Strategy and Tactics

This is the 2026 Annual Scenario Planner map for the Risk Markets — the intangibles. It went to subscribers before the year began. It called the February 10, 2026 peak. It called the late-May end of the rotational buoyancy. What it shows from here: a bear market straight through year-end, with the change-of-trend windows already mapped — mid-August, mid-September, mid-October, mid-November.

You saw that top coming.

You read the work — the structure, the timing window, the volatility expansion. And then you didn't pull the trigger. Now the move you called is paying someone else.

That's the trap. Not a market trap — a psychological one. The one that got away becomes more important than the one that's setting up right now.