What counts as a phase change
A phase change is a meaningful state transition, not a daily price move. Examples:- Trend flip — short-term momentum changed sign and is confirmed by the medium-term signal
- Vol regime shift — vol moved from Low → Spiking, or Spiking → Normal
- Breakout — closed beyond a meaningful level (52-week high, 200-day MA reclaim, etc.)
- Breakdown — same idea on the downside
- Relative strength inflection — name’s relative-strength vs its sector or SPY just turned
Where to find it
Available from the Single Names section, on the Watchlists sub-tab. The Phase Change view runs against:- The active watchlist if one is loaded
- An ad-hoc sector load if you used Browse Sectors
- An all-watchlists sweep (“Analyze All Watchlists”) for thematic ignition signals across every basket you have
How to use it
- Daily skim — open Phase Change against your main watchlist. The flags are the names that earn attention today.
- Confirm with chart — click any flagged ticker to see the chart and the move that triggered it.
- Cross-check with macro — a ticker flipping bullish on a day the quant score is also flipping risk-on is a higher-conviction signal than a flip on a day the macro is fighting it.
- All-watchlists sweep — when multiple watchlists light up the same theme (e.g., “uranium” flagged across your speculative-energy and your inflation-hedge lists), that’s thematic ignition — flow concentrating on a real story.
What phase change is not
- It’s not a buy/sell signal — it’s an attention-direction tool
- It’s not predictive — it tells you a regime just changed, not whether it will hold
- It’s noisy in chop — during range-bound markets, expect some whipsaws