The StratLab Daily
No. 6 · Tuesday 24 Feb 2026 · NSE, data through close
Redesign v5 · One-thesis + Market Health · Real data

Risk jumped 2 tiers to Elevated.

NIFTY −1.12% to 25,425. A multi-tier risk move in one session is rare — the engine's five-tier scale rarely skips a step.

What happenedNIFTY −1.12% to 25,425. Risk jumped 2 tiers to Elevated.
The tensionMarket Health is Healthy Uptrend at Elevated risk, 40th percentile.
Net readConditions broadly line up with the move.
Nifty Close
25,424.65
−1.12%
Market Phase
🟢 Healthy Uptrend
session 1 · → stable
MHI
61.16
40th %ile
Risk
Elevated
confidence 55
FII Idx Fut
−106.1K
68.4th %ile
Walls
25.4–25.4K
PE base · CE wall
01 The crowd

Risk jumped 2 tiers to Elevated.

Positioning over the last 20 sessions
FII net index futures · 20 sessions · '000 contracts · endpoint = 24 Feb · source: StratLab participant OI
What this means: A multi-tier risk move in one session is rare — the engine's five-tier scale rarely skips a step.
02 The turn

What changed today

What this means: Low → Elevated · confidence 55
03 The catch

Market Health reads Healthy Uptrend

Market health over the last 20 sessions
Market Health Index · 20 sessions · 0–100 · endpoint = 24 Feb · percentiles vs 1,149 sessions
What this means: the internals broadly agree with today's move.
Phase
🟢 Healthy Uptrend
risk Elevated
Participation
61.167
delivery breadth
StratLab Breadth Index
49.2
48th %ile, trailing year
04 Days like today

18 sessions like this one.

Every session sharing today's Market Health signature — healthy uptrend, Elevated risk — 18 of them on record.
Conditions analog · Phase + Trend + Risk match
n = 18 · tier: exact
HorizonAvgMedianWin rateWorst
Next session−0.01%+0.16%61%−1.53%
Next 5 sessions+0.48%+0.34%61%−1.54%
Next 10 sessions+0.45%+0.27%50%−5.36%
Next 20 sessions+1.76%+1.95%78%−7.49%
This compares today against every session sharing the same Market Health signature, regardless of what triggered it.

Conditions like today historically favored staying with the move.

05 Tomorrow's tripwires

Three checks that settle the argument

Market Phase exits upward
Healthy Uptrend runs a median of 1 session(s) (max 7) — this is session 1. 53% of exits went up.
Market Health crosses the 50 midline
MHI at 61.2 — a close back above 50 would end the 40th-percentile read.
Phase slips to Bear Market
0.0% of Healthy Uptrend exits went straight to Bear — the conditions analog's worst 5-session outcome (−1.54%) lives on that path.
The ledger

Where that leaves us

Lines up bullish
  • Risk jumped 2 tiers to Elevated.
Lines up bearish
  • Market Health 40th percentile · Elevated risk
  • Conditions analog: +0.48% avg next 5 · 61% win

Net read: Conditions broadly line up with the move.

Risk jumped 2 tiers to Elevated. Conditions broadly line up with the move.

Regime