Know when markets are under stress before it's obvious.
StressSignal monitors 45+ signals across credit, volatility, funding, breadth, and margin — combining them into one clear regime read so you act earlier, not after the damage starts.
The problem
Most retail investors are always the last to know.
Headlines, charts, and social feeds tell you what already happened. Market stress builds in the financial plumbing days or weeks before it reaches your news feed.
You react too late
Most retail investors only recognize danger after risk assets have collapsed and the crowd has already exited.
Stress builds quietly
Funding strain, volatility structure, and balance sheet leaks worsen long before the mainstream narrative catches on.
Delay costs money
The penalty for using delayed instruments is bad timing, false trust, and avoidable severe portfolio drawdowns.
What we monitor
Nine stress dimensions. One unified score.
From labor markets to corporate balance sheets, consumer credit to funding liquidity — we track the signals that historically precede downturns. Each dimension's scoring criteria is public, clear, and mathematically verifiable.
Credit Spreads
HY/IG OAS, credit transmission, BDC non-accruals — watch where real credit stress is building.
Volatility & VIX
VIX, VVIX, SKEW — not just fear, but the structure of uncertainty across the options market.
Funding & Liquidity
SOFR, RRP, primary dealer positions — how tight is the plumbing before it shows in prices?
Labor & Employment
Initial jobless claims, continuing claims — employment stress often leads broader economic trouble.
Consumer Credit
Loan delinquencies, charge-off rates, lending standards — household stress before it becomes systemic.
Corporate Health
Bankruptcy filings, PIK usage, BDC distress — corporate fragility that can cascade into markets.
Market Breadth
SPY/IWM/QQQ relative strength, sector rotation — is the rally narrow or broad?
Margin & Leverage
FINRA margin debt, cascade vulnerability model — when leverage unwinds, it unwinds fast.
Narrative & Media
Social sentiment, news intensity — when the story changes faster than the data, that matters too.
Architecture & Pipeline
An ongoing, automated decision lifecycle.
To guarantee zero lag, our system functions as a continuous digital pipeline, automatically operating in four discrete phases to resolve posture.
Intelligent ingestion pipeline
FRED, SEC, FINRA, CBOE — We pull granular datasets across 14+ distinct feeds directly from FRED API endpoints, SEC EDGAR filings, and global trading desks instantly.
Independent scoring criteria
Multi-dimensional metrics — Every metric is validated for statistical sanity, then scored independently on localized historical thresholds, percentile ranges, and rate-of-change markers.
Unified stress framework
Weighted regime framework — Individual scored pieces are aggregated into a composite stress metric utilizing weighted categorizations and mapped into historical stress regimes.
Dynamic posture guidance
Risk exposure guidance — We translate scores directly into clear asset allocation frameworks, portfolio guidelines, and automatic alerts so you protect compounding capital early.
Pricing
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- Market stress level & regime band
- Plain-English risk summary
- Basic alert visibility
- Methodology documentation
For investors who want dependable ongoing monitoring.
- Everything in Free
- Live composite stress score
- 2-year score history & trends
- Alert rules & email notifications
- Market fragility overview
- Timing speed & risk probabilities
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Or subscribe now — skip trialInstitutional-grade APIs & premium data — not just public feeds.
- Everything in Plus
- ★ Government Contract Catalyst — AI-matched federal awards
- ★ Federal Grant Intelligence — Material grants tracking
- ★ World Stress Monitor — Global systemic stress tracking
- ★ AI Opportunity Radar — AI spending beneficiary tracking
- ★ Smart Money Tracker — Institutional accumulation signals
- ★ Insider Buying Intelligence — CEO/CFO purchases
- Institutional APIs: Cboe VVIX, SKEW, NY Fed SOFR/RRP
- Decision Engine & allocation guidance
- Labor distress & margin cascade panels
- Tactical scoring engine
- Full score driver breakdown
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Built on public data. No black box.
Every signal, active weight, and underlying formula is documented right here. We show you the logic freshness, statistical thresholds, and error rates so you can verify our conclusions directly before allocating capital.
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