Equities

Quality / Balance Sheet Agent

Tracks whether strong balance sheets, quality factors, and lower-volatility assets are being rewarded over fragile risk.

Utility

This agent must be runnable on its own and must produce evidence that supports a decision, an avoidance, or a confidence change.

Decisions Supported

quality preferenceiblunder avoidanceiposition sizingi

Questions Answered

Is quality being rewarded or ignored?i

Data Sources

Yahoo quality proxy basketiquality ETFsilow-volatility ETFsispeculative risk proxiesi

Current Run Market Data

Label	Symbol	Group	Price	Change	Change %	Status
QUAL	QUAL	quality	54.98	0.19	+0.35%	live
SPHQ	SPHQ	quality	81.36	0.28	+0.35%	live
USMV	USMV	defensive_quality	101.55	-0.20	-0.20%	live
VIG	VIG	dividend_quality	243.88	-0.38	-0.16%	live
IWM	IWM	smallcap_risk	273.84	2.86	+1.06%	live
ARKK	ARKK	speculative_risk	75.11	1.95	+2.67%	live
XBI	XBI	speculative_risk	151.74	3.34	+2.25%	live

Computed Signal

Name	Value	Regime	Confidence	Source	Observed
quality_balance_sheet_score	33.0	weak	100%	Yahoo chart endpoint	2026-11-06T19:32:59+00:00

Declared And Target Feeds

Source	Status	Current Run Data
Yahoo quality proxy basket	current run	7/7 observed rows attached below.
quality ETFs	target feed	Not used in the current run yet; listed as the permanent feed this agent should graduate to.
low-volatility ETFs	target feed	Not used in the current run yet; listed as the permanent feed this agent should graduate to.
speculative risk proxies	target feed	Not used in the current run yet; listed as the permanent feed this agent should graduate to.

Live Status

Quality/balance-sheet proxies average +0.08% versus speculative balance-sheet risk +1.99%.

Score

Warnings

• Fragile/speculative assets are leading quality; require extra margin-of-safety discipline.

Signals

Name	Value	Regime	Confidence	Source	Observed
quality_balance_sheet_score	33.0	weak	100%	Yahoo chart endpoint	2026-11-06T19:32:59+00:00