The StratLab Daily
No. 95 · Thursday 9 Jul 2026 · NSE, data through close
Redesign v5 · One-thesis + Market Health · Real data

Market Health just moved from Bear Market to Recovery.

NIFTY +0.34% to 23,963. A phase transition means the health engine's six-state read of market conditions changed today, not just the index price.

What happenedNIFTY +0.34% to 23,963. Market Health just moved from Bear Market to Recovery.
The tensionMarket Health is Recovery at High risk, 32nd percentile.
Net readConditions broadly line up with the move.
Nifty Close
23,962.80
+0.34%
Market Phase
🟡 Recovery
session 1 · ↑ recovering
MHI
52.83
32nd %ile
Risk
High
confidence 45
FII Idx Fut
−266.3K
4.1th %ile
Walls
23.9–24.0K
PE base · CE wall
01 The crowd

Market Health just moved from Bear Market to Recovery.

Positioning over the last 20 sessions
FII net index futures · 20 sessions · '000 contracts · endpoint = 9 Jul · source: StratLab participant OI
What this means: A phase transition means the health engine's six-state read of market conditions changed today, not just the index price.
02 The turn

What changed today

What this means: Bear Market → Recovery · MHI 25.6 → 52.8
03 The catch

Market Health reads Recovery

Market health over the last 20 sessions
Market Health Index · 20 sessions · 0–100 · endpoint = 9 Jul · percentiles vs 1,236 sessions
What this means: the internals broadly agree with today's move.
Phase
🟡 Recovery
risk High
Participation
44.2886
delivery breadth
StratLab Breadth Index
47.7
52th %ile, trailing year
04 Days like today

17 sessions like this one.

Every session sharing today's Market Health signature — recovery, High risk — 17 of them on record.
Conditions analog · Phase + Trend + Risk match
n = 17 · tier: exact
HorizonAvgMedianWin rateWorst
Next session+0.09%+0.13%53%−1.18%
Next 5 sessions+0.44%+0.66%59%−3.04%
Next 10 sessions+0.44%+1.42%59%−6.01%
Next 20 sessions+0.48%+0.77%65%−6.83%
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
Recovery runs a median of 1 session(s) (max 3) — this is session 1. 38% of exits went up.
Market Health crosses the 50 midline
MHI at 52.8 — a close back above 50 would end the 32nd-percentile read.
Phase slips to Bear Market
13.8% of Recovery exits went straight to Bear — the conditions analog's worst 5-session outcome (−3.04%) lives on that path.
The ledger

Where that leaves us

Lines up bullish
  • Market Health just moved from Bear Market to Recovery.
Lines up bearish
  • Market Health 32nd percentile · High risk
  • Conditions analog: +0.44% avg next 5 · 59% win

Net read: Conditions broadly line up with the move.

Market Health just moved from Bear Market to Recovery. Conditions broadly line up with the move.

Regime