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Are you only invested in US equities? Global equities are in a raging bull right now.

Are you equal-weighting positions across different volatility regimes? If not, you're gambling.

Diversify. Beta-adjust. Follow the fractal math — and you'll have the best year of your money-management career.

VIX

The collective fractal signal from US equities (via VIX, credit, and bond volatility) shows the market just experienced another volatile wave spike — but it's passed.

Signals can flip quickly; all you can do is read today's signal and execute. The first step is being able to read it in real time. (Get the Similar Set Signal on your screen.)

HYG

Credit continues to build strength. The low end of the RANGE is crossing TREND, and price is attempting a break higher from TRADE. The top end of the RANGE is compressing, but it moves dynamically. As long as TRADE holds, expect a reshaping move upward.

MOVE

Bond volatility made a big move but respected TREND. This time it formed a higher low, and the top end of the RANGE sits above TREND. Still, expect rejection at TREND until it's decisively broken to the bullish side.

IWM

The Similar Set Signal never said to sell — no yard-sales here.

VIX came close to breaking TREND but didn't. Managing these volatility-spike wave OODA loops becomes much easier when you can simply look at the chart, see what the signal says, and execute.

QQQ

Nasdaq isn't a short unless we're in Quad 4 — but that doesn't mean you should be long either. It's already broken both TRADE and TREND, so this is a bearish test of those levels until we see a true volatility-adjusted break back above.

That would require ~1.7% above current TREND (608.70), putting the target near 619 — the top end of the RANGE. QQQ still has plenty of work to do.

GOOGL

This is the first time Google has been in a bearish TREND since May 13, 2025 — and the signal was spot-on. It told you exactly when to buy dips throughout 2025, then signaled when the dip-buying was over. The last green arrow was one of only five fractal opportunities; when it broke, it marked a significant fractal shift.

NVDA

One of the only mega-cap tickers in a bullish TREND right now. No surprise that QQQ looks nothing like the sector signals. Bullish TREND doesn't mean you have to be long — observing the machine is important for understanding flows.

Sector Signals

XLP

Bullish TRADE and TREND with RANGE above both — that's a limit order waiting to happen. The last setup like this (Jan 30) led to a 10% lower print.

Markets don't offer do-overs; you need to execute in real time.

XLI

Same setup in XLI. You never know exactly when opportunities will arrive, but core positions should still be riding this higher.

Once you see the signal, you start seeing fractal structure instead of ticker names. I couldn't care less whether it's XLI or something "sexy" like ETH (not so sexy after -50%).

Macro Markets

GVAL

​Tuesday, February 17, 2026​

"Did you catch the dip in GVAL?"

It's not luck — it's math.

Where did you buy the dip yesterday?

What's it up on a volatility-adjusted scale?

GVAL carries just 1.4% vol risk right now (vs. Silver at 7%), so it should be about 5× larger than a silver position. A 2% bounce in one day is significant when you're managing money professionally.

KOSPI

Kospi was in bullish TRADE and TREND with RANGE above both. Green arrow appeared (that's your buy). Vol risk was only 2.7%, and now it's up 12% in five days.

Stop thinking you need US tech to make money — you need the Similar Set Signal so you can always spot what's in a fractal bull market.

EEM

Quick reminder: sell some at the top end of the RANGE too it's an important part of the process.

MOO

Think about your process.

What do you look for to execute? Do you know your setups? Do you have rules? Where are you taking risk — and is it correlated?

Once you have the Similar Set Signal, all you need is discipline: place orders near the low end of the RANGE in tickers that look like this, sell some at the top end, and exit when it breaks TREND. Rinse and repeat.

Agribusiness has gone straight up — unrelated to US tech or global equities — and it's close to another fractal buy that fits the diversify / equal-weight / fractal criteria.

USO

​Friday, February 13, 2026​

"fractal buy"

• Jan 12: Enter signal → +12%
• Jan 29: Exhaust (sell some) before -6% drop to low end of RANGE
• Feb 12: Buy back — bullish TRADE / TREND at RANGE → +5%

This signal is worth so much more than the price of lifetime ownership.

DXY

Don't chase.

When a ticker sits at the low end of the RANGE in bullish TRADE, don't chase — the path is clear if you have the full fractal picture.

Next in the cycle? First break of TRADE → look to short at TREND. Simple. Clear. Just needs discipline.

30YR

Moves become obvious and clean with the Similar Set Signal.

Most people see only price. Price alone tells me nothing without the measured, mapped volume and volatility fractal math layered on top.

GLD

Rates down, gold up.

The signal is building strength: low end crossing TREND and sloping upward. Math said buy at the green arrow and hold — that's as much thinking as I've needed in gold while executing relentlessly everywhere else.

IBIT

I only review cash markets for other asset classes I'm going to start in Bitcoin too. IBIT removes after-hours/weekend noise from the dataset.

Current fractal structure suggests a potential short at the top end of the RANGE while it's below TRADE and TREND (the inverse of the EM and sector long setups discussed today). Fractals work both ways.

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