Independent Research · Est. by retail, for retail Scored every trading day
Cliff Radar Capital, LLC
Downside Risk Protection · The People's Risk Desk
The People's Risk Desk · Est. by retail, for retail

We didn't trust Wall Street with our money. So we built our own radar.

Institutions pay millions for macro regime models, exhaustion signals, and universe-wide scoring — and retail gets the headline after the damage is done. We're retail investors who refused to accept that. Our engine reads the economy first, then scores 836 names across 161 themes, every trading day — hunting the cliff edge before the market finds it for you.

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836 names · 161 themes
36 macro indicators, scored daily
Built for us. Shared with you.

This isn't a product someone dreamed up to sell to retail. It's the risk desk we built to protect our own capital from macro risk — every model, every score, every stop. Our money runs through this machine first. Then, every morning, we hand you the same radar screen we're looking at.

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Why this exists
Nobody was coming to warn us

Every drawdown taught us the same lesson: nobody was coming to warn us.

01 · The wound

We rode markets over the edge like everyone else — fully invested at the top, reading about the regime change in the news, after the fall. The institutions? They got the phone call. They had risk desks. We had headlines and hope.

02 · The build

So we built what we couldn't buy: a macro engine scoring 36 economic indicators into one regime read, nine crisis tripwires, and a scoring core that grades every stock on momentum, value, and exhaustion — the pillar designed to fire before a breakdown shows in price.

03 · The share

It worked well enough that keeping it to ourselves felt wrong. Retail can't afford institutional protection — so we priced ours like a streaming subscription and published the entire architecture. No black box. No guru. Just the machine, daily.

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What we do
Regime first · Stocks second · Exhaustion always

Regime first. Stocks second. Exhaustion always.

One direction, four stages: the economy gets scored before a single ticker is considered, and every stock gets graded inside that weather.

Stage 1 · Signal
EMP

Edge Market Pulse scores the economy across 36 indicators and prints one of 8 regime bands.

Stage 2 · Map
PAM

The regime becomes a risk budget: how much invested, how much cash — before any stock picking.

Stage 3 · Eyes
BSM

One trusted snapshot: the full universe, 17 technical signals per name, hard gates against stale data.

Stage 4 · Triggers
BAM · CAM

Two selection models — disciplined and conviction — fill the budget with individually scored names.

MMomentum · /20

Is it moving with conviction?

Trend, volume expansion, slope structure. Finds the strong names — entry quality.

VValue · /13

Is it cheap against its own theme?

Relative strength and base position. Times the entry — asymmetry over hype.

QExhaustion · /17

Rested — or running on fumes?

The early-warning pillar, built to fire before the breakdown shows in price. Downside protection isn't a slogan here; it's a third of the score.

See the full architecture — nothing is hidden →

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Not a mockup — real output, from a real run
Pipeline run · June 30, 2026

Actual Sector Radar values from the June 30, 2026 pipeline run (EMP 479.9/760 · regime: Take Profits). Click a sector.

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Go deeper — pick your door
Five entries
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Why you can trust it — trust isn't claimed, it's structured
Four guardrails
Our capital goes first.

The pipeline was built to protect our own money, and it still does — every score you read is one we act on ourselves. Alignment, disclosed.

The architecture is public.

Every stage, every pillar, every guardrail is documented on The System page. If a research shop won't show you the machine, ask why.

Losers stay on the record.

Scores are dated, archived, and never quietly rewritten. A warning system you can't audit is just marketing. See the record →

No hype, by design.

Impersonal model output, plain-English narration, and disclaimers on every page. We'd rather under-promise than manage your disappointment.

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The bottom line

You can't afford an institutional risk desk.
Good. Neither could we.

Start free. Read the radar for a while. Upgrade when it earns your trust — that's the only way we'd want it.

Want proof before you even sign up? Read the latest Weekly Radar issue →