Market Regime Intelligence

Read the market shift before consensus does.

Built by Kip Lytel, CFA, MBA, BA in Economics. 30+ years in capital markets. Quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Forbes and Bloomberg.

Average 84% validated market signal prediction accuracy across the S&P 500 cycle.1

Predicted 8 out 8 bear markets since 1950.

−5% pullbacks, −10% corrections, −20% bear markets — and the recovery.

What the research shows

RegimeSignal™ Bear & correction alerts

+126%

more wealth than holding the S&P 500, acting only on RegimeSignal's bear and correction alerts, Dec 2000 to Oct 2025.2

Worst drawdown -12.7% vs -50.8% for the S&P 500.

RegimeSignal™ Core Stock Picks

20.3% a yearvs14.8% for the S&P 500

15 years, 2011 to 20253

RegimeSignal™ Monthly Stock Picks

15.7% a yearvs10.9% for the S&P 500

20 years, through Sep 20263

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Not hindsight. Not lagging indicators.

To our knowledge (public-market review, June 2026), it's the only publicly documented commercial framework reporting per-signal forward precision across a full-cycle regime taxonomy with this validation.

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“Shows not only what it thinks, but also the conditions behind the conclusion and the limits of the various calls. That makes it far more useful than a simple bullish/bearish indicator.”
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Signal Track Record · Full Cycle
Walk-Forward OOS
BRS · Bear market
86% precision · 304 mo · 7 of 7 OOS (+1990 in-sample)
MBS T1 · Pullback −5%
83% precision · 154 mo · 42 fires
MBS T2 · Correction −10%
84% precision · 154 mo · 32 fires
RRS · Bull market recovery +10%
82%† precision · 154 mo · 11 fires

Validated signal accuracy

Approximately 84% validated market signal prediction accuracy across the S&P 500 cycle.1

RegimeSignal™ calls the full S&P 500 cycle — pullbacks, corrections, bear regimes, and recoveries — months ahead, averaging ~84% out-of-sample precision across its four signals: bear-market detection (BRS) ~86%, pullback forecasts (MBS T1) ~83%, correction forecasts (MBS T2) ~84%, and recovery confirmation (RRS) ~82%2 — walk-forward validated and independently PhD-validated & audited.

To our knowledge (public-market review, June 2026), it's the only publicly documented commercial framework reporting per-signal forward precision across a full-cycle regime taxonomy with this validation.

The signals

Four validated models. One complete-cycle foresight engine for the S&P 500.

Each signal is independently constructed and walk-forward validated. Together with Bull Velocity and Bear Velocity, they cover the full S&P 500 cycle — from pullback warning to bear regime to confirmed recovery.

BRS

Bear Regime Signal™

86%¹

Precision when fires

Sees bear markets coming as they form — not after the damage is done. Fires Bear Alerts as the early warning layer for −20% regime risk.

Bear Alert · regime classifier

MBS T1

Market Break Signal — Tier 1

83%²

Precision when fires

Calls −5% pullbacks ahead of the move and triggers the Neutral state — a tactical heads-up before the dip.

Pullback · −5% · Neutral state trigger

MBS T2

Market Break Signal — Tier 2

84%³

Precision when fires

Calls −10% corrections four months ahead — the kind that actually hurt — and hands off to BRS when conditions deepen toward bear.

Correction · −10% · Underperform trigger

RRS

Regime Recovery Signal™

82%⁴ †

Precision when fires

Calls bull-market recovery (+10%) ahead. Stays silent during fake-out rallies, speaks up when the bull is real — the high-conviction recovery confirmation, historically associated with durable bull recoveries.

Recovery · +10% confirmation

Directional gauges only5 — not state triggers; excluded from the 4-signal aggregate due to statistical thinness, disclosed honestly. Useful as supporting context; their contribution to the composite score diminishes as signals decay over time.

Bull Velocity Rating

BWS engine

Within-bull weakening score — watches floorboards creak before the house comes down. 87% within-bull precision across 47 OOS months but AUC 0.67 with N=14 negatives — confirmatory only, not a fire signal.

Bear Velocity Rating

BES engine

Within-bear directional gauge tracking bear-to-recovery transitions. Often precedes RRS by weeks during recovery turns. 21 LOO-CV samples (COVID-dominated) — not walk-forward validated; confirmation only, never a fire signal.

Bull Health Tracker

BHT · descriptive

0–100 descriptive companion to Bull Velocity, calibrated against 33 years of bull history (310 clean bull months 1993–2026). Second lens on the same evidence — 60 ≈ historical bull low, 90 ≈ historical bull peak.

Pullback Resolution Gauge

PRG · Neutral companion

Within-Neutral directional gauge — measures which way a Neutral state is resolving. Composite of MBS T1, MBS T2, BRS distance-to-bear, and daily news flow. Components walk-forward validated; composite weighting is not. Confirmatory only.

Recovery Durability Gauge

RDG · Recovery companion

Within-Recovery directional gauge — distinguishes durable returns from bear-market rallies. Composite of RRS, Bear Velocity slope, BRS exit, price vs. 200-day MA, and credit spreads. Components walk-forward validated; composite weighting is not.

Inside the platform

The market's condition, measured — and stated in advance.

RegimeSignal™ publishes a current read on the S&P 500 market cycle, forward probability ranges measured against decades of market history, and independent evidence on any US-listed stock. Every figure names its basis and the date it was measured on.

Walk-forward validated out of sample · Computed on our own servers from our own daily bars · Every figure dated and sourced · A publisher of research, not an adviser

RegimeSignal™ organizes its live platform into seven Market Terminals, Market Calls, Analytics, Model Consensus, Composite Score and News. It publishes a current read on the market cycle, conditional base-rate research and per-security evidence screens — all computed on our own models from public market data, refreshed continuously, and every figure carrying its basis.

It is a publisher of research. It is not an investment adviser, it does not manage money, and nothing it publishes is a recommendation to buy or sell any security.

NavigationPlatform main navigation

Every research workspace stays one click away.

The platform's main navigation separates About, the S&P 500 Prediction, Market Calls, seven Market Terminals, Analytics, Model Consensus, Composite Score, News and Subscribe. Each workspace keeps its own purpose while the current market read remains visible across the platform.

Layer 1The market call

Where the market sits, stated in advance.

The headline read for the S&P 500: where the market sits in its cycle, whether conditions are strengthening or weakening, and a year-end range with the probability attached to it — never a single number pretending to be a forecast.

Alongside it, two things most commentary never gives you: what the model is watching, and what would change the call.

Research surfaceModel Consensus

Agreement and disagreement remain visible.

Model Consensus places every model reading and macro gauge on one page, then shows how each gauge behaved historically when a validated classifier fired. It is a research surface, not a signal, a forecast, or another classifier; only the four validated classifiers carry published precision.

Layer 2The validated signals

Four signals, held apart from everything else.

Four models carry measured out-of-sample precision and are named wherever they appear: the Bear Regime Signal (BRS), two drawdown classifiers (MBS T1 and MBS T2), and the Recovery Signal (RRS). They are walk-forward validated — trained only on data available at the time of each call, never on the answer — and they are the only work on the platform covered by the independent validation and audit engagements.

They are held apart from everything else on the platform, deliberately. The line between a validated signal and a research finding is the one distinction the whole product rests on, and blurring it would cost more than it could ever sell.

Layer 3Research and base rates

What has actually followed a setup like this one.

What has actually followed a given setup — how often, against what baseline, and whether the sample is large enough to mean anything. Calendar and election-cycle effects tested rather than asserted. Index, sector, global, commodity and thematic readings, each measured against its own threshold.

These are not forecasts, and the platform says so on every one of them. They are the base rate you would be arguing against if you took the other side — which is the thing almost no market commentary gives you at all.

Chart Analytics — a single stock's price with every past technical trigger marked on it and the forward result of each shown against the name's own baseline drift.

Each trigger marked on the price, with what actually followed on this name — and the baseline it has to beat.

Captured September 13, 2026.

Published research, not a recommendation to buy or sell any security. No trigger shown predicts anything.

Layer 4Per-security evidence

Every measure stated separately, never blended.

Every name in the screened universe is read through independent measures — earnings estimates, earnings growth, relative strength, technicals, accounting quality, analyst dispersion, share issuance, insider activity, valuation.

They are never averaged into a single score. That is a deliberate choice: averaging hides the disagreement, and the disagreement is the information. A name where every measure agrees is a different proposition from one where half of them are pulling against each other, and a single blended number makes those two look identical.

  • How much of the evidence agrees — offense, neutral or defense, with the count printed beside it so you can see what it rests on.
  • Whether it is improving or weakening — which measure changed, and when.
  • Whether that change was its own, or the whole market's.

That third reading is the one nothing else gives you. A measure that turned on a name the same day it turned across much of the board is market weather. The same measure turning on that name alone is news about that company. They look identical on a screener. They are not the same event, and the platform tells you which one you are looking at.

Market Verdicts — the per-security evidence board, with every measure stated separately per name and a day-over-day strip naming which measure moved on which name.

Every name, every measure, stated separately — and what changed since yesterday.

Captured September 13, 2026.

An evidence board, not a buy list. No recommendation to buy or sell any security.

Also liveCoverage

Beyond the S&P 500.

Index coverage across the Americas, Europe/Middle East/Africa and Asia-Pacific, plus credit, metals, energy, crypto and FX — each with day, year-to-date, three-month and one-year change and a one-year trend line.

Market Analytics — global index coverage across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific, plus credit, metals, energy, crypto and FX, each with change columns and a one-year trend line.

Coverage beyond the S&P 500, with the as-of time and the vendor delay stated on the page.

Captured September 13, 2026.

Values are the most recent completed session. Some rows carry a vendor delay of about fifteen minutes. Not real-time quotes.

Move OddsMagnitude without direction

How violently, not which way.

This is the one call on the platform that does not name a direction. It says how big, never which way.

It measures how often the following quarter delivered a move of more than ten percent in either direction, grouped by how far the instrument sat below its own running peak, counted across its entire price record.

The platform states plainly that the finding is suggestive rather than established, that the observations are not independent because drawdowns cluster in crises, and that no signal on the platform reads it.

Move Odds — how often the following quarter delivered a move of more than ten percent in either direction, grouped by depth below the instrument's own running peak.

How violently, not which way. A count across the instrument's own history, not an estimate.

Captured September 13, 2026.

No direction, forecast or probability of a rise or fall is implied, and no RegimeSignal model reads it.

Also live on the platform

  • Movement over time, not just today. The platform records when each measure changed on each name, which measure changed it, and how much of the whole board moved the same day. Price is charted with every one of those changes marked on it.
  • Sector context per name. A company's sector earnings growth and margin against the index, plus that sector's own drawdown model.
  • Downloadable written reports on every analytic page. Not a table dump: a document that explains what the figures mean, what would change them, and what they do not claim. Charts included.
  • Earnings season tracking. Measured against FactSet, with each figure naming its basis and its as-of date.
  • A live news feed. Filtered to market-relevant items, deduplicated across wire revisions of the same story.

Captures are dated photographs of the live platform taken September 13, 2026. Figures visible inside a capture are as of that date and are not claims about current coverage. RegimeSignal™ is a publisher of market research operated by Cronus Market Intelligence, LLC. It is not a registered investment adviser and does not provide personalized investment advice. Published research is informational only and is not a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Model results are historical and past results do not indicate future results.

Independently Validated & Audited

Two independent PhD-level reviews of RegimeSignal™'s four S&P 500 signals — both reaching "Validated with Qualifications."

Forward-looking signal intelligence

8 for 8 — every financially-driven S&P 500 bear regime caught ahead of time (7 of 7 in walk-forward OOS + 1990 in pre-OOS training history).

Bear markets called in advance: 1990 · 2000 · 2007 · 2011 · 2015 · 2018 · 2022 · 2025

Walk-forward OOS validation window covers 2000–2025; the 1990 cycle sits in pre-OOS training history.

BRS86%

Bear regime detection

304 OOS months, 2000–2025

MBS T183%

5%+ drawdown ahead

154 OOS months, 2013–2025

MBS T284%

10%+ correction ahead

154 OOS months, 2013–2025

RRS82%†

Bull recovery (+10%)

154 OOS months, 2013–2025

BWS engine87%

Within-bull weakening (directional gauge)⁶

47 OOS walk-forward

BES engine89%

Within-bear exit (directional gauge)⁷

21 LOO-CV, COVID-dominated

COVID March 2020 excluded as exogenous (handled by the HybridBrain™ ERI overlay). Validation summary across the locked model suite.

Precision = share of fires followed by the predicted event within the model's forward window. OOS = out-of-sample (walk-forward); LOO-CV = leave-one-out cross-validation. Past market signal record does not guarantee future results.

5 Directional engines (not formal signals): BWS — 47 OOS months, AUC 0.67, threshold ≥ 0.70, within-BULL only — powers Bull Velocity. BES — 21 LOO-CV BEAR months, threshold ≥ 0.55, within-BEAR only — powers Bear Velocity. BHT — descriptive 0–100 companion to Bull Velocity, calibrated against 310 clean bull months (1993–2026); inherits the BWS validation profile. PRG — within-NEUTRAL composite of MBS T1, MBS T2, BRS distance-to-bear, and news flow; components walk-forward validated (footnotes 1–3), composite weighting is not. RDG — within-RECOVERY composite of RRS, BES slope, BRS exit, SPX/200dma, HY OAS; components from validated signals (footnotes 1, 4) plus BES, composite weighting is not. ⚠ All five excluded from the formal 4-signal count — disclosed honestly.

Straight answers

The questions people ask first.

Isn't this just hindsight — looking backward and saying you called it?

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No. The signals are walk-forward validated, meaning each call is generated using only data available before that date, then scored afterwards. The methodology has also been independently reviewed and audited by an outside PhD.

What happens when a signal is wrong?

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It stays in the record. Every call is dated and kept in the platform, including the misses, and the published precision figures are stated with their limitations rather than rounded up. No model is right every time and we do not present one as if it were.

Who is actually behind this?

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Cronus Market Intelligence, LLC, a research firm based in Santa Barbara, California. Built by Kip Lytel, CFA, MBA, BA in Economics. 30+ years in capital markets. Quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Forbes and Bloomberg.

Is this financial advice?

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No. RegimeSignal™ is a market intelligence and research product. It is not investment advice, not a recommendation to buy or sell any security, and Cronus is not a registered investment adviser.

How do the readings reach me?

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The terminals live in your browser on desktop, laptop and tablet — no download required — and update daily. Text alerts are available as a separate opt-in inside your account settings.

What does the 7-day free trial include?

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Full platform access for seven days, including the four validated signals and the Market Calls terminals. A card is required at checkout, but you can cancel anytime before the trial ends.

What is the difference between a validated signal and a Market Call?

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The four validated signals (BRS, MBS T1, MBS T2, RRS) have been walk-forward validated and independently audited. Market Calls are informational research outputs — useful context, but not part of the validated signal layer.

More detail on the full FAQ and in the disclosures.

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1 RegimeSignal™ has been independently PhD-validated and audited: both concluded the bear (BRS), pullback (MBS T1), and correction (MBS T2) signals reproduced and matched their locked out-of-sample results, with the qualifications centering on the recovery signal (RRS) — hence, Validated with Qualifications. Both PhD reviews are made available to subscribers. See Disclosures.

2 Research study, not a trading record. Past results do not indicate future results.

3 Backtest of our ranking model on historical S&P 500 membership, 2000 to Sep 2026, after an assumed 0.35% trading cost. Core Stock Picks: top 20%, rebalanced quarterly. Backtest 2011–2025; method selected on 2011–2017 data, 2018–2025 untested at selection (5 of 8 years). Not a trading record. Past results do not indicate future results.