1880Q

Frontier ground, precision instrument.

Crested Butte, CO · est. 1880

Investment research from the numbers — not the headlines.

1880Q is a quantitative research desk for individual investors. It reads a stock the way a quant desk does: from the filed statements, the tape and the options market, scored on one 0–100 scale, with the dissent written down next to the score. No narrative, no hot takes — a precision instrument on frontier ground.

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What 1880Q is

An independent research firm and a set of tools that share one engine. Every name is scored the same way, every score comes with its reasons, and every report is rebuilt on a nightly schedule from live market data — so the library is current, not a museum.

10th Man Rule

If every dimension agrees, someone must argue the other side. The lone dissent gets written down — not overruled. On every report, the strongest good-faith argument that the score is wrong sits beside the score, graded — Concur, Caution or Dissent — so you never read a number without its counter-case.

The tools

One membership opens all of them. Each reads from the same data and speaks the same scale.

The core

The Scorecard

Type any ticker and get a 0–100 composite built from five weighted dimensions — Technical, Fundamental, Demand, Sentiment, Macro — a Strong Buy to Sell grade, a written explanation of the score, and a full desktop report: fundamentals, balance sheet, behavioral fair value, projections, peers, risks and a downloadable white paper. Every report is refreshed nightly.

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Every morning at 5am

Top 10

The ten strongest names in the library, re-ranked daily. A name has to carry a Strong Buy or Buy grade and the 10th Man has to concur — the counter-case is thin. Then they are ordered by score. Taken once a day and held, so the list reads the same at noon as it did at breakfast.

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Is the money arriving?

Receivables

A payment-timing tracker read from the filed statements: whether what customers owe is growing faster than the revenue it funds, whether they are paying slower than they used to, and what that does to the score.

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Collections vs. what’s owed

Commentary

What a company collects, what it owes, and whether the two agree. The maturity wall, the runway after it, and the cost of debt that has not landed on the income statement yet — named plainly, with the numbers.

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The expected move

Price Range

The expected daily range for a watchlist from trend, realized and implied volatility, and the IV/RV read — so a move that looks dramatic can be measured against what the options market already expected.

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Where the money went

Flow

Sixty-eight sector and industry funds, screened for at least 500,000 shares a day, ranked by relative strength against the S&P, with the cycle phase read from CPI, unemployment, the funds rate and the curve — and the places where the tape disagrees with it. Participation sits beside every sector so narrow leadership is flagged. Rebuilt after every US close.

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From the desk

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September 19, 2026

IREN: The Pivot Priced Before It Pays

IREN is making a smart move. It spent years locking up cheap power and building data centers to mine Bitcoin. Now it is pointing those same assets at a better customer: AI companies that need computing power and will pay rising rates to rent it. The strategy is right. The problem is that the stock already prices the pivot as finished.

September 16, 2026

The Scorecard, Tested

We spent a week putting our own Scorecard on trial. Here is what held up, what did not, and what changes on the site because of it.

September 12, 2026

1880Q — The Seesaw Tips

Why long Treasury yields keep climbing — and how to trade falling bond prices with defined-risk options