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Studies & findings

The question. The test.
The result.

A selected record of Chart Library's research into market history and uncertainty. Each study links its question, decision criteria, and available source documents. A negative finding is part of the work, not a reason to disappear it.

Read the latest research update → Short, dated explanations of published work. The study records below remain the source of truth.

14public studies
2passed their criteria
9did not pass
3other statuses

14 of 14 studies · Most recently decided first

Study 103Calibration

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
Study 102Calibration

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
Study 101Calibration

Closer analogs do not automatically deserve more weight

At k = 200 the member distances span too narrow a range for a kernel to separate anything: the median change in width is 0.2%. Inverse-rank weighting narrows the band 11% but loses 5.2 points of coverage, failing the guard. The unweighted band stays.

Fail
Study 100Memory

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
Study 99Memory

Large price moves did not establish a reliable directional signal

Zero of 64 cell-horizons clear the gates. Pooled continuation sits at 0.48–0.50 everywhere, and the mean continuation excess is within 0.3 points of zero in discovery and mildly negative in the holdout. Direction is closed on large-move states; this adds to studies 89 and 93.

Fail
Study RPO-1Fundamentals

Testing software backlog data as a comparison signal

RPO remains inspectable state and is explicitly not promoted into ranking. The opened sample is spent. The source lane behind it (149 official SEC reports, hash-addressed) stays as provenance.

Fail
Study EV-0Events

Testing whether earnings context improves chart comparisons

The event state changed the selected analog sets but not their forward coherence. Coarse fiscal-period, timeframe and reporting-lag similarity stays inspectable with zero ranking authority. The sample is spent and is not tuned.

Fail
Study ER-002Edge refinery

Issuer buyback-blackout reopening

The source census covered every reviewed buyback issuer and found no qualifying dates under the frozen definition. Stopped before an outcome task existed; no return, price-path, order or position field was accessed.

Stopped
Study ER-004Edge refinery

Legacy fundamental-factor deciles

Neither the historical evidence nor the implementation costs supported the family, so it was retired as a family. Family-level retirement prevents cosmetic retries.

Stopped
Study ER-001Edge refinery

New buyback authorization × published days-to-cover

The attractive headline effect was rejected: underpowered, confidence bounds crossing zero, and a large pre-event placebo suggesting the move was already underway before the filing. The lineage was retired without opening 2026.

Fail
Study CAT-1Edge refinery

Catalyst impulse, balance and restart

Falsified on its frozen population. No promotion, no shadow launch, no parameter change and no outcome rescue.

Fail
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The hypothesis did not clear its decision criteria. The result remains visible, with the original question and the reasons it did not pass.

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