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Gate Pressure & Compression · Dwell / Velocity / Squeeze

Dwell, transition velocity, and squeeze depth.

How MARS uses this

Six structural inputs are scored monthly into a composite, and the composite maps onto the regime ladder. MARS reads results in context: the same numbers mean different things earned in Expansion tailwind versus survived through Instability, and posture is adjusted to the regime rather than to the last trade.

How it benefits you

You know whether the environment is friendly or hostile to your system before deciding what recent results mean. Confidence stops being borrowed from lucky months, defensive posture arrives before damage instead of after it, and monthly review gains a one-glance structural summary.

EXPANSIONBALANCEDTRANSITIONALCOMPRESSIONINSTABILITYDRAWDOWN CTRLJFMAMJJASONDcomposite score (−12…+12) → monthly main regime

Twelve months classified across the regime ladder - the system's own weather record, from Expansion down toward Drawdown Control.

The three reads

Dwell, transition velocity, and squeeze depth.

Pressure is read three ways: dwell (how long the system sits in each gate versus the benchmark expectation), transition velocity (how quickly it moves between gates — rapid oscillation is instability even when average depth looks fine), and squeeze depth (how far authorized deployment sits below full-ladder capacity, and for how long).

  • Chronic mild compression is the stealth finding: no single alarming week, but months of capped authority quietly cutting compounding.
  • Gate oscillation between Growth and Recovery flags edge-of-band operation — one bad cycle from a real regime change.
  • Pressure trends feed the monthly Regime Engine read, where they become part of the composite score.

Where it lives

Inside Gate Pressure & Compression.

This page expands one card of the Gate Pressure & Compression page into its own reference. For orientation, the module's own framing: Gate pressure tracks how often and how hard the system approaches defensive states; compression tracks how tightly risk authority is being squeezed relative to full capacity. Together they reveal capital stress before it becomes a gate transition.

The composite read

Any one of the three can be innocent. Together they convict.

Long dwell in lower gates can be prudence; fast transitions can be volatility; deep squeeze can be one bad cluster. The metric earns its keep when the three move together — extended dwell plus rising transition velocity plus deepening squeeze is the specific signature of a system losing its footing, and no single component shows it.

Doctrine

Connected inside MARS

This module doesn't work alone.

Connected — 01

Gate Pressure & Compression (full page)

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Go deeper

Operator briefs on this territory.

Deep dive — 01

Dwell, velocity, squeeze: how long, how often, how hard.

How long it stayed, how often it moved, how hard it was squeezed. Three questions, three answers, no substitutes.

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Deep dive — 02

Nothing in the gate ladder fires for duration — which is why dwell is measured.

Every gate threshold is a depth threshold. The shallow grind that lasts a quarter trips none of them.

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Deep dive — 03

Pressure score: how heavy the month actually was, weighted four ways.

Average DD 40%, max DD 30%, spikes 20%, compression 10% — the month's load, scored to 100.

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