Methodology

How the models are built, tested, and interpreted.

AstravaQuant uses systematic frameworks designed to convert market data into repeatable measurements of trend, liquidity, valuation, and regime.

The objective is not to predict every market movement. The objective is to define market conditions consistently and evaluate how those definitions have behaved historically.

Trend

01 / Trend Following

Trend

The current public trend stack consists of a five-day medium-term model and a weekly long-term model. Both use shared regime bands on a normalized `-1.00` to `+1.00` scale.

02 / Mortgage Rate Pressure

Mortgage Rate Pressure

MRPI is a separate weekly system anchored to the 10-year Treasury backdrop. Its five published regimes run from Strong Tightening through Neutral to Strong Easing.

03 / Valuation

Valuation

The current valuation system averages 17 standardized input readings across fundamental, technical, and sentiment categories. The app publishes the workbook score without converting it into a dollar target.

Backtesting.

AstravaQuant evaluates historical behavior using dated score observations that already exist in the published workbooks. The public app does not fabricate return series, fill missing dates, or imply live track records from hypothetical simulations.

Methodology changelog

AQ Core v0.3 September 3, 2026

Added read-only MRPI workbook ingestion, six-criterion verification, dated MRPI history, and public tightening versus easing publication.

AQ Core v0.2 September 2, 2026

Added read-only Google Sheets ingestion, automated Medium-Term Trend and Long-Term Trend publication, relative-strength normalization, and dated score diagnostics.

AQ Core v0.1 August 10, 2026

Initial public methodology release covering Medium-Term Trend, Long-Term Trend, MRPI, interpretation scales, and the manual fallback snapshot.

Preserve prior methodology.

Material methodology changes should create a new version entry rather than silently rewriting the past. Prior versions remain part of the research record.

Release discipline Every material input, threshold, interpretation, or model-version change is recorded here before the revised framework is published.