{"kind":"daily-overview","version":1,"date":"2026-10-29","dateLong":"Thursday, October 29, 2026","build":"20261029T215711Z","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T21:57:11+00:00","title":"TRAI Daily Overview — Thursday, October 29, 2026","headline":"SPY -0.4% · Software -3.9% avg · VIX 17.2 (transitional) · short momentum still negative-expectancy","durationSec":108.73,"tts":"edge-tts (en-US-AndrewMultilingualNeural, rate +25%)","runId":"2026-10-29_postclose_2026-10-29T20-34-14-137Z","dataAsOf":{"latest":"2026-10-29","regime":"2026-10-22","scorecard":"2026-10-22","events":"2026-10-29","correlations":"2026-10-22","intraday":"2026-10-29","options":"2026-10-29","macro":"2026-10-22"},"warnings":["/regime is as of 2026-10-22, not 2026-10-29","/scorecard is as of 2026-10-22, not 2026-10-29","/correlations is as of 2026-10-22, not 2026-10-29","/macro is as of 2026-10-22, not 2026-10-29"],"segments":[{"id":"intro","title":"Daily Overview","start":0,"end":13.342,"text":"TRAI daily overview for October 29. Screening and research, not investment advice. SPY fell 0.4%, QQQ 1.4% and the chip ETF SMH 1.1%.","concepts":[]},{"id":"regime","title":"Market regime","start":13.342,"end":41.217,"text":"The VIX, the market's 30-day implied volatility, rose 0.3 points to 17.2, a transitional reading. SPY's realized volatility, how much it actually moved over 20 days, is only 10.1%; that 7.1-point gap is the volatility risk premium. The term structure, short-dated versus 3-month VIX, is in steep contango (complacent / normal), which is normal. 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CVNA led with a residual z-score of 5.6, a market-adjusted move about 6 times its normal noise.","concepts":["vwap","residual_returns","z_scores"]},{"id":"short_mr","title":"Short momentum & mean reversion","start":59.561,"end":64.984,"text":"Mean reversion, big moves on ordinary volume that may fade, flagged 5, led by GE.","concepts":["z_scores","mean_reversion"]},{"id":"scorecard","title":"Scorecard — has it worked?","start":64.984,"end":79.909,"text":"Over 126 replayed sessions, short momentum's expectancy, the average net profit per trade, is -0.46%, with a t-stat of -3.7: beyond ±2, so likely not luck. 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