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Tuesday, October 6, 2026 · Data through Monday’s close, October 5, 2026

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If the Supercycle Score tracks the dollar’s grip on commodities, the Radar tracks which stock sectors are quietly turning before the headlines catch up.

Bar and Posture reflect each instrument’s CCI(20) reading, scaled 0 to 100. Color is the Golden Thread: green means the trend is confirmed up, red means confirmed down, yellow means unconfirmed either way.

SUPERCYCLE SCORE

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They’ve Gone to Plaid

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The Supercycle Score is the inverse of the dollar. UUP closed Monday at $28.99, a fresh 52-week high, against a 52-week low of $26.47 set January 27. The dollar is sitting at 100% of its own range, so the Score sits at the floor: zero.

The US Dollar Index proxy UUP closed Monday at $28.99. That is a fresh 52-week high on a closing basis, up 0.35% from Friday’s $28.89 close. It is also the exact number that pins the Supercycle Score at the literal floor of this model: 0 out of 100, the “They’ve Gone to Plaid” band. This is the third time the Score has hit that floor in about two weeks. It happened first on September 25. It happened again on October 2. Now it has happened again.

Zero on the Score just means the dollar sits at 100% of its own trailing 52-week range. The high, $28.99, was set Monday. The low, $26.47, was set back on January 27. A dollar sitting at the top of its own range has nowhere further up to drag the inverse score. That part of the math is not in question.

What is less settled is the dollar’s own momentum underneath that price. Its CCI(20) reading rose day over day, from 116.42 to 130.57. But that reading still sits below its own 14-day average of 150.74. So the Golden Thread confirms YELLOW, not green. The price made a new high. The trend underneath it has been cooling for more than a week.

That split matters more today because of who else showed up on the board. Nasdaq and S&P 500 are the only two names, out of twelve, carrying a confirmed GREEN trend this morning. They rose 1.05% and 0.66%. They rallied right alongside a stronger dollar, instead of fighting it, which is not the usual relationship. Platinum is the lone commodity holding a confirmed green, up 0.97%. Crude oil told the opposite story. It fell 2.29% on the session, and its Golden Thread flipped RED, confirmed, as its CCI fell further below its own 14-day average instead of bouncing. The other eight names, gold, silver, copper, nat gas, corn, soybeans, and palladium, are all stuck YELLOW. Real moves happened on the day. None of them confirmed into an actual trend, either direction.

Read the whole board together and the picture is simple. The market is letting the dollar’s price run. It is not yet letting the dollar’s trend catch up to that price. Equities are riding the move. The rest of the commodity complex is waiting it out.

The Treasury curve kept steepening into Monday’s close. Two-year notes sit at 4.84%. Ten-year notes sit at 5.31%, up 14 basis points in the last two weeks. Thirty-year bonds sit at 5.66%, up 17 basis points over that same stretch. The short end has barely moved. The long end has not stopped climbing.

Today brings four Fed officials to the microphone: John Williams, Michelle Bowman, Jeffrey Schmid, and Lorie Logan. None of them sets policy alone, but four speeches in one day is four chances for one offhand line to move the tape.

The real event sits tomorrow. The Fed releases its FOMC Minutes Wednesday afternoon, the first real look at how split the committee actually was behind its last decision. September’s CPI print follows a week later, on October 14, rated a high-impact release.

None of that has happened yet. All of it is why today’s dollar strength, however real on the price, still needs a trend to catch up to it before anyone calls it settled.

The CFTC’s latest Commitment of Traders report, for the week ended September 29, shows speculative money leaning harder into the dollar than at any point in the last three reports. Non-commercial traders held 29,742 long contracts in dollar-index futures against 17,861 short. That is a net long position of 11,881 contracts, up from 10,330 two weeks earlier and 10,593 three weeks earlier.

The crowd is getting longer the dollar at the same time the dollar’s own Golden Thread refuses to confirm. That is not exactly a contradiction. It is a tell. A trade this one-sided, built on a trend that has not actually turned, is exactly the kind of setup that snaps hard if the confirmation never comes.

There is a number on the ballot this November that has to clear 60 percent before it means anything. Florida’s Amendment 3 would widen the homestead exemption and knock a real amount off the property tax bill for homeowners up and down Brevard County, but only if three out of every five voters say yes on November 3rd. Space Coast Daily ran the math on it this week: a bigger exemption, a lower bill, and a county tax base that has to go find the shortfall somewhere else if it passes.

Sixty percent is a high bar on purpose. Somebody wrote that threshold into the amendment process so a tax break could not sneak through on a simple majority and a low-turnout Tuesday. You want to shrink what the county collects from homeowners, you have to go convince three-fifths of the people who bother to show up and vote.

The dollar does not have a threshold. Nobody has to clear 60 percent, or 50, or even 1, before the money in your wallet buys a little less than it did last year. It just happens, every year, with no ballot, no measure number, no county commission meeting where somebody gets three minutes at the podium to argue against it. Monday it closed at a fresh 52-week high. The Score pinned at the literal floor of this model for the third time in two weeks. And the crowd in the futures pit leaned even further into betting it keeps going: no supermajority required, no public comment period, no sign-up sheet.

Coke-TV is going to run this morning’s board as stocks rallying on dollar strength. Pepsi-TV is going to run it as the dollar squeezing the life out of commodities again. Neither one is going to mention that a few counties over, homeowners actually get a vote on whether their tax bill shrinks, and the currency they would be saving in does not offer them the same courtesy.