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Systematic Market Intelligence

Research, signals, portfolios — for global tech investing.

closelook.net is an independent intelligence and signal platform for global technology investing. It publishes proprietary frameworks, functional indices, regime monitors, live model portfolios and a real-time pattern-hit signal scanner. Closelook sits between a Bloomberg terminal and an investment newsletter — quant-desk methods packaged as a subscription for retail investors, boutique advisers and family offices.

Four layers, one flow: Pulse reads the market daily — what moved, what shifted, what matters. Signal scans instruments after every close and flags what deserves attention. Portfolios put it into practice — live reference portfolios, every position published, skin in the game. Predictions close the loop — structured forecasts scored on accuracy, not opinion.

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Composite temperature across 8 macro instruments · updated nightly.

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About closelook.net

Eight sections, one spine.

closelook.net is organised around eight connected sections — Pulse, Newsletter, Signal, Tracker, Intel, Lab, Portfolios and Predictions. Every section draws from the same data spine: the proprietary indices, the Money Temperature pipeline, the 51-pattern library and the cointegration monitor. Editorial contextualises moves; analysis produces the underlying scores; portfolios and predictions convert those scores into verifiable positions.

Pulse

A daily pre-market pulse — published 08:30 New York before Wall Street opens. One page summarises what moved, which thesis updated, and where the Money Temperature sits today. Short enough to read with coffee, specific enough to act on.

Newsletter

The long-form companion. Substack three times a week (Wed / Sat / Sun) plus three audience-specific LinkedIn newsletters. The newsletter is where framing, regime shifts and single-name theses get the room they deserve.

Signal

The live trade log — every Add, Reduce, Roll and Exit across the five Closelook model portfolios, with the reasoning in plain English. Weekly commentary sits below. In Phase 2 the Pattern-Scanner feed (51 proprietary patterns from the Directional Alpha framework) joins above the trade log.

Tracker

Five functional indices — Rubin Build-Out 100, HALO Growth 100, Euro-AI Sovereign 50, Agentic Winners 25, ABR Framework. Each index is rebuilt from role in the stack rather than SIC classification, recomputed nightly from its own Cloudflare worker, and exposed with a per-ticker detail page.

Intel

The frameworks and definitions that power everything else. 34 plain-English 101 entries (Money Temperature, Packaging Bottleneck, Capex Cliff, Sentinel Tickers), 20 glossary terms a quant desk would assume you know, and 14 deep-research reports on single themes.

Lab

Live dashboards fed by Cloudflare workers — the Money Temperature gauge across eight macro instruments, the Cointegration Monitor flagging pair-trading breaks, and the AW25 agentic-winners rotation. Each tool publishes its raw data so you can reconstruct the score.

Portfolios

Five live reference portfolios — Global Tech 50, AI Buildout, Hypergrowth, Global ETFs, Derivatives. Every position is visible daily, every change is logged. No opaque sleeves, no hidden bets; skin in the game, scored against the same benchmarks you would use.

Predictions ↗

Structured forecasts scored on accuracy, not opinion. Calls carry an entry price, an invalidation level and a horizon. The scoreboard is public — Predictions closes the loop between research, signal and outcome.

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Pulse · Editorial

Latest editorial

Three editorial cards that translate analysis into language: the Daily Pulse — a short pre-market summary of what moved and why, published 08:30 New York before the Wall Street open; the Weekly Signal — a Sunday-midnight trade call with full reasoning and invalidation; and On That Day in Markets — a twice-weekly finance-history quiz.

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Pulse · Newsletter

Newsletter family

The long-form companion to the site — Substack three times a week (Wed / Sat / Sun) plus three LinkedIn newsletters tailored to audience-specific frames: global stock markets, US stock markets, hypergrowth. Subscribe on the platform you already read.

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Signal · Live trade log

Latest trades

Every Add, Reduce, Roll and Exit across the five Closelook model portfolios — logged in real time with the reasoning in plain English. The Pattern-Scanner feed (51 proprietary patterns from the Directional Alpha framework) joins this page when the signal-ticker worker ships.

All trades & commentary →
  1. Added TSM AI Build-Out Feb 21

    Foundry thesis strengthening ahead of Rubin ramp.
  2. Reduced SNOW AI Build-Out Feb 21

    Trimming ahead of Feb 25 earnings.
  3. Rolled NET Hypergrowth Feb 20

    Rolled March $100 covered call to April $105.

Tracker · Indices

Functional indices

Proprietary indices built to uncover the narratives that drive markets beneath the surface — sector rotation, supply-chain shifts, smart-money positioning. Structured by function, not by SIC classification. Each index is recomputed nightly and evolves as the dominant themes change.

All indices →

Intel · Reads / 101 / Glossary

Frameworks and briefs

The substance layer: plain-English 101 entries that explain the concepts behind our signals, glossary terms a quant desk would assume you know, and deep-research briefs on single themes. Every scoring decision on the site traces back to a framework documented here.

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Lab · Quant dashboards

Lab status

Live quantitative dashboards — such as the Money Temperature gauge tracking macro regime shifts, the Cointegration Monitor flagging pair-trading breaks, and rotation trackers across our index families. Each tool publishes its raw data so you can reconstruct the score.

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Pattern Scanner mock

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NVDA support confluence · DAX cointegration break · Asia overnight pivot.

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AW25 · Agentic live

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Euro-AI sovereignty rotation dominant in AW25 basket.

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Portfolios · Model

Live model portfolios

Live reference portfolios spanning tech equities, thematic buildouts, global ETFs and derivatives. Every position is visible daily, every change is logged. Skin in the game, scored against the same benchmarks you would use — no opaque sleeves, no hidden bets.

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Predictions · Expert forecasts

Calibrated forecasts, not prediction markets.

Structured forecasts scored on accuracy, not opinion. Community, experts and AI each make their call — the scoreboard is public, the methodology transparent. Predictions closes the loop between intelligence, signal and outcome — it is where Closelook keeps itself honest.

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Invited experts forecast binary finance questions — FOMC decisions, earnings beats, macro moves, crypto levels. Scoring is Brier + log-loss, not cash. Runs on predictions.closelook.net with its own Cloudflare worker and D1 database. Metaculus model, finance-vertical focus. live

FAQ · Frequently asked

What Closelook is, in plain questions.

What is closelook.net?
closelook.net is an independent research and signal platform for global technology investing. It publishes proprietary frameworks, functional indices such as the Rubin Build-Out 100, HALO Growth 100 and Euro-AI Sovereign 50, a Money Temperature regime monitor, a cointegration dashboard, five live model portfolios and a real-time pattern-hit signal ticker. Closelook sits between a Bloomberg terminal and an investment newsletter — quant-desk methods packaged as a subscription for retail investors, boutique advisers and family offices.
Who is closelook.net for?
closelook.net is built for three audiences: clever retail investors who manage their own book, boutique advisers running client portfolios, and single or multi-family offices allocating across public tech equity. The common denominator is an investor who wants the transparency of systematic methods without the cost and complexity of a full trading desk. The site is in English with occasional German source material, and the tier structure is designed so that the free layer covers most self-directed users while paid tiers add real-time signals and deeper pattern detail.
What is the Money Temperature?
Money Temperature is a regime monitor computed daily from eight macro instruments — US and German yield curves, the DXY dollar index, gold, oil, copper, credit spreads and implied volatility. Each instrument is scored on trend, cointegration stability and cross-market consistency using Engle-Granger and Hurst statistics. The composite score lands on a 0–100 scale and is rendered as one of three states: 🟢 calm, 🟡 transition or 🔴 stress. The pipeline runs at 23:05 UTC on GitHub Actions and writes its output to a Cloudflare R2 bucket. Live dashboard: Money Temperature lab.
What are functional indices?
A functional index is a rules-based basket constructed around a specific economic function rather than a sector label. The Rubin Build-Out 100 tracks the equity expression of the AI data-centre build-out across 18 sub-sectors with a deliberate Asian weighting. HALO Growth 100 captures functional growth compounders across twelve sectors. Euro-AI Sovereign 50 isolates the European AI sovereignty theme. Because each index is constructed from a function rather than a market-cap float filter, the constituent list can cross traditional index boundaries and is rebalanced on disclosed rules.
How does the signal ticker work?
The signal ticker is an agentic feed. A Cloudflare worker scans the proprietary data sources — the Money Temperature output, the four functional indices, the cointegration monitor and a live pattern library of 51 directional-alpha patterns — every few minutes. When a pattern fires on an instrument in the Closelook universe, an Anthropic-powered agent composes a short signal bite with confidence, temperature context and index weight. Bites are written to Cloudflare KV, exposed via /api/signals, and rendered both as a scrolling strip and as a filterable feed.
How is closelook.net different from Bloomberg, Reuters or a typical newsletter?
Bloomberg and Reuters are horizontal — they cover everything at news-wire depth. Closelook is vertical: it covers one stack (global tech investing) with proprietary indices, proprietary patterns and its own regime models. A typical newsletter offers opinion without a data spine. Closelook offers both: every editorial piece links back to the data that justifies it, and every data view links forward to the editorial that contextualises it. Pricing reflects the positioning — a C+ Premier subscription at $89 per month sits between a newsletter and an institutional data contract.

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The full Closelook stack — live signals, functional indices, proprietary frameworks and the Money Temperature regime — in three tiers.