Data, forecasts & evidence

Turn real observations into better questions.

Explore market and public databases, compare forecast ranges, and ask Scout about the saved evidence.

Ask a better forecast question.

Scout sits below each completed forecast. Explore the median, historical highs and lows, or source and model evidence. Add chart notes and reopen saved conversations in Requests.

From forecasts to portfolio evidence

Define a trading rule, size positions and review costs, equity and drawdown. Export SPY share research or FTMO lot signals with timestamp receipts. Historical simulations remain separate from a live track record.

Portfolio evidence guide

Economic & public databases

Explore BigQuery public datasets, World Bank indicators and U.S. Treasury series. Download observations or forecast a selected series.

Search an economic indicator to select its series.

1. Prepare the Canvas dataset

  • Use Historical Data for chronological Alpaca equity bars or Dukascopy instruments.
  • Use Sports Forecasting for Polymarket US MLB pregame one-minute datasets.
  • Map a text item ID, datetime timestamp, and numeric target column.
  • Keep observations regular; distinguish missing values from genuine zeroes.

2. Build and return predictions

  • Configure target, item ID, timestamp, forecast length, and up to five forecast quantiles in Canvas.
  • Compare Quick and Standard builds using Average wQL, WAPE, RMSE, MAPE, and MASE.
  • Upload the Canvas prediction CSV to Forecast Foundry for P10/P50/P90 analysis.
  • Review anomalies, scenarios, uncertainty, alerts, and saved runs in the private workspace.
Research tools

Choose your next step

Historical Data

Download observed history from Alpaca, Dukascopy, or supported market sources.

Forecast Foundry

Upload predictions and inspect their ranges and anomalies.

Quantura Forecast

Compare models and forecast quantiles with the observed history.

Screener

Filter markets by price relative to a forecast quantile.

Sports Forecasting

Review Kalshi and Polymarket game forecasts before kickoff.

AWS / SageMaker

Connect your AWS account to run SageMaker jobs.

Research Notes

Open Blueprint
Market Intelligence

Foundations and baselines

Reference setup for naive, moving-average, and classical models before introducing advanced architectures.

Open note
Market Intelligence

Modern multi-horizon models

Design for direct multi-horizon outputs with explainability hooks suitable for operations and revenue teams.

Open note
Market Intelligence

Evaluation and leakage controls

Walk-forward validation standards with leakage checks, confidence calibration, and error decomposition.

Open note
Market Intelligence

Canvas metrics and quantiles

How SageMaker Canvas evaluates time-series forecasts and how Quantura preserves P10/P50/P90 as a distribution.

Open note
Market Intelligence

Demand inflection signals

How to derive acceleration, surprise, and regime features from forecast trajectories.

Open note
MLOps

CI/CD and continuous training

Pipeline standards for training automation, validation checks, deployment control, and rollback.

Open note
MLOps

Validation and monitoring

Data quality, feature integrity, drift/skew dashboards, and policy-based retraining triggers.

Open note
MLOps

Experiments, registry, lineage

Tracking conventions that connect datasets, code versions, model artifacts, and production outcomes.

Open note
Foundations: Baselines and classical models

Start with naive and seasonal-naive baselines, then move into moving averages and ARIMA/ETS. This gives a stable benchmark before adding modern architectures that can hide failure modes.

Further Reading

Modern forecasting: Multi-horizon and interpretable deep models

Train models to emit full forward paths, not single points. Pair sequence encoders with interpretable attention and feature importance so commercial stakeholders can audit forecast drivers.

Further Reading

Evaluation: Rolling validation and leakage controls

Use rolling windows with strict time ordering, then report point and interval metrics side by side. Validate that feature snapshots and joins do not leak future information into training or evaluation windows.

Further Reading

SageMaker Canvas metrics and Quantura quantile review

SageMaker Canvas reports advanced time-series metrics including Average wQL, WAPE, RMSE, MAPE, and MASE. These measurements describe different error characteristics; no single score replaces inspection of the forecast horizon and quantile calibration.

  • Average wQL summarizes accuracy across forecast quantiles; lower is better for the evaluated data.
  • WAPE normalizes aggregate absolute error by the observed target total.
  • RMSE emphasizes larger misses; MAPE expresses mean percentage error where its denominator is meaningful.
  • MASE compares absolute error with a simple baseline; values below one are estimated to outperform that baseline.
  • Canvas accepts up to five comma-separated quantiles for a time-series model.

Quantura treats P10 as a lower scenario, P50 as the median/base scenario, and P90 as an upper scenario. It never collapses the distribution into a guaranteed point target. Uploaded rows are date-aware and retain the model's supplied boundaries.

Further Reading

Signal engineering: Demand inflection features

Convert forecast curves into actionable features: first and second derivative (delta, acceleration), surprise versus realized values, and regime filters that suppress low-confidence transitions.

Further Reading

MLOps: CI/CD and continuous training

Treat model updates as software releases with deterministic builds, test gates, staged promotion, and automated rollback triggers for unstable live performance.

Further Reading

MLOps: Data validation and model monitoring

Monitor feature distributions, input quality, prediction drift, and business KPIs together. Trigger retraining only when quality gates or drift thresholds are breached.

Further Reading

MLOps: Experiment tracking, registry, lineage

Every model should be reproducible from data snapshot to deployment hash. Link experiment IDs to model registry entries and keep inference lineage for governance and postmortem debugging.

Further Reading

Prospective event intelligence

Quantura Forecasts methodology and enterprise API

Quantura Forecasts begins with a formal unresolved question, a defined evidence cutoff, and an objective resolution rule. A possible future headline is a human-readable scenario—not a claim that the event occurred. Published probabilities are preserved as an append-only trajectory and resolved probabilities are evaluated against observed event frequencies.

Before publication

Reviewers validate the proposition, deadline, primary resolution source, political-safety rules, and point-in-time evidence.

After publication

New information creates a probability revision. It never replaces the initial snapshot or earlier revisions.

At resolution

Category-specific structured resolvers use authoritative evidence. Conflicts become disputed records instead of forced outcomes.

Enterprise access

Versioned endpoints use hashed, scoped, revocable API keys, cursor pagination, per-key rate limits, and redacted projections that exclude private strategy fields.

API resources are served under /api/v1. Available scopes separate current records, probability history, resolutions, bulk trajectories, and administration. Authentication credentials belong in request headers and are never accepted in URLs.

Blueprint: Quantura + SageMaker Canvas

Keep data acquisition, AWS model building, prediction review, and notifications as explicit stages with auditable handoffs.

Quantura CSV
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S3 / Canvas
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Canvas Build
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Quantile Export
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Foundry Analysis
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Alerts / Review

AWS compute charges remain separate from Quantura platform charges and are billed by AWS to the connected account when resources run there.