A harder week than the last one, and a more instructive one. The tables rated both sides the most likely outcome on all five mornings and were paid on two of them. It is also the week in which the same forecast appeared twice and resolved two different ways, which is the most useful thing either week has shown.
Three scores, because the indicator makes three separable claims.
| Session | London | Prior sweep | High only | Low only | Both | Inside | First sweep called | Actual | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 10 Aug | 133 pt | Swept high | 19% | 30% | 50% | 1% | ▼ low 66% | ▼ low 07:45 ✓ | low only |
| Tue 11 Aug | 170 pt | Swept high | 34% | 25% | 41% | 0% | ▲ high 58% | ▼ low 09:35 ✗ | low only |
| Wed 12 Aug | 144 pt | Swept high | 38% | 11% | 50% | 1% | ▲ high 80% | ▲ high 08:00 ✓ | high only |
| Thu 13 Aug | 84 pt | Inside | 28% | 15% | 56% | 1% | ▲ high 58% | ▼ low 08:15 ✗ | both sides ✓ |
| Fri 14 Aug | 113 pt | Swept high | 38% | 11% | 50% | 1% | ▲ high 80% | ▲ high 07:45 ✓ | both sides ✓ |
The four share columns are the indicator's own figures, read off the status table at the session open, and they sum to 100 on every row. Gold marks the branch the tables rated highest, which was both sides on all five mornings. London printed below its own average range on every day again, making this the tenth consecutive compressed prior session across the two weeks published so far.
Left, the session opening at 07:30. Right, the same chart at 11:30 with the outcome latched.
London swept its own high overnight and then handed NY AM a session that opened below London EQ, which puts the low nearer. The tables read that correctly: 66% on the low going first, and it went at 07:45.
After that the session did nothing useful. Price spent four hours ranging between the low it had just taken and the middle of London's range, never getting within a hundred points of the high. Both sides at 50% was the favourite and it did not land, so the session scores nothing on axis 2.
Axis 3 splits it one from two: the low at 80% was taken, the high at 69% was not. That 69% is the number to watch this week, because a version of it recurs on four of the five mornings.
Everything the tables leaned on went the other way. The call was the high first at 58%; the low went first. The favourite was both sides at 41%; neither of the two most likely branches landed. What did land was low only at 25%, the smallest share on the table.
Price held above London EQ until the cash open, then dropped through the whole London range in under an hour, took the low at 09:35 and stayed down. The high, carrying a 75% marginal, was never threatened.
One from two on axis 3, zero on the other two axes. There is no reading of this session that flatters it, and a page that only published the good weeks would not be worth reading.
Price opened right underneath London's high with an 80% call that it would go first, and it went at 08:00. From there the session ran roughly 150 points higher, faded through the late morning and closed near where it broke out.
The low, 144 points below the high and carrying a 61% marginal, was never within reach. So both sides at 50%, the favourite for the third morning running, missed for the third morning running.
This is also the first of the week's two identical forecasts. Hold the numbers in mind: 38 / 11 / 50 / 1 with first sweep 80 / 20. Friday returns exactly the same table and does something different with it.
London printed just 84 points, by some distance the tightest prior session across both weeks, and stayed inside its own predecessor's range. A pair of levels that close together is a pair that is hard to avoid, and the table said so with 56% on both sides, the highest both-sides share either week has produced.
It also produced the only Medium sample in twenty readings, n 173 against the 450 to 840 everywhere else. Fewer comparable sessions sit behind this forecast, and the indicator says so on its own face rather than hiding it.
Both levels went within 45 minutes, the low at 08:15 and the high at 09:00, and NY AM then ran roughly 450 points higher. The order was wrong, so axis 1 records a miss, but the branch and both sides were right.
Friday's table is identical to Wednesday's: 38 / 11 / 50 / 1, first sweep 80 / 20, sample n 524. Same context bin, same forecast, produced two days apart from a different London range.
The high went at 07:45, exactly as the 80% implied. Then, where Wednesday simply kept going, Friday reversed hard through the late morning, gave back the entire move and took the low at 10:25. Three from three on the day.
Two identical forecasts, one landing high only and the other both sides. That is not the model contradicting itself. That is what a 50% figure means, and it is the clearest illustration either week has produced.
Across the ten sessions published so far, two context bins have each come up three times. Same context bin, same lookup, same numbers to the percentage point, on days weeks apart with different London ranges and different price levels.
| Forecast | Sessions | First sweep | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 / 11 / 50 / 1 · sweep 80 / 20 · n 524 | Fri 7 Aug | ▲ high 80% | high only |
| Wed 12 Aug | ▲ high 80% | high only | |
| Fri 14 Aug | ▲ high 80% | both sides | |
| 34 / 25 / 41 / 0 · sweep 58 / 42 · n 528 | Wed 5 Aug | ▲ high 58% | both sides |
| Thu 6 Aug | ▲ high 58% | both sides | |
| Tue 11 Aug | ▲ high 58% | low only |
Two things follow, and they matter more than this week's score.
The forecast is a lookup, not a fit. Nothing about Friday the 14th was used to produce Friday the 14th's numbers. They are the same numbers Wednesday got, and the same ones the 7th of August got, because all three sessions landed in the same measured bin. A model tuned to flatter itself would not keep handing out the same answer and then getting it wrong.
Identical forecasts resolving differently is the system working, not failing. A 50% both-sides figure that produced both sides every time would be evidence the number was wrong. Two from three is what 50% looks like at this sample size, and so is one from three. Neither settles anything; both are the point.
Four things, and the week went worse than the last one, which is exactly why it is here.