Class-A Free Continuity Panel
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Definition
A curated set of free, tightly-sourced indicators built to keep working after the 2026-08-14 SentimenTrader vendor cutoff.
How to read it
This panel is the portal's 'always-on' safety net. It bundles indicators drawn only from durable, freely-available public sources — FRED (VIX), the CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT), and OCC / NAAIM / FINRA series — so that if a paid vendor feed (SentimenTrader) goes dark on 2026-08-14, the core sentiment and positioning picture keeps updating. We call it 'Class-A' because every series in it is reconstructable from a single authoritative government or exchange source rather than a proprietary blend. Think of it as the sovereign, self-owned floor beneath the fancier vendor layers.
How practitioners use it
Used as context among multiple indicators — never as a standalone signal to act.
Less common professional uses
Power move: pin the continuity panel next to a vendor panel to build your own 'vendor vs. sovereign' tracking-error view before the cutoff, so you know how much signal you actually lose. Caveat: free government series often publish on slower cadences (COT is weekly, released Friday for Tuesday positions) — a 'fresh' Class-A reading can still be several days behind intraday vendor data. The panel is intentionally conservative: it will show fewer, coarser indicators rather than fill gaps with modeled estimates.
Sources & provenance
FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) — VIX; CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT); OCC options volume; NAAIM Exposure Index; FINRA short-sale data
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