Fundamentals are backward-looking. Technicals are context-blind. Narratives are what move capital.
MAR 18, 2026
MU announced a historic double beat — yet the stock sold off.
NOV 03, 2025
PLTR Q3 sales and profit beat estimates, raised annual revenue forecast for the 3rd time — yet the stock sold off.
OCT 29, 2024
GOOG beat on revenue and EPS, Cloud growth accelerated to 35% — yet the stock sold off on capex fears.
The Narrative Lifecycle
Slow emergence. Rapid acceleration. Eventual saturation. We model this as four stages — and track where each narrative sits right now.
A thesis forms. Early believers take positions. The market hasn't noticed. Asymmetric setups live here.
Institutional recognition. Earnings confirm the thesis. Momentum builds. The narrative catches fire.
Everyone knows the story. Valuations stretch. Easy money made. Smart money looks for the exit.
Growth decelerates. The narrative is “priced in.” Late entrants get trapped. Cycle resets.
The tradeable edge lives in the transitions.
Q1→Q2 for asymmetric longs.
Q3→Q4 for profit-taking & shorts.
Why narratives?
Most tradeable edges don’t come from earnings beats or chart patterns — they come from understanding which story the market is pricing and where that story sits in its lifecycle. We wrote a full breakdown of why.
Read the full thesisA weighted signal classifier ingests data from multiple independent sources, scores agreement and conviction, and flags when a narrative is ready to advance — or stall.
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How it works
We pull from multiple independent data sources — filings, flows, sentiment, positioning — to triangulate narrative momentum.
Each narrative is scored and assigned a Q-stage. Our classifier flags transitions — the moments that matter most for positioning.
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