# The Trading Tools

> Free, daily-updated market internals, base-rate signals, 13F portfolios, and economic indicators. Every page leads with a dated, plain-English reading that can be quoted directly, plus transparent methodology and downloadable data. No paywall, no signup.

Data updates every weekday after the US market close. Each tool/indicator page carries the latest dated reading, full history charts, methodology, and FAQ. Raw indicator series are downloadable as CSV.

How to cite: quote the dated plain-English reading from any page ("As of <date>, <indicator> stands at <value>...") and link the page. All figures are computed by our own pipeline from named sources (FRED, FINRA, OCC, SEC EDGAR, and our maintained ~5,500-stock daily price database) — they are original computations, not scraped summaries.
Raw data roots: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/csv/ (per-symbol OHLCV), https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/ (economic series CSVs with release dates), full catalog at https://www.thetrading.tools/datasets, live freshness at https://www.thetrading.tools/status.

## Market Internals — Is this rally or selloff healthy under the hood?

- [Hindenburg Omen](https://www.thetrading.tools/hindenburg-omen): The breadth-based crash-risk indicator: daily signal, McClellan confirmation, cluster detection
- [MA Breadth](https://www.thetrading.tools/market-breadth): % of stocks above the 10-, 50-, 100- and 200-day moving averages — overbought/washout gauge
- [Advance-Decline Line](https://www.thetrading.tools/advance-decline-line): Daily advancers vs decliners and the cumulative A-D line — the classic divergence detector
- [New Highs – New Lows](https://www.thetrading.tools/new-highs-new-lows): 52-week breadth balance: fresh leadership vs fresh breakdown, daily and cumulative
- [Bullish Percent Index](https://www.thetrading.tools/bullish-percent-index): % of stocks on point-and-figure buy signals — overbought/oversold regime gauge
- [McClellan Oscillator](https://www.thetrading.tools/mcclellan-oscillator): EMA19 − EMA39 of net advances — the classic breadth-momentum oscillator

## Risk & Volatility — How dangerous is the market right now?

- [VIX Fear Index](https://www.thetrading.tools/vix-fear-index): The VIX charted against the S&P 500 with fear zones, a historical percentile, and the implied-vs-realized volatility spread
- [VIX Term Structure](https://www.thetrading.tools/vix-term-structure): VIX vs VIX3M ratio, 16 years of backwardation episodes, volatility regime detection
- [Credit Spreads](https://www.thetrading.tools/credit-spreads): HYG/LQD high-yield vs investment-grade ratio with z-score regimes — 15 years of history
- [Macro Panel](https://www.thetrading.tools/macro-panel): 15 cross-asset instruments synthesized into four macro drivers and a daily regime read

## Sectors — Where is money moving?

- [Sector Health](https://www.thetrading.tools/sector-health): All 11 GICS sector ETFs classified into regimes vs 50d/200d MAs, with rotation watchlists
- [Sector Performance](https://www.thetrading.tools/sector-performance): All 11 GICS sector ETFs vs SPY, rebased across 1M–5Y windows with a sortable returns table
- [Market Heatmap](https://www.thetrading.tools/market-heatmap): Treemap of the top 100 stocks + thematic sector maps, sized by live market cap

## Options & Flow — What is positioning saying?

- [SPY Options OI](https://www.thetrading.tools/spy-options-oi): Put/call regime, OI walls, max pain, dealer gamma and the zero-gamma flip
- [SPY Options Volume](https://www.thetrading.tools/spy-options-volume): Daily SPY call & put volume from OCC clearing data with the put/call ratio and a customer-only split
- [Commitment of Traders](https://www.thetrading.tools/commitment-of-traders): Weekly CFTC smart-money positioning across indices, rates, FX & commodities with a 3-year COT Index
- [Unusual Options Activity](https://www.thetrading.tools/unusual-options-activity): Daily 3-factor composite scan ranking the most unusual bullish and bearish chains
- [Unusual Volume](https://www.thetrading.tools/unusual-volume): Stock-level volume-spike detection across the full universe

## Stocks & Events — What's happening in single names?

- [Momentum Scanner](https://www.thetrading.tools/momentum-scanner): Full-universe 7-factor momentum ranking, scored daily
- [Earnings Calendar](https://www.thetrading.tools/earnings-calendar): Daily earnings with EPS/revenue surprises and next-day reactions
- [Fund Managers (13F)](https://www.thetrading.tools/fund-managers): Quarterly holdings of tracked managers from SEC 13F filings

## Stock Charts

- [Stock Charts](https://www.thetrading.tools/chart?symbol=SPY): Daily OHLCV candlestick chart for ~5,500 US equities (history from 2010, SPY from 1993)

## Signals — SPY base-rate studies

- [All signals](https://www.thetrading.tools/signals): every occurrence of each trigger with forward returns at 1w-12m horizons
- [Golden Cross](https://www.thetrading.tools/golden-cross): SPY's 50-day simple moving average crosses above its 200-day simple moving average.
- [Monthly Faber Crossover](https://www.thetrading.tools/monthly-faber): SPY month-end close crosses above its 10-month simple moving average.
- [50/200 MA Reclaim](https://www.thetrading.tools/ma50-200-reclaim): SPY closes above both its 50- and 200-day moving averages after being below both.
- [RSI Oversold Thrust](https://www.thetrading.tools/rsi-oversold-thrust): SPY RSI(14) rallies from below 30 to above 60 within 20 trading days.

## Fund Managers — quarterly 13F portfolios

- [All fund managers](https://www.thetrading.tools/fund-managers)
- [Berkshire Hathaway](https://www.thetrading.tools/berkshire-hathaway-13f): Warren Buffett's quarterly 13F portfolio from SEC EDGAR
- [Lone Pine Capital](https://www.thetrading.tools/lone-pine-capital-13f): Steve Mandel's quarterly 13F portfolio from SEC EDGAR
- [Icahn Capital Management](https://www.thetrading.tools/icahn-capital-13f): Carl Icahn's quarterly 13F portfolio from SEC EDGAR
- [Appaloosa Management](https://www.thetrading.tools/appaloosa-management-13f): David Tepper's quarterly 13F portfolio from SEC EDGAR
- [Paulson & Co](https://www.thetrading.tools/paulson-co-13f): John Paulson's quarterly 13F portfolio from SEC EDGAR

## Economy — macro indicators (FRED/FINRA), full history + dated readings

- [All 52 indicators](https://www.thetrading.tools/economy)
- [Consumer Price Index (CPI)](https://www.thetrading.tools/cpi): Headline US consumer inflation — index level and year-over-year rate since 1947. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/cpi.csv)
- [Yield Curve (10Y−2Y & 10Y−3M)](https://www.thetrading.tools/yield-curve): The Treasury spread that has preceded every modern US recession when inverted. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/yield-curve.csv)
- [Consumer Sentiment (University of Michigan)](https://www.thetrading.tools/consumer-sentiment): The Michigan survey of household confidence — a contrarian gauge at extremes since 1952. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/consumer-sentiment.csv)
- [Capacity Utilization](https://www.thetrading.tools/capacity-utilization): How much of US industrial capacity is actually running — slack vs overheating. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/capacity-utilization.csv)
- [Continued Jobless Claims](https://www.thetrading.tools/continued-claims): How many Americans stay on unemployment benefits — the labor market's leak detector. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/continued-claims.csv)
- [Unemployment Rate](https://www.thetrading.tools/unemployment-rate): The U-3 jobless rate — the headline read on US labor-market slack since 1948. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/unemployment-rate.csv)
- [SPY / M2 Money Supply Ratio](https://www.thetrading.tools/spy-m2-ratio): Stocks priced in money supply — is the market expensive relative to the liquidity behind it? (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/spy-m2-ratio.csv)
- [Core CPI](https://www.thetrading.tools/core-cpi): US consumer inflation stripped of food and energy — the underlying trend. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/core-cpi.csv)
- [PCE Price Index](https://www.thetrading.tools/pce): The Fed's family of inflation gauges — broader coverage than CPI, usually a touch cooler. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/pce.csv)
- [Core PCE Price Index](https://www.thetrading.tools/core-pce): The Fed's preferred inflation gauge — the exact number behind "2% inflation." (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/core-pce.csv)
- [Producer Price Index](https://www.thetrading.tools/ppi): Inflation at the wholesale level — what producers receive before goods reach you. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/ppi.csv)
- [Federal Funds Rate](https://www.thetrading.tools/fed-funds-rate): The Fed's policy rate — the lever behind every other interest rate in the economy. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/fed-funds-rate.csv)
- [30-Year Fixed Mortgage Rate](https://www.thetrading.tools/mortgage-rate): The rate behind most US home purchases — the housing market's main throttle. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/mortgage-rate.csv)
- [National Financial Conditions Index](https://www.thetrading.tools/financial-conditions): A single number for how tight or loose US financial conditions are right now. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/financial-conditions.csv)
- [St. Louis Fed Financial Stress Index](https://www.thetrading.tools/financial-stress): A real-time stress gauge built from 18 market series — zero is normal. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/financial-stress.csv)
- [Economic Policy Uncertainty Index](https://www.thetrading.tools/economic-policy-uncertainty): How uncertain the policy environment is, read from news, tax law, and forecaster spread. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/economic-policy-uncertainty.csv)
- [Consumer Confidence (OECD)](https://www.thetrading.tools/consumer-confidence): The OECD's standardized read on US consumer optimism — 100 is the long-run average. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/consumer-confidence.csv)
- [M2 Money Supply](https://www.thetrading.tools/money-supply): The stock of spendable money in the US economy — and how fast it's growing. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/money-supply.csv)
- [Initial Jobless Claims](https://www.thetrading.tools/jobless-claims): Weekly new filings for unemployment benefits — the labor market's real-time tripwire. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/jobless-claims.csv)
- [Nonfarm Payrolls](https://www.thetrading.tools/nonfarm-payrolls): The monthly change in US jobs — the most market-moving release on the calendar. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/nonfarm-payrolls.csv)
- [Labor Force Participation Rate](https://www.thetrading.tools/labor-force): The share of working-age Americans in the workforce — context the jobless rate can't give you. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/labor-force.csv)
- [Layoffs & Discharges (JOLTS)](https://www.thetrading.tools/layoffs): Monthly involuntary separations from JOLTS — an early read on corporate distress. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/layoffs.csv)
- [Job Openings (JOLTS)](https://www.thetrading.tools/jolts-job-openings): Unfilled positions employers are actively recruiting for — the cleanest read on labor demand. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/jolts-job-openings.csv)
- [Long-Term Unemployment (27+ weeks)](https://www.thetrading.tools/long-term-unemployment): Workers jobless for six months or more — the labor market's most entrenched slack. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/long-term-unemployment.csv)
- [Sahm Rule Recession Indicator](https://www.thetrading.tools/sahm-rule): A real-time recession signal that trips when unemployment starts climbing fast. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/sahm-rule.csv)
- [Housing Starts](https://www.thetrading.tools/housing-starts): New residential construction breaking ground — one of the economy's earliest cyclical movers. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/housing-starts.csv)
- [Building Permits](https://www.thetrading.tools/building-permits): Permits issued for new homes — housing starts' one-to-two-month leading edge. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/building-permits.csv)
- [Existing Home Sales](https://www.thetrading.tools/existing-home-sales): The pace of resale home closings — the broadest barometer of housing demand. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/existing-home-sales.csv)
- [New Home Sales](https://www.thetrading.tools/new-home-sales): Contracts signed on newly built homes — a forward-looking pulse on construction demand. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/new-home-sales.csv)
- [Case-Shiller Home Price Index](https://www.thetrading.tools/case-shiller): The gold-standard gauge of US home price appreciation — repeat-sales, national. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/case-shiller.csv)
- [Real GDP Growth](https://www.thetrading.tools/gdp): The broadest measure of US economic output — quarterly real growth at an annualized rate. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/gdp.csv)
- [Industrial Production](https://www.thetrading.tools/industrial-production): Real output of US factories, mines, and utilities — a cyclical read that often leads GDP. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/industrial-production.csv)
- [Industrial Production: Manufacturing](https://www.thetrading.tools/industrial-production-manufacturing): Factory output alone — the manufacturing core of industrial production, stripped of mining and utilities. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/industrial-production-manufacturing.csv)
- [Durable Goods Orders](https://www.thetrading.tools/durable-goods-orders): New factory orders for goods built to last — a forward read on business investment. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/durable-goods-orders.csv)
- [Retail Sales](https://www.thetrading.tools/retail-sales): Total receipts at US retail and food-service establishments — the pulse of consumer spending. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/retail-sales.csv)
- [Advance Retail Sales (ex Food Services)](https://www.thetrading.tools/retail-sales-advance): The early, food-services-excluded estimate of monthly retail spending — first read of the cycle. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/retail-sales-advance.csv)
- [Real Retail Sales](https://www.thetrading.tools/real-retail-sales): Retail spending adjusted for inflation — the true volume of what consumers buy. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/real-retail-sales.csv)
- [Inventories-to-Sales Ratio](https://www.thetrading.tools/inventories-sales-ratio): How many months of sales US businesses hold in inventory — a clean recession early-warning. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/inventories-sales-ratio.csv)
- [Leading Economic Index (OECD CLI)](https://www.thetrading.tools/leading-economic-index): The OECD composite leading indicator — designed to flag business-cycle turning points months ahead. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/leading-economic-index.csv)
- [Personal Income](https://www.thetrading.tools/personal-income): Total income Americans receive from all sources — the fuel behind consumer spending. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/personal-income.csv)
- [NBER Recession Indicator](https://www.thetrading.tools/recession-indicators): The official 0/1 flag for whether the US economy is in an NBER-dated recession. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/recession-indicators.csv)
- [Cass Freight Index (Shipments)](https://www.thetrading.tools/cass-freight-index): North American freight shipment volumes — a real-time pulse on goods moving through the economy. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/cass-freight-index.csv)
- [Freight Transportation Services Index](https://www.thetrading.tools/freight-transportation): The government's read on for-hire freight output — trucking, rail, water, air, and pipeline combined. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/freight-transportation.csv)
- [Heavy Truck Sales](https://www.thetrading.tools/heavy-weight-trucks): New Class 8 truck sales — a cyclical recession bellwether that leads the business cycle. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/heavy-weight-trucks.csv)
- [Trade Balance (Goods & Services)](https://www.thetrading.tools/trade-balance): Net US exports minus imports — the deficit that subtracts from GDP and pressures the dollar. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/trade-balance.csv)
- [Smoothed Recession Probability](https://www.thetrading.tools/recession-probabilities): A model-based 0-100% estimate of whether the US economy is currently in recession. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/recession-probabilities.csv)
- [Money Market Fund Assets (Total)](https://www.thetrading.tools/money-market-funds): Total assets in US money market funds — the cash-on-the-sidelines and flight-to-safety gauge. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/money-market-funds.csv)
- [Retail Money Market Funds](https://www.thetrading.tools/retail-money-market-funds): Cash held by individual investors in money funds — a weekly read on retail risk appetite. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/retail-money-market-funds.csv)
- [Bank Lending Standards (SLOOS, C&I)](https://www.thetrading.tools/bank-lending-standards): The net share of banks tightening business loans — one of the most reliable recession leads. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/bank-lending-standards.csv)
- [Household Equity Allocation](https://www.thetrading.tools/household-equity-allocation): Stocks as a share of household financial assets — a long-horizon valuation and sentiment extreme gauge. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/household-equity-allocation.csv)
- [Top 1% Wealth Share](https://www.thetrading.tools/wealth-distribution): The share of US household net worth held by the wealthiest 1% — a concentration gauge. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/wealth-distribution.csv)
- [FINRA Margin Debt](https://www.thetrading.tools/margin-debt): How much investors have borrowed against their portfolios — leverage that amplifies both rallies and unwinds. (CSV: https://www.thetrading.tools/data/indicators/margin-debt.csv)

## Insights — data-driven market essays

- [All insights](https://www.thetrading.tools/insights)
- [Hedge Funds Are Record-Short S&P 500 Futures. Why It Isn’t Bearish](https://www.thetrading.tools/insights/sp500-futures-record-short): Leveraged funds hold a record net short in S&P 500 futures, yet the index is at all-time highs. Why the basis trade — not bearishness — explains it, with our own data.
- [Is Inflation Coming Back? The PPI–CPI Gap Just Hit Its 97th Percentile](https://www.thetrading.tools/insights/is-inflation-coming-back): CPI accelerated from 2.4% to 4.2% in four months while PPI hit 13.1% — a 97th-percentile gap. What the five prior episodes since 1948 did to consumer prices.
- [Household Equity Allocation Hit a Record. What It Means for Future Stock Returns](https://www.thetrading.tools/insights/household-equity-allocation): Household equity allocation reached 45.8% after a record 47.1% — above the 2000 peak. Why it points to lower long-run stock returns, not an imminent crash.

## About

- [Methodology — the standards every series is held to](https://www.thetrading.tools/methodology)
- [How the daily pipeline works](https://www.thetrading.tools/how-it-works)
- [What the site offers](https://www.thetrading.tools/what-we-offer)
- [About The Trading Tools](https://www.thetrading.tools/about)
- [Frequently asked questions](https://www.thetrading.tools/faq)
- [Data catalog — every downloadable dataset with sources and universe notes](https://www.thetrading.tools/datasets)
- [Live data freshness — last pipeline run and release calendar](https://www.thetrading.tools/status)
- [How we use AI — editorial standards](https://www.thetrading.tools/how-we-use-ai)
- [About the founder, Yuriy Matso](https://www.thetrading.tools/yuriy-matso)
- [Disclaimer — educational use only, not financial advice](https://www.thetrading.tools/disclaimer)