🛢️ Commodities boom returns in 2024
18-24 months of underinvestment plus inventory restocking plus cash rotating out of treasuries as yields fall = commodities businesses have a killer 2024.
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CONVICTION
peaked 40.2 EMBER
EMBER
band
▲ LONG DBC
expression · bullish commodities
MISS
outcome · R +3.9% · α -23.1%
2025-01-06
window closed
⚖ Why this verdict
fully deterministic — evaluate.py replays this from daily closes; nothing below is editable or hand-set
- Window: 2024-01-06 → 2025-01-06 — first mention + 12-month horizon, then the window locks.
- The call: ▲ LONG DBC (primary play). DBC rose 3.9% over the window → direction-adjusted R = +3.9% (the call made money).
- Benchmark: holding SPY over the same window returned +27.1% → α = +3.9 − (+27.1) = -23.1% — what this call made or lost against just owning the index. This is the number the verdict uses.
- Rule fired:
· HIT — R ≥ +10% AND α ≥ +5· PARTIAL — R ≥ +5% OR α ≥ 0▶ MISS — everything else
- Credit: supporters of a MISS earn 0 each, opposers the inverse — this feeds the scoreboard weights. supported: Chamath, Friedberg
Conviction timeline
bands: green ≥ 65 · watch ≥ 45 · ember ≥ 15
Plays vs SPY · % since first mention (2024-01-06)
Plays
| expression | symbol | kind | relevance | rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▲ LONG | DBC | etf | PRIMARY | broad commodities basket — no specific commodity named |
Mention log
Friedberg
commodities w=0.75 · n=8
· E160 (2024-01-06) · annual_prediction · strength 2
▶ 20:36
SUPPORT
· horizon 12mo
“There's a big commodities boom that's coming back in 2024... a lot of underinvestment relative to demand over the past 18 to 24 months... rebuilding stockpiles and supplies... commodities businesses are going to see a killer 2024.”
Friedberg
commodities w=0.75 · n=8
· E172 (2024-03-29) · explicit_prediction · strength 2
▶ 1:12:21
SUPPORT
· horizon 2mo
“Cocoa has moved in price from about 2000 bucks a ton, which is where it normally trades at, to $10,000 a ton. ... They're talking about cutting the size of their chocolate bars, raising prices, and starting to use other ingredients. You'll start to see that happen in the shelves in the next couple of months. But this is the big news in the commodity markets right now, is this parabolic spike in cocoa prices.”
Who built this conviction
each voice's total force on the score — supports and opposes from every mention, weighted exactly as the replay applied them · share = % of all mention-driven movement
⏳ decay drained -47.9 over the idea's life — that's time passing, attributed to no one
Score events
| episode | kind | Δ | after | note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E160 2024-01-06 | init | +30.0 | 30.0 | E160 born by Friedberg (annual_prediction x2) [w=0.75] |
| E161 2024-01-13 | decay | -1.2 | 28.8 | E161 silent |
| E162 2024-01-19 | decay | -1.2 | 27.6 | E162 silent |
| E163 2024-01-26 | decay | -1.1 | 26.5 | E163 silent |
| E164 2024-02-02 | decay | -1.1 | 25.5 | E164 silent |
| E165 2024-02-09 | decay | -1.0 | 24.5 | E165 silent |
| E166 2024-02-16 | decay | -1.0 | 23.5 | E166 silent |
| E167 2024-02-23 | decay | -0.9 | 22.5 | E167 silent |
| E168 2024-03-01 | decay | -0.9 | 21.6 | E168 silent |
| E169 2024-03-08 | decay | -0.9 | 20.8 | E169 silent |
| E170 2024-03-15 | decay | -0.8 | 19.9 | E170 silent |
| E171 2024-03-22 | decay | -0.8 | 19.1 | E171 silent |
| E172 2024-03-29 | reinforce | +9.1 | 28.2 | E172 Friedberg support x2 [w=0.75] |
| E173 2024-04-05 | decay | -1.1 | 27.1 | E173 silent |
| E174 2024-04-12 | reinforce | +13.1 | 40.2 | E174 Chamath support x2 (new voice) [w=0.80] |
| E175 2024-04-19 | decay | -1.6 | 38.6 | E175 silent |
| E176 2024-04-26 | decay | -1.5 | 37.1 | E176 silent |
| E177 2024-05-03 | decay | -1.5 | 35.6 | E177 silent |
| E178 2024-05-10 | decay | -1.4 | 34.2 | E178 silent |
| E179 2024-05-17 | decay | -1.4 | 32.8 | E179 silent |
| E180 2024-05-24 | decay | -1.3 | 31.5 | E180 silent |
| E181 2024-05-31 | decay | -1.3 | 30.2 | E181 silent |
| E182 2024-06-07 | decay | -1.2 | 29.0 | E182 silent |
| E183 2024-06-14 | decay | -1.2 | 27.9 | E183 silent |
| E184 2024-06-20 | decay | -1.1 | 26.7 | E184 silent |
| E185 2024-06-29 | decay | -1.1 | 25.7 | E185 silent |
| E186 2024-07-04 | decay | -1.0 | 24.7 | E186 silent |
| E187 2024-07-12 | decay | -1.0 | 23.7 | E187 silent |
| E188 2024-07-19 | decay | -0.9 | 22.7 | E188 silent |
| E189 2024-07-26 | decay | -0.9 | 21.8 | E189 silent |
| E190 2024-08-02 | decay | -0.9 | 20.9 | E190 silent |
| E191 2024-08-09 | decay | -0.8 | 20.1 | E191 silent |
| E192 2024-08-16 | decay | -0.8 | 19.3 | E192 silent |
| E193 2024-08-23 | decay | -0.8 | 18.5 | E193 silent |
| E194 2024-08-30 | decay | -0.7 | 17.8 | E194 silent |
| E195 2024-09-06 | decay | -0.7 | 17.1 | E195 silent |
| E196 2024-09-20 | decay | -0.7 | 16.4 | E196 silent |
| E197 2024-09-27 | decay | -0.7 | 15.7 | E197 silent |
| E198 2024-10-03 | decay | -0.6 | 15.1 | E198 silent |
| E199 2024-10-11 | decay | -0.6 | 14.5 | E199 silent |
| E200 2024-10-18 | decay | -0.6 | 13.9 | E200 silent |
| E201 2024-10-25 | reinforce | +10.3 | 24.2 | E201 Chamath support x2 [w=0.80] |
| E201 2024-10-25 | reinforce | +10.2 | 34.5 | E201 Friedberg support x3 [w=0.75] |
| E202 2024-11-01 | decay | -1.4 | 33.1 | E202 silent |
| E203 2024-11-08 | decay | -1.3 | 31.8 | E203 silent |
| E204 2024-11-16 | decay | -1.3 | 30.5 | E204 silent |
| E205 2024-11-23 | decay | -1.2 | 29.3 | E205 silent |
| E206 2024-12-07 | decay | -1.2 | 28.1 | E206 silent |
| E207 2024-12-13 | decay | -1.1 | 27.0 | E207 silent |
| E208 2024-12-20 | decay | -1.1 | 25.9 | E208 silent |
| E209 2025-01-04 | decay | -1.0 | 24.9 | E209 silent |