moving averages. Breadth (30%) reads how many stocks are actually participating. Leadership (20%) reads who is driving the move. Macro (20%) reads whether the credit, rates, and volatility backdrop helps or hurts risk assets. Trend and Breadth carry the heaviest weight because index direction and participation breadth are the most durable signals of regime quality, while Leadership and Macro provide confirmation and context.
Stance reports market conditions; it does not recommend trades. The score updates once per US trading day after the close (~23:30 UTC).
The Stance reading is a daily composite score from 0 to 100 that summarizes the current US equity market regime across four subscores: Trend, Breadth, Leadership, and Macro. Trend and Breadth each carry 30% weight; Leadership and Macro each carry 20%. The score maps to four regime bands — Defensive, Caution, Neutral, Constructive — and is computed after the US market close each trading day. Stance reports conditions; it does not recommend trades.
A market regime is the prevailing condition of the equity market over a multi-week to multi-month window: whether trend, breadth, leadership, and macro are aligned constructively, neutrally, or defensively. TickerStance reports the regime as a 0-100 Stance score and a band label (Defensive, Caution, Neutral, Constructive). Knowing the regime tells you how aggressive to be with new positions, when to size down, and when to step aside. The score updates after each US market close.
The Stance score is a weighted composite of four subscores. Trend and Breadth each carry 30% of the weight; Leadership and Macro each carry 20%. Each subscore is itself a weighted blend of individual signals (for example, Trend combines SPY-vs-50d, slope, distance from 52-week highs, and several others). Every signal is normalized — typically via percentile rank, z-score, or a fixed band — before being weighted into its subscore. Methodology is fully documented and the source code is open.
A Stance score of 50 sits in the middle of the Neutral band (35-65 on the 0-100 scale). It signals that the four subscores are mixed — some constructive, some defensive — with no decisive regime. Practitioners in this range typically run starter-sized positions on the highest-quality setups, demand pristine bases, and avoid pyramiding into half-baked breakouts. A score of 50 is not "average" in a statistical sense; it is "no clear edge for aggressive risk."