Friday 7 August 2026
The daily quant publication
QuantNow publishes exceptions, not tables. Every item must cross a fixed statistical threshold and survive source-level quality checks before it reaches this page.
Today's brief
0 exceptions
No threshold crossings
None of the monitored power indicators cleared both the significance and data-quality gates. We will not manufacture a headline to fill the page.
Launch research
We watch continuously, but publish only the observations that break from their own history.
01
Regional premium
North and West ERCOT hubs measured against Houston and South, scored on first-published history.
02
System pressure
Actual ERCOT demand translated into a trailing percentile, with source reconciliation before publication.
03
Positioning
Managed-money futures positioning compared only within the consistent post-2010 CFTC taxonomy.
The method
Every source response lands immutably before parsing. Units, timestamps, gaps, staleness, and extreme values are checked before an indicator can be scored. EIA and ERCOT load are reconciled independently.
Statistics use the first value available at the time, not a revised value substituted later. Each published item freezes its input vintages, score, and methodology.