Prevents acting on price movement or narrative drift by declaring the operating regime using numeric thresholds and locking it for the period.
Prevents escalation on balance-sheet revisions unless physical flows confirm. Demand must validate structure or the system defaults to no change.
Prevents misreading flat price as tightness by evaluating carry, spreads, and storage incentives independently of price direction.
Prevents localized strength from being misinterpreted as systemic demand by testing basis behavior across a governed physical spine.
Prevents directional interpretation of positioning shifts by classifying execution vulnerability, not bias.
Prevents inference when data is missing, delayed, or contradictory. The system fails closed by design.
