Garst Crash Dashboard - Tier Heatmap with Scores

Scores: -100 to +100 (Negative = Crash Risk, Positive = Healthy). Color/Size = Magnitude. Updated: November 12, 2025

Category / Indicator Tier 1 (Real-Time Alerts) Tier 2 (Weekly Monitoring) Tier 3 (Monthly/Quarterly Check)
Market Internals & Breadth
Advance/Decline Line — Compares advancing to declining stocks. -82
New 52-Week Highs vs Lows — Tracks leadership or weakness breadth. 2
% Stocks Above 200-Day MA — Long-term trend participation gauge. 48
Volume Ratio (Down vs Up Days) — Tests selling vs buying intensity. -32
NYSE Tick Extremes — Captures intraday sentiment extremes. -40
Market Cap Concentration — Identifies narrow leadership risk. -80
Breadth Thrusts — Measures sudden expansions in participation. 30
Sector New Lows — Sectoral deterioration indicator. -90
RSI Oversold Ratio — Gauges short-term exhaustion. -52
Circuit Breaker Triggers — Monitors panic thresholds. -68
Hindenburg Omen — breadth breakdown warning. -45
McClellan Oscillator — confirms weekly trend strength. 35
S&P 500 Advance-Decline Ratio — weekly market health gauge. 8
Volatility & Options Markets
VIX Level — Baseline volatility gauge. -85
VIX Term Structure — Shape of volatility curve. -38 -22
SKEW Index — Tail-risk pricing indicator. -28
Put/Call Ratio — Sentiment bias toward protection. -35
Institutional Put Flow — Smart-money hedging intensity. -50
Implied Vol Dispersion — Divergence among sectors. 0
Aggressive Option Buys vs Sells — Flow-based sentiment measure. -62
Short Put Exposure — Market complacency indicator. -92
VIX Futures Curve Slope — Forward fear dynamics. -20
IV Rank — Relative implied volatility percentile. -42
VIX Level & Spikes — short-term volatility warning -32
VVIX Spikes — volatility of volatility -72
Credit & Liquidity Stress
TED Spread — Short-term credit risk between banks. -78
High-Yield Credit Spread — Risk premium expansion in junk bonds. -52
CDS Index Moves — Cost of default protection trend. -25
Treasury Yield Curve — Inversion or steepening risk signal. 22
ETF Bid/Ask Spread — Trading liquidity measure. 12
Repo Market Rates — Collateral stress gauge. -18
Dealer Funding Stress — Leverage funding cost signal. -65
EM Sovereign Spread — Global credit contagion indicator. -38
Margin Loan Utilization — Risk-on leverage proxy. -88
Commercial Paper Rates — Corporate short-term funding health -12
Macro & Economic Shocks
PMI Surprise — Business condition deviation. 28
Unemployment Claims — Labor stress signals. -28
Real Yields — Policy tightening impact. 0
Inflation Surprise — Shock to purchasing power. -15
Economic Surprise Index — Overall data momentum. 15
LEI Slope — Forward economic trajectory. -48
Trade or Tariff Shocks — External pressure triggers. -80
Earnings Revision Ratio — Profit outlook changes. 22
Consumer Confidence — Sentiment-driven spending signal. -32
Policy Uncertainty — Macroeconomic risk premium gauge. -98
Sahm Rule Trigger -72
Buffett Indicator -90
MM Manufacturing Cycle Index -38
Shiller CAPE Ratio -85
Sentiment & Leverage
Margin Debt Level — Aggregate leverage in equities -90
Hedge Fund Leverage — Institutional risk appetite -68
Retail Positioning — Crowd behavior indicator -22
Mutual Fund / ETF Flows — Retail allocation trends -42
Short Interest Ratio — Bearish conviction level 18
Investor Surveys — Sentiment bias checks 0
Leveraged ETF Funding Costs — Risk cost dynamics -18
Leveraged Product Concentration — Product exposure clustering -52
Cross-Asset Correlation — Systemic risk spread proxy -28
Panic Keyword Volume — Public fear sentiment online -62
Derivatives & Forward Market Stress
SPX Futures Basis — Futures vs spot valuation gap -25
Futures Open Interest Change — Positioning trend shift -20
Dealer Gamma Exposure — Hedging imbalance measure -70
CFTC Positioning — Speculative positioning overview 0
Cross-Asset Futures Correlation — Intermarket risk linkage -32
VIX Futures OI & Roll Yield — Volatility term tension -48
Swap Spread — Credit risk in swap pricing -40
Variance Swap Pricing — Volatility premium structure -35
Cross-Currency Basis Swaps — FX funding stress proxy -22
Total Derivative Notional Change — Global leverage pressure -78
CRASH IMMINENT
Total Score: -1385