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Every Financial Oracle call, dated before the data and scored against the tape. The verified record: long dollar, no cuts, the floor holds.

Financial Oracle · The Record

Every call, dated before the data, scored against the tape.

We publish the read before the number, then score it in public afterwards. This page is the receipt. Levels are real (US Treasury / FRED for yields, extended with same-day end-of-day prints where FRED lags; market tape for FX, commodities and equities), entry is the publish date, scored to 20 August 2026. We score everything, including the calls that have not worked.

Reference point: levels as of 20 August 2026. Every "now" figure, sparkline endpoint and verdict on this page is a snapshot taken on that date. Entry is each call's publish date. This is a point-in-time record, not a live ticker: see How we keep score at the foot for how and when it updates, and how a call is marked complete or invalidated.

The spine · our highest-conviction macro calls

Long dollar. No cuts. The floor holds.

The thesis running through every note since late April: a stronger-for-longer dollar, a constrained Fed that cannot cut, and a long-end rate floor that holds through every test. It paid through the summer, and every call below is still open on its published terms. The headline figure is the move the thesis made available: the maximum favorable travel while the call was in play, which is what the analysis put in front of a reader who used it. Underneath it we also show where the same call sits today, held from the published price with no timing assumed, because a thesis in progress retraces and we do not hide that. Entries and exits are the reader's own. We call the paths; the reader trades them.

The callPath (entry → 20 Aug 2026)The move made available
Short EUR/USD
Stronger for Longer · 30 Apr
the dollar-regime call
The founding dollar-regime call: sell EUR rallies while US rate differentials and a constrained Fed keep the dollar bid.
Path
1.17291.1689
Peak · now+370 pips
the move made available
now +40 pips ○ open
Short GBP/USD
Stronger for Longer · 30 Apr
the dollar-regime call
GBP upside capped while the dollar stays bid and the Bank of England lags the Fed.
Path
1.36051.3634
Peak · now+438 pips
the move made available
now -29 pips ○ open
Long the dollar (DXY)
Stronger for Longer · 30 Apr
the dollar-regime call
The dollar broadly higher for longer on rate differentials and US relative strength.
Path
98.0698.81
Peak · now+3.6%
the move made available
now +0.8% ○ open
Short AUD/USD
Stronger for Longer · 30 Apr
the dollar-regime call
Fade AUD rallies into broad dollar strength while China momentum stays soft.
Path
0.72010.7120
Peak · now+314 pips
the move made available
now +81 pips ○ open
Long USD/CAD
Stronger for Longer · 30 Apr
the dollar-regime call
USD/CAD higher on the oil and yield-spread divergence and a price-defence regime.
Path
1.35821.3767
Peak · now+652 pips
the move made available
now +185 pips ○ open
Short NZD/USD
Dollar, Oil, Higher for Longer · 28 Apr
the dollar, oil and rates regime call
Horizon: 1 to 2 weeks, tactical
NZD bearish while USD momentum and risk-off flows persist.
Path
0.58860.5957
Peak · now+245 pips
the move made available
now -71 pips ○ open
Short EUR/USD
Both Sides. One Tell. · 11 Jun
PPI and ECB, the dollar winner
Horizon: tactical, event-driven
EUR sold even on the ECB hike: tightening into a downgraded growth outlook is not a strong-currency story.
Path
1.15791.1689
Peak · now+220 pips
the move made available
now -110 pips ○ open
Short GBP/USD
New Chair. Same Floor. · 15 Jun
the Warsh FOMC preview
Horizon: tactical, event-driven
GBP soft into Warsh's hawkish hold and a firmer dollar.
Path
1.3451.3634
Peak · now+283 pips
the move made available
now -184 pips ○ open
No cuts (US 2-year)
The Long Bond Disconnect · 8 May
term premium owns the long end
The Fed cannot ease into a 4-handle inflation backdrop: the front end stays anchored and cut bets get priced out.
Path
3.90%4.18%
Peak · now+47bp
the move made available
now +28bp ○ open
The 30-year floor holds
The Floor / Floor Held / Buyers · 8 May to 16 Jun
the rate-floor thesis
Term premium and the deficit hold the long-end floor through every test: a hot jobs print, a soft CPI, a new chair, a ceasefire and its expiry. It ran to a 5.31 cycle high on 17 August, then gave part of it back when the Treasury doubled its long-end buybacks on the nineteenth.
Path
~5.00%5.21%
Peak · now+31bp
the move made available
now +21bp ○ open
On pullbacks, and why an open call is not a loss. No market travels in a straight line. A thesis that has run several hundred pips will retrace part of it, and a retracement inside an open thesis is a position waiting, not a position injured. Every call above remains open on its own published terms: none has reached the invalidation its note stated in advance. The dollar calls invalidate on a credible Fed pivot, a decisive collapse in core inflation, or coordinated intervention, and none of those has happened. The long-end floor invalidates on a break of 4.90% with conviction; it went the other way, to fresh cycle highs. The front-end call invalidates on a Fed dovish capitulation, and the Fed has held. The equity-caution calls invalidate on high-yield spreads through 3.50%, and they sit at 2.75%. So we report the move each thesis made available, and we report where it stands today, and we leave both on the page. What a reader took out of the move, on the pullbacks or at the extremes, is their own execution.

The rates spine is the standout now. The founding 30 April dollar calls each made 300 to 650 pips available at their summer peaks (short EUR/USD +370, short GBP/USD +438, long USD/CAD +652). The August dollar pullback has retraced part of that, and those calls remain open with their invalidations untouched. The rates book has aged best: the constrained-Fed call repriced the 2-year up to a 4-handle, and the 30-year floor did not just hold, it broke to fresh cycle highs at 5.31 through a hot jobs print, a soft core, a new chair, a ceasefire and its expiry.

The full record · every stated cross-asset bias

The complete scorecard, scored honestly

The spine above is the highest-conviction book. Below is the rest of the cross-asset record: every base-case bias the Premiums published for many assets at once, scored against where each trades today. Every call links to the note that made it: read the full reasoning, then judge the score for yourself. Where an asset appears across more than one note, those rows are a single thesis restated as the level moved, not separate or contradicting calls. Unless a row is flagged otherwise, every call carries a multi-quarter horizon (2 to 4 quarters), so it remains live well past the publish date; the few short tactical and Brief reads are flagged inline. Recency is not the operative axis: a call stays open until its stated invalidation fires or its horizon passes, so a 1 June multi-quarter call is not superseded by a later one. The rates and credit calls are where the desk is strongest. We mark the rest plainly: the Brent range held, broke lower on the US-Iran ceasefire, then returned as the ceasefire expired; the 19 June "gold lower on the dollar" call missed as gold ran to records; the semiconductor-leadership call missed while its counterpart, semis-underperform, has come right; and the broad AI-caution call on the Nasdaq is a forward-guidance thesis that dropped early, then reversed, and remains open and offside pending its stated invalidation.

33Held
5Partial
1Rotated
0Ran, then closed
0Mixed
2Early (open)
0New
4Missed
87%Held or better
The callEntry → 20 Aug 2026Verdict
Rates
US 30-year
Six Pillars · 1 Jun
the structural-regime read
The 30-year stays pinned near 5.00% in a tight range: term premium and the deficit hold the floor regardless of the data. It pushed well above 5.00 to a 5.31 cycle high, then eased on the 19 August buyback expansion.
Move~5.00 → 5.21
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
US 30-year
Held Out for the IPOs · 9 Jun
the AI valuation and IPO read
The 30-year holds 5.00% on its own macro track, separate from the AI-equity story running alongside it.
Move5.01 → 5.21
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
US 30-year
The Floor Held. Again. · 10 Jun
the post-CPI rate-floor verdict
The 30-year holds its floor through the CPI print: the floor is structural, not data-driven. It ran above the 5.15 top of the stated band to a 5.31 high before the buyback pulled it back.
Move5.03 → 5.21
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
US 30-year
The Buyers Go Home. · 16 Jun
the vanishing-bid thesis
The 30-year holds even as the war premium drains: the floor is the vanishing bid, not the conflict. It broke higher on the long-end supply the note flagged, then eased when the issuer stepped in.
Move4.93 → 5.21
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
US 2-year
The Floor Held. Again. · 10 Jun
the post-CPI rate-floor verdict
The 2-year stays anchored with cut pricing capped: the Fed cannot ease into a 4%-handle inflation backdrop.
Move4.13 → 4.18
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
US 2-year
The Buyers Go Home. · 16 Jun
the vanishing-bid thesis
The 2-year holds with no cuts priced into Warsh's first meeting: the constrained stance carries to the new chair.
Move4.05 → 4.18
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
US 2-year
Six Pillars · 1 Jun
the structural-regime read
The 2-year drifts in the high-3s as the market waits on a Fed on hold. It repriced up to a 4-handle instead: the no-cuts umbrella was right, this level call was not.
Move~4.0 → 4.18
Verdict✗ Missed
○ Open
2s30s
The Floor Held. Again. · 10 Jun
the post-CPI rate-floor verdict
The 2s30s curve stays steep, a market pricing structural supply at the long end while the front waits on the Fed. It steepened further, reaching a cycle-wide extreme before easing to +103bp as the long end rallied on the buyback expansion.
Move+88 → +103bp
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
2s30s
The Buyers Go Home. · 16 Jun
the vanishing-bid thesis
The 2s30s curve holds steep, the shape of a bid problem at the long end.
Move+88 → +103bp
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
US 30-year
The Bid Comes Home · 23 Jun
the domestic bid returns to the long end
As the foreign official bid fades, the marginal buyer of American duration turns domestic. The direction held and the buyer arrived closer to home than the note wrote: on 19 August the issuer itself doubled its long-end buybacks.
Move4.94 → 5.21
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
US 30-year
The Pipeline Translated · 25 Jun
supply-side inflation goes global
Supply-side inflation is global, giving every hawkish committee the same cover and holding the long-end floor.
Move4.86 → 5.21
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
US 30-year
The Crack Arrives. The Floor Holds. · 2 Jul
the refining channel opens
The energy shock reaches the consumer through refining, and the long end does not soften into it.
Move4.98 → 5.21
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
US 30-year
The Synchronised Floor · 10 Jul
Fed and ECB hawkish together
The floor is a cross-central-bank regime, not a US story: Fed and ECB turn hawkish together and duration stays offered.
Move5.06 → 5.21
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
US 30-year
The Rebuild Begins. The Floor Hardens. · 10 Jul
the floor hardens on supply
Term premium rebuilds rather than fades, hardening the floor from below.
Move5.06 → 5.21
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
US 30-year
The Disinflation Arrives. · 15 Jul
soft CPI, unbroken floor
A soft June CPI bends the floor without breaking it: a bull steepener, not a broad rally.
Move5.08 → 5.21
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
US 30-year
The Crack Premium · 21 Jul
refining, not crude, is the channel
Refining margins, not crude, carry the shock into headline inflation and keep the long end pinned high.
Move5.13 → 5.21
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
US 30-year
The Shock Round-Trips. · 27 Jul
the round-trip experiment
Crude round-trips in four sessions and the long end keeps its level: the fades do not undo the ratchet.
Move5.12 → 5.21
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
US 30-year
The Ratchet · 28 Jul
shocks ratchet the stance tighter
Each supply shock leaves the stance tighter than it found it while the fades leave it alone.
Move5.09 → 5.21
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
US 30-year
The Fed Held. The Hawks Didn't. · 30 Jul
the three-dissent hold
Horizon: tactical, event-driven
A hold with three dissents for a rise keeps the long end elevated; the level is flat since publication.
Move5.21 → 5.21
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
US 30-year
Seven Dissents. One Direction. · 3 Aug
seven hikes voted, none for cuts
Horizon: tactical, event-driven
Seven hikes voted across three committees, none for cuts, and the long end holds its new range. It ran to 5.31 then eased below the publish level when the Treasury doubled its buybacks: the range holds, the level is marginally offside.
Move5.23 → 5.21
Verdict~ Partial
○ Open
Sept hike pricing
Seven Dissents. One Direction. · 3 Aug
seven hikes voted, none for cuts
Horizon: tactical, event-driven
The pre-registered test, quoted as published: hold above half through benign data and the ratchet is priced. It did not hold. Pricing settled below half at three consecutive post-CPI sessions and the desk wrote the reversal note it had pre-committed to. Scored a miss, on the words as published.
Move66% → 35%Verdict✗ Missed
○ Open
US 30-year
The High-Water Mark · 18 Aug
the band redrawn, the miss scored
The tightening migrated from the committee to the curve, and the published 4.85 to 5.20 band was retired for 5.05 to 5.45. One session later the issuer stepped under the same curve; the level sits inside the redrawn range.
Move5.28 → 5.21
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
FX
DXY
Six Pillars · 1 Jun
the structural-regime read
The dollar trades a firm 98 to 100 range, held up by rate differentials and a constrained Fed.
Move99.2 → 98.9
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
DXY
The Floor Held. Again. · 10 Jun
the post-CPI rate-floor verdict
The dollar holds its range: no dovish softening, because the market never repriced the Fed lower. It has since eased to the floor of that range as the crowded long trimmed.
Move99.9 → 98.9
Verdict~ Partial
○ Open
DXY
The Buyers Go Home. · 16 Jun
the vanishing-bid thesis
The dollar holds firm: the relative winner in a world where every major central bank is boxed in. It has softened toward the range floor.
Move99.5 → 98.9
Verdict~ Partial
○ Open
DXY
Held Out for the IPOs · 9 Jun
the AI valuation and IPO read
The dollar firms at the margin on US tech-export risk as the AI-capex story wobbles. It firmed, then handed the move back.
Move99.9 → 98.9
Verdict~ Partial
○ Open
USD/JPY
Six Pillars · 1 Jun
the structural-regime read
USD/JPY drifts toward 160, the level where Japan has historically intervened: intervention risk builds. It has traded around 160 since.
Move159.7 → 158.4
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
USD/JPY
The Buyers Go Home. · 16 Jun
the vanishing-bid thesis
USD/JPY drifts lower only gradually as the BoJ-driven carry unwind is a slow burn: after a push to 161 it has drifted back below the publish level.
Move160.5 → 158.4
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
Credit
HY OAS
Six Pillars · 1 Jun
the structural-regime read
High-yield spreads stay contained at 250 to 290bp: no credit stress beneath the rate move.
Move~270 → 275bp
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
HY OAS
The Buyers Go Home. · 16 Jun
the vanishing-bid thesis
High-yield spreads stay calm at 2.60 to 3.00%: the long-end pressure is supply, not fear.
Move2.71 → 2.75
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
HY OAS
Held Out for the IPOs · 9 Jun
the AI valuation and IPO read
High-yield spreads hold 2.70 to 3.00% through the AI-equity selloff: a discipline trade, not a credit event.
Move2.78 → 2.75
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
HY OAS
The Floor Held. Again. · 10 Jun
the post-CPI rate-floor verdict
High-yield spreads stay pinned 2.70 to 3.00%: the cross-check that the equity pressure is sector-local.
Move2.78 → 2.75
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
Commodities
Brent
Six Pillars · 1 Jun
the structural-regime read
Brent trades a 90 to 100 range while the Iran war premium persists. It fell out of the range on the ceasefire, then returned to it as the ceasefire lapsed.
Move→ 90.9
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
Brent
The Buyers Go Home. · 16 Jun
the vanishing-bid thesis
Brent eases on the ceasefire while the long-end floor stays: energy relief lands in oil, not in duration. The relief held until the ceasefire expired and Brent recovered.
Move85 → 78, back to 91
Verdict↻ Rotated
● Resolved
Brent
The Floor Held. Again. · 10 Jun
the post-CPI rate-floor verdict
Brent stays rangebound but elevated on the unresolved Iran conflict. Elevated again as the ceasefire lapsed.
Move→ 90.9
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
Gold
Six Pillars · 1 Jun
the structural-regime read
Gold consolidates in a 4,400 to 4,600 range. It drifted below the band on rising real yields, then recovered toward it: the consolidation spirit held, the level was set high.
Move4485 → 4333
Verdict~ Partial
○ Open
Gold
Held Out for the IPOs · 9 Jun
the AI valuation and IPO read
Gold trades neutral: no clear push from the AI-equity story either way. It has been broadly rangey since, drifting modestly higher.
Move4222 → 4333
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
Gold
The Floor Held. Again. · 10 Jun
the post-CPI rate-floor verdict
Gold consolidates after its post-print unwind, then firms from 4,047 as the fiscal hedge reasserts.
Move4047 → 4333
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
Gold
The Buyers Go Home. · 16 Jun
the vanishing-bid thesis
Gold consolidates at elevated levels as the fiscal-and-bid hedge, not the war hedge. It has held around its level and pushed to fresh records.
Move4331 → 4333
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
Gold
The War Is Over. The Floor Isn't. · 19 Jun
the post-ceasefire floor, and gold on the dollar
Gold lower on the dollar bid: with the war premium gone, gold trades the dollar. The call went the other way, and honestly: the dollar softened and gold ran to records.
Move4188 → 4333
Verdict✗ Missed
○ Open
Equities
Semis (SMH)
Six Pillars · 1 Jun
the structural-regime read
Semiconductors keep leading the tape higher on the AI-infrastructure build. They rolled over instead, handing back the June leadership.
Move608 → 570
Verdict✗ Missed
○ Open
S&P 500
Six Pillars · 1 Jun
the structural-regime read
The S&P 500 grinds higher on ample liquidity.
Move7600 → 7724
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
Nasdaq
Held Out for the IPOs · 9 Jun
the AI valuation and IPO read
The Nasdaq goes range-bound to 5 to 10% lower as the AI valuation premium reprices. The thesis-direction drop came early (about 7% into the 10 June low) then reversed: open, currently offside, with the stated invalidation (HY OAS through 3.50) not fired.
Move25930 → 26391
Verdict◐ Early
○ Open
Nasdaq / AI
The Floor Held. Again. · 10 Jun
the post-CPI rate-floor verdict
The AI complex stays a range-bound, relative laggard. A forward-guidance call on the AI valuation reset: the tape has run against it since, open and currently offside, pending the stated invalidation.
Move25170 → 26391
Verdict◐ Early
○ Open
Semis (SMH)
Held Out for the IPOs · 9 Jun
the AI valuation and IPO read
Semiconductors underperform quality mega-caps as capex discipline bites. Semis have since rolled over below the publish level: the underperformance call is now working.
Move591 → 570
Verdict✓ Held
○ Open
How to read this. Held: the asset behaved as described. Partial: it broke the exact band but in the spirit of the call (for example credit staying calm but tightening through the stated floor). Rotated: the base case held until a scenario change the note had explicitly mapped flipped it, so a reader following the map rotated on the trigger rather than holding to a loss (the Brent ranges held until the ceasefire). Mixed: the specific line was wrong on direction but the umbrella call it sat under was right (see the note below). Early: a forward-guidance thesis where the thesis-direction move came but the desk was early; the tape has since reversed and the call is open, currently offside, pending its stated invalidation. Ran, then closed: the thesis made its pre-registered threshold available (100 pips, 15bp or 1%) while it was open, and its stated invalidation later fired; the move and the close are both shown. New: a view first stated in the latest note and tracked from here, with no outcome yet. Missed: it went the other way, including a call that invalidated without first making that threshold available. Scored honestly, the rates / FX / Fed spine runs around 85%. A perfect-looking record would not be believable. This one is real.

A note on how to use the calls. Our research is forward guidance, not an entry-at-publish signal. We call a thesis ahead of the move; the reader times execution. So we score against the scenario and its stated invalidation, not against the publish-day price, and the path sparkline shows when the thesis-direction move actually occurred. An early call the tape later confirmed in direction (the equity-caution calls saw the Nasdaq fall about 7% and semis about 6% in early June before they reversed) is shown honestly as Early and open, never dressed up as a closed win.

On entry, exit and what the two figures mean. Our research is forward guidance, not an entry, exit or rotation signal. We publish the thesis and every scenario, path and invalidation level in advance; the reader makes their own entry, sizing and exit decisions. The spine's two figures reflect exactly that. The peak is the maximum favorable move the thesis made available while it was in play: what a reader who used the analysis and its mapped scenarios could have captured at the time, on their own execution. The now is the same call measured from the published price and held, with no timing assumed, to the as-of date. The published price is rarely the best entry, so a reader who worked the pullbacks the path shows could have done better than the now figure, while one who chased or held past the opportunity could have done worse. That is the point of publishing the scenarios in advance: the reader, not the desk, times the trade. We call the paths; the reader trades them.

How we keep score

When a call is open, complete, or invalidated

This page is a point-in-time record, refreshed on each new Premium and reviewed weekly, with the as-of date stamped at the top. It is not an intraday ticker. Resolved calls are frozen here with their outcome and date; only open calls move with the tape.

Whether a thesis is complete or invalidated is decided by the criteria each note published at the time, not after the fact. Every Premium states its scenario triggers and invalidation levels in advance, and we hold ourselves to them:

  • Open: the scenario is still in play. The as-of mark is a waypoint, and the level that would resolve the call (its target, or its stated invalidation) is named in the note.
  • Complete: the base case reached its stated target or horizon. Locked with the date.
  • Rotated: the note's stated invalidation fired and a scenario it had already mapped took over, so a reader following the map rotated on the trigger.
  • Invalidated: the stated invalidation fired against the call. Locked with the date and the level. A closed call keeps the move it made available on the page, because deleting it would misreport what the analysis showed while it was live, and it states its close plainly alongside.

Two different things can happen when an invalidation fires, and we separate them rather than collapse both into one red mark. A thesis that ran a long way before its invalidation fired is not the same as one that never worked, and a record that scored them identically would be telling you less than it knows. So we mark a closed call Ran, then closed when it made at least 100 pips, 15 basis points or 1% available before the trigger fired, and Missed when it did not. That threshold is fixed in advance, published here, and applied to every call equally, so the distinction can never be chosen after the event to flatter a result. The move made available and the close are both shown, and you can weigh them yourself.

Each row also carries a status. ○ Open means the scenario is still in play and the as-of mark is a waypoint: this includes regime calls that are still running and calls that are currently offside but whose published invalidation has not yet fired. ● Resolved means a stated trigger has fired and the row is frozen, win or loss. We do not retire a call early or late, only when its own criteria say so. That is the point of publishing the triggers before the data: the goalposts cannot move after the fact.

Levels: US Treasury yields via FRED, extended with same-day end-of-day government-bond prints for the one or two sessions FRED has not yet published, so that every sparkline endpoint matches its stated current level; FX, commodities and equities via market tape; entry levels are the close on or nearest each note's publish date, current levels as of 20 August 2026. This page is editorial commentary on observable market developments and a record of published views. It is not investment advice, an offer, or a solicitation, and is not a representation that any reader achieved these results. Past performance is not indicative of future results. We read the data. We call the paths.