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Brief #87 is out. The regime is risk-off (leaning); your Balanced allocation moved 3 points from long bonds to gold this week. Read brief #87.

Risk meterregime-model v2 · brief #87

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38Risk-off (leaning)

InputsThursday 2026-09-04
Regime

"Live" uses this week's reading. The others show what the same profile would hold in another regime. Nothing here changes the live model.

Model allocationBalanced · risk-off
Profile
Horizonsets the length of the projected range

    Balanced: ~34–55 % equities, Bitcoin capped at 10 %, cash floor 5 %.

    Why this weightingmodel reasoning

      Model output for an illustrative profile — not a recommendation for any individual investor.

      Projected rangeillustrative · 10y

      Monte Carlo fan from the historical volatility of the mix, 160 paths, €10,000 start. Illustrative, not a forecast. The median path is not an expectation.

      Macro cycleliquidity vs regime · 36m

      Blue: liquidity index. Teal: regime score. Dashed verticals: events that moved a component by more than one standard deviation.

      Your holdingsTotal 100 %
      Deltas compare the model with what you entered; the live model caps changes at 5 points per asset per week.
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      • Issue87

        CPI 3.4 %, the bond market saw it first

        Two-year yields led the print by eleven days. What the curve knew, and what the model did with it.

      • Issue86

        Gold at records — what central-bank buying means for a 60/40

        Official-sector demand has changed who sets the gold price. Why a 10–20 % sleeve is not a bet.

      • Issue85

        Liquidity cycles and Bitcoin: a 4-cycle view

        Four liquidity cycles, four Bitcoin cycles, one uncomfortable overlap. How we size a volatile asset.

      • Issue88

        Why the regime label needs two weeks to flip

        Hysteresis in the meter, explained with the 2019 and 2023 false starts.

        Coming Thu
        2026-09-11

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