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Catena Capital · May 9, 2026

Macro Liquidity Wave System – Analytical Report

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The chart system shown in the screenshots is a multi-factor macro-liquidity forecasting and regime-detection framework designed primarily to model and anticipate:

  • Bitcoin cyclical peaks and bottoms

  • Equity liquidity sensitivity

  • Credit/liquidity stress transitions

  • Treasury refinancing pressure

  • QE / stealth QE transmission effects

  • Macro risk-on / risk-off transitions

The underlying script integrates liquidity, volatility, debt rollover requirements, credit impulse data, and macro risk metrics into a blended probabilistic forecasting system.

The framework attempts to answer:

“Where is systemic liquidity flowing, how strong is it, and which assets are likely to respond next?”

The model is effectively treating:

  • liquidity as the primary fuel source,

  • volatility as a suppressor/amplifier,

  • debt refinancing as future liquidity demand,

  • and Bitcoin/equities as downstream liquidity expressions.

The system combines:

  • Global liquidity

  • Stealth QE

  • Yield Curve Control pressure

  • China Credit Impulse

  • Treasury debt rollover requirements

  • MOVE volatility conditions

  • Global risk appetite

into dynamic wave structures.

Derived from:

  • Global liquidity

  • Shadow monetary base

  • Smoothed yearly liquidity impulse

  • MOVE-index-adjusted liquidity acceleration

The script:

  1. Calculates YoY liquidity growth

  2. Applies volatility dampening via MOVE Index

  3. Uses EMA smoothing layers

  4. Converts into normalized z-score wave structures

This is the system’s:

  • primary macro liquidity pulse,

  • central bank balance sheet expansion effect,

  • broad global monetary expansion signal.

The Liquidity Wave tends to:

  • lead BTC major rallies,

  • align with broad risk-on conditions,

  • deteriorate before liquidity contractions.

The forecast region into:

  • 2027–2031

shows:

  • flattening,

  • reduced acceleration,

  • lower liquidity expansion velocity,

  • slower cyclical growth conditions.

That implies:

  • weaker speculative liquidity,

  • slower BTC upside velocity,

  • potentially longer consolidation structures.

Built from:

  • Treasury issuance effects,

  • stealth liquidity injection,

  • QE-like Treasury refinancing mechanics,

  • debt rollover liquidity gaps.

The model assumes:

Debt refinancing pressure eventually forces liquidity creation.

This becomes a synthetic QE pressure wave.

This wave is effectively:

  • Treasury QE necessity,

  • hidden balance sheet expansion,

  • refinancing stress response.

The system projects it dynamically into the future.

This wave:

  • aligned extremely well with the 2020–2021 BTC expansion,

  • anticipated several liquidity accelerations,

  • remained elevated during Treasury-heavy refinancing periods.

The system is projecting:

  • continued Treasury liquidity requirements,

  • periodic liquidity injections,

  • but with declining effectiveness after ~2028.

That implies:

  • liquidity may continue being injected,

  • but diminishing marginal asset impact may occur.

This resembles late-cycle debt saturation behavior.

Derived from:

  • China-Bloomberg-Credit-Impulse-Index

  • shifted forward by +9 months

The script intentionally:

  • shifts China credit conditions forward,

  • because Chinese credit expansion historically impacts global liquidity later.

This acts as:

  • global manufacturing/liquidity forward impulse,

  • emerging-market credit expansion signal,

  • global cyclical reflation indicator.

The chart suggests:

  • China impulse often precedes BTC acceleration,

  • aligns strongly with cyclical bottoms,

  • influences reflation trades globally.

The forward curve shows:

  • weakening impulse strength,

  • flattening credit expansion,

  • less aggressive future reflation.

That implies:

  • weaker commodity reflation,

  • lower global manufacturing acceleration,

  • slower speculative expansion cycles.

The most important system component.

This dynamically combines:

  • Liquidity Wave

  • Stealth QE

  • YCC Wave

  • Debt-Liquidity Wave

  • China Credit Impulse

  • Risk-Love influence

using:

  • dominance weighting,

  • rolling momentum influence,

  • volatility-adjusted weighting.

The weighting changes dynamically depending on:

  • which liquidity source dominates at the time.

This is the:

  • master macro liquidity composite,

  • system-wide probabilistic cycle indicator,

  • highest-confidence liquidity forecast engine.

The Blended Wave:

  • closely tracked BTC macro cycles,

  • aligned with major cycle peaks/bottoms,

  • anticipated broad liquidity transitions.

It appears strongest during:

  • synchronized liquidity expansion environments.

The blended projection suggests:

  • post-2026 liquidity deceleration,

  • weakening cyclical upside,

  • liquidity normalization into 2028–2030,

  • potential transition into slower macro growth regime.

The wave flattening implies:

  • reduced excess liquidity,

  • weaker speculative excess,

  • more range-bound macro behavior.

Built from:

  • Global-RiskLove-Composite

  • MOVE Index suppression adjustments

Then inverted.

This measures:

  • macro risk appetite deterioration,

  • stress-sensitive positioning,

  • crowd risk aversion.

It:

  • often peaks near BTC tops,

  • weakens during liquidity contractions,

  • helps identify risk-off transitions.

The system suggests:

  • elevated but unstable risk appetite,

  • increasing fragility,

  • potential volatility-sensitive environment ahead.

This is one of the most advanced parts of the system.

The script:

  • models Treasury rollover obligations,

  • projects refinancing requirements,

  • estimates required liquidity stock,

  • compares required liquidity vs existing liquidity.

The model assumes:

Debt requires liquidity expansion to remain serviceable.

  • Treasury Bills

  • Notes

  • Bonds

  • rollover cycles

  • interest burden growth

  • Fed liquidity capacity

This wave measures:

  • future liquidity necessity,

  • systemic refinancing pressure,

  • probability of forced QE/Treasury support.

The charts suggest:

  • structurally rising liquidity requirements,

  • ongoing refinancing dependency,

  • continued pressure toward stealth QE.

This is effectively a:

debt sustainability stress indicator.

Represents:

  • Yield Curve Control pressure,

  • bond market stress,

  • suppression requirements on long-term rates.

It reflects:

  • interest-rate suppression necessity,

  • sovereign debt stress,

  • policy intervention pressure.

YCC conditions:

  • aligned with macro stress periods,

  • often preceded liquidity injections.

The system implies:

  • ongoing structural rate suppression pressure,

  • but weakening cyclical influence relative to prior years.

The framework is heavily BTC-centric.

The script:

  • computes rolling correlations,

  • directional hit rates,

  • turning-point hit rates,

  • lead/lag structures.

It attempts to identify:

  • which wave currently dominates BTC.

The top-left diagnostics panel:

  • “Impact winner”

  • “Peak driver”

  • “Bottom driver”

shows:

  • which liquidity engine currently has strongest predictive influence.

In the screenshots:

  • Stealth QE Wave dominates.

This implies:

  • BTC is currently more responsive to Treasury/liquidity-gap mechanics
    than traditional liquidity expansion.

The system overlays:

  • SP500 12m change

  • NASDAQ 12m change

  • Russell 2000 12m change

to compare:

  • liquidity transmission into equities.

Tracks:

  • blended liquidity conditions relatively closely,

  • especially during low-volatility expansion regimes.

Appears:

  • more sensitive to liquidity acceleration,

  • stronger during QE expansion phases,

  • more correlated with speculative liquidity.

The Russell shift (+5 months) suggests:

  • small caps lag liquidity conditions,

  • delayed transmission into domestic risk assets.

This is consistent with:

  • liquidity first reaching large-cap/speculative assets,

  • then filtering into broader domestic equity markets later.

The MOVE Index is critical.

The script uses it as:

  • volatility suppression coefficient,

  • liquidity effectiveness dampener.

High MOVE:

  • reduces liquidity effectiveness,

  • suppresses macro wave expansion.

Low MOVE:

  • amplifies liquidity impact,

  • enhances speculative responsiveness.

This is important because:

liquidity alone does not move markets equally under all volatility regimes.

The system projects:

  • debt rollover needs,

  • Treasury issuance structures,

  • refinancing composition,

  • future liquidity gaps,

  • QE necessity.

The model assumes:

  • debt compounds,

  • refinancing creates liquidity dependency,

  • Treasury issuance structure changes future macro liquidity sensitivity.

This creates:

  • projected future liquidity waves into the 2030s.

The chart system overall suggests:

  • massive synchronized liquidity expansion,

  • strong QE + stealth QE alignment,

  • powerful BTC/equity reflation.

  • liquidity contraction,

  • rising volatility,

  • risk-off macro regime,

  • BTC collapse alignment.

  • stealth QE and Treasury liquidity increasingly dominant,

  • liquidity support returns,

  • speculative assets stabilize/recover.

The system projects:

  • slowing liquidity acceleration,

  • structurally persistent refinancing pressure,

  • continued need for stealth liquidity support,

  • but declining marginal speculative effect.

That implies:

  • slower BTC cycle velocity,

  • more muted equity upside,

  • liquidity dependency without explosive expansion.

The architecture is attempting to build:

  • a macro-liquidity operating system,

  • a dynamic market regime engine,

  • a liquidity-to-asset transmission framework,

  • a probabilistic cycle forecaster.

It combines:

  • monetary expansion,

  • debt mechanics,

  • volatility,

  • credit expansion,

  • Treasury refinancing,

  • and risk appetite

into a unified macro wave framework.

The system is effectively treating:

Bitcoin and equities as downstream reflections of global liquidity physics.

Script open-sourced here.

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