Garst Crash Dashboard - Tier Heatmap with Scores

Scores: -100 to +100 (Negative = Crash Risk, Positive = Healthy). Color/Size = Magnitude. Updated: November 13, 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. -80
New 52-Week Highs vs Lows — Tracks leadership or weakness breadth. 5
% Stocks Above 200-Day MA — Long-term trend participation gauge. 50
Volume Ratio (Down vs Up Days) — Tests selling vs buying intensity. -30
NYSE Tick Extremes — Captures intraday sentiment extremes. -38
Market Cap Concentration — Identifies narrow leadership risk. -82
Breadth Thrusts — Measures sudden expansions in participation. 32
Sector New Lows — Sectoral deterioration indicator. -88
RSI Oversold Ratio — Gauges short-term exhaustion. -50
Circuit Breaker Triggers — Monitors panic thresholds. -66
Hindenburg Omen — breadth breakdown warning. -42
McClellan Oscillator — confirms weekly trend strength. 38
S&P 500 Advance-Decline Ratio — weekly market health gauge. 10
Volatility & Options Markets
VIX Level — Baseline volatility gauge. -82
VIX Term Structure — Shape of volatility curve. -36 -20
SKEW Index — Tail-risk pricing indicator. -26
Put/Call Ratio — Sentiment bias toward protection. -32
Institutional Put Flow — Smart-money hedging intensity. -48
Implied Vol Dispersion — Divergence among sectors. 0
Aggressive Option Buys vs Sells — Flow-based sentiment measure. -60
Short Put Exposure — Market complacency indicator. -90
VIX Futures Curve Slope — Forward fear dynamics. -18
IV Rank — Relative implied volatility percentile. -40
VIX Level & Spikes — short-term volatility warning -30
VVIX Spikes — volatility of volatility -70
Credit & Liquidity Stress
TED Spread — Short-term credit risk between banks. -76
High-Yield Credit Spread — Risk premium expansion in junk bonds. -50
CDS Index Moves — Cost of default protection trend. -22
Treasury Yield Curve — Inversion or steepening risk signal. 25
ETF Bid/Ask Spread — Trading liquidity measure. 15
Repo Market Rates — Collateral stress gauge. -16
Dealer Funding Stress — Leverage funding cost signal. -62
EM Sovereign Spread — Global credit contagion indicator. -36
Margin Loan Utilization — Risk-on leverage proxy. -92
Commercial Paper Rates — Corporate short-term funding health -10
Macro & Economic Shocks
PMI Surprise — Business condition deviation. 30
Unemployment Claims — Labor stress signals. -26
Real Yields — Policy tightening impact. 0
Inflation Surprise — Shock to purchasing power. -12
Economic Surprise Index — Overall data momentum. 18
LEI Slope — Forward economic trajectory. -46
Trade or Tariff Shocks — External pressure triggers. -78
Earnings Revision Ratio — Profit outlook changes. 25
Consumer Confidence — Sentiment-driven spending signal. -30
Policy Uncertainty — Macroeconomic risk premium gauge. -96
Sahm Rule Trigger -70
Buffett Indicator -92
MM Manufacturing Cycle Index -36
Shiller CAPE Ratio -88
Sentiment & Leverage
Margin Debt Level — Aggregate leverage in equities -92
Hedge Fund Leverage — Institutional risk appetite -66
Retail Positioning — Crowd behavior indicator -20
Mutual Fund / ETF Flows — Retail allocation trends -40
Short Interest Ratio — Bearish conviction level 20
Investor Surveys — Sentiment bias checks 0
Leveraged ETF Funding Costs — Risk cost dynamics -16
Leveraged Product Concentration — Product exposure clustering -50
Cross-Asset Correlation — Systemic risk spread proxy -26
Panic Keyword Volume — Public fear sentiment online -60
Derivatives & Forward Market Stress
SPX Futures Basis — Futures vs spot valuation gap -22
Futures Open Interest Change — Positioning trend shift -18
Dealer Gamma Exposure — Hedging imbalance measure -68
CFTC Positioning — Speculative positioning overview 0
Cross-Asset Futures Correlation — Intermarket risk linkage -30
VIX Futures OI & Roll Yield — Volatility term tension -46
Swap Spread — Credit risk in swap pricing -38
Variance Swap Pricing — Volatility premium structure -32
Cross-Currency Basis Swaps — FX funding stress proxy -20
Total Derivative Notional Change — Global leverage pressure -76
CRASH IMMINENT
Total Score: -1350