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Market history,
made comparable.

Understanding a market begins with a better comparison. Chart Library studies what past situations can tell us about the present—and where the evidence ends.

Inside the research · A conceptual guide
OBSERVED STATEWHAT FOLLOWED ELSEWHERESUBJECTHISTORICAL WINDOWDISTRIBUTION, NOT A TARGET
01 / The question

What happened in situations like this?

Find comparable historical states. Examine the range of outcomes that followed. Then ask how much confidence that comparison deserves.

A range of outcomes, not a price target
Schematic illustration · Not live market data, a measured projection, or a forecast. Published studies and the search tool contain the actual evidence.
Selected publications

Questions worth testing.
Findings worth sharing.

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CalibrationStudy 103

Making uncertainty bands more honest on gap days

One multiplier, ×1.48, fitted on the earlier half lifts held-out gap-day coverage from 0.70 to 0.83. The under-coverage lives in non-earnings gaps and in up-gaps; earnings gaps were already covered by the earnings conditioner, so the new one belongs on gap days that are not earnings sessions.

Pass
MemoryStudy 100

Similar charts tell us more about range than direction

Tighter neighborhoods are genuinely more similar in what followed: the dispersion ratio falls monotonically as k shrinks, at every horizon. The tails narrow; the interquartile range barely moves. The state definition carries real information, but about how much, not which way.

Pass
CalibrationStudy 102

Same event does not always mean a better comparison

The event-banded set is wider, not narrower, and no better at equal coverage. The finding underneath mattered more: the served analog set for an event day is the state's twins, not the event's, and the served band under-covers event days at 5 days. That under-coverage is what study 103 repaired.

Fail

The public ledger currently contains 14 selected studies. Each includes its research question, decision criteria, and available source documents. Negative findings belong in the record too.

The daily research note

A daily observation.
A record that stays.

A fixed selection rule identifies unusual market states. Historical outcome ranges are published, then compared with what actually happens as sessions settle.

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Uncertainty & accountability

How well do the
ranges hold up?

A research tool should be examined as carefully as the markets it studies. The calibration record separates current service performance from frozen historical evaluations.

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Research areas

Three connected questions.

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01

Market memory

What makes one historical market state comparable to another? Study chart structure alongside the conditions in which it occurred.

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02

Measured uncertainty

Do historical outcome ranges cover new observations as often as they claim? Test coverage, width, and the conditions where a method breaks down.

Examine the evidence
03

Context & comparability

Do earnings, gaps, or company disclosures improve a comparison? A plausible story must earn its place through a defined test.

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Serious research.
Open to everyone.

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