CRASHBOARD (education / entertainment, NOT financial advice)

Financial conditions today

Crashboard scores thirty-four public indicators of financial stress and ranks the result against twenty-eight years of record. This is what it reads right now. It describes conditions as they are measured, not what happens next.

Conditions Now · 15 September 2026

Normal range

+0.104
weighted score, −1 to +1
+0.6σ
against 7,489 days of record
64%
of the record was more stressed
17
indicators reporting

What is moving it

The five largest pushes on the reading above, signed: positive is calming, negative is straining. Every indicator behind the number is in the app, free.

IndicatorContribution
Fuel & Refining+0.22
Job Losses+0.21
Overnight Funding+0.17
Haven Demand−0.17
Credit & Leverage+0.17

Around the world

The Office of Financial Research's stress index, split into the three regions that sum to it. This is not our number: it is an independent index, shown as published. "% calm" is how much of its own record ran more stressed than today.

RegionIndex1 moσ% calm
United States−1.30+0.06−0.7483%
Other advanced−0.60+0.22−0.2853%
Emerging markets−0.55−0.01−1.1288%

OFR global stress index by region, data through 11 September 2026. Posted daily, two business days behind.

Conditions Ahead

Crashboard's second reading measures pressure building rather than damage arrived, from a separate set of indicators. It is not published here. It is in the app, with its own indicator panel and its whole record, on the subscription.

How the two readings differ

Reading for 15 September 2026, published here on 15 September 2026. Rebuilt automatically whenever new data publishes, three times every weekday.

Important

Crashboard is provided for educational and entertainment purposes only. It is not financial, investment, tax or legal advice, and it is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any security or other asset.

Nothing here is personalised to your circumstances. The author is not a licensed financial adviser, broker or investment professional. Consult a qualified professional before making any financial decision.

The readings are one opinionated model built from public data. That data may be delayed, revised, incomplete or wrong, and the model may be wrong even when the data is right. The readings describe conditions as they are measured now and rank them against the record. Past readings are not indicative of future results, and no reading is a forecast.

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