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SP500 · FRED

Equity drawdown from trailing 12-month high

Drawdown as a POSITIVE magnitude (percent below the trailing 12-month high), never level. FRED carries only ~10 years of SP500 (S&P licence: no reproduction), so the feature is built on NASDAQCOM for the whole history to keep one consistent scale (audit M-02). Audit 2026-10-02 fixed an inverted sign (C-01).

Latest reading

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Signal

+0.21

Inside the normal range. Not a strong reading either way.

Use
In model: block 10 score
Model input
the level as published
Direction
A rising value raises recession risk.

Where it fits

Equity, Volatility & Cross-Asset: Extract cycle information from market internals rather than index level. The model averages the standardised signals in each block into a block score, then combines the twelve block scores in a probit. Today the 12-block model reads 1.6%.

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