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Money Temperature — the 8 regime channels racing

Three years of monthly performance across the eight instruments Closelooknet uses to score the composite Money Temperature regime. Each channel reads a different regime dimension — broad equity (SPY, QQQ, VEU, EEM), duration (TLT), dollar strength (UUP), safe-haven (GLD), digital speculation (BTC). Watch the race and the regime narrative writes itself: who's carrying risk-on, who's flagging dedollarisation, when gold ran ahead of the equity complex.

Money Temperature — the 8 regime channels racing

% return since 2023-06 across the 8 instruments Closelooknet uses to score the composite Money Temperature regime

How to read this

Bars sort by % return since 2023-06, descending, recomputed each month. The leader (rank 1) paints brand red. Other bars carry their channel colour: blue for equity (SPY/QQQ/VEU/EEM), emerald for duration (TLT), slate for the dollar (UUP), amber for gold (GLD), orange for crypto (BTC). Returns are split- and dividend-adjusted via EODHD's adjusted_close; BTC uses close-only since the crypto endpoint doesn't carry the adjusted field.

Why these eight, not others

These are the same 8 instruments Closelooknet's Money Temperature framework scores every trading day. Each represents a structural channel of the regime — not just a popular ETF. The composite Money Temperature score (a 0-100 read of the regime, visible at /lab/temperature/) blends them via a 5-dimension model (position, momentum, volume, volatility, fragility). This race shows the underlying channels racing on the simplest measure that exposes regime rotation: cumulative return.

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Methodology

Source: EODHD monthly adjusted closes (split + dividend neutral). BTC via the .CC crypto endpoint, close-only.
Universe: SPY, QQQ, TLT, UUP, GLD, BTC-USD, VEU, EEM — the 8 channels scored by Closelooknet's Money Temperature framework.
Time window: 2023-06-01 → 2026-05-01, 51 monthly snapshots.
Value: cumulative % return since the first available close in the window.
Pacing: 0.8 months/second ≈ 64 s full race.
Refresh: dataset regenerated via npm run viz:data:temperature; committed to git.