Creates a research thesis directory and its specification.

Competitive landscape analysis, competitor comparison, peer positioning, market share dynamics, competitive moat assessment, Porter five forces, industry competition, competitive advantage analysis, market positioning, strategic group mapping, compare competitors

Append-only gap closure and the cadence engine for research theses. Evaluates artifact CURRENT state (never git history, never task checkboxes) against current pins and wrong_if falsifiers, then appends a Convergence section to tasks.md re-proposing the gaps. A clean run leaves tasks.md byte-identical. Deterministic gaps (stale, invalidated) are uncapped; judgment-class gaps are capped per spec 046 Q40.

Weekly clinical-trial status diff — the 11-category change report over the stored weekly snapshots (spec 055 FR-B03). Surfaces exactly what changed on the trial registry for your coverage: New / Suspended / Withdrawn / Terminated / Recruiting / Recruitment-Complete / Completed / Ahead / Delayed / Upsized / Downsized, every row carrying previous and new values, with risk flags on Terminated and Downsized and re-timing flags on Ahead and Delayed. The stored-previous-value discipline makes each week's diff reproducible.

Med-adapted earnings preview: consensus estimates, historical surprises, guidance sensitivities, and the FDA-catalyst overlay (PDUFA/AdCom/trial readouts near the print) for biotech/pharma names.

Vaccine catalyst analysis across the two-gate path: CBER BLA review and the ACIP recommendation gate that turns FDA approval into commercial availability. Lot release, procurement milestones, pediatric bridging, and healthy-population efficacy context — dated, verified, and sized per event.

options income, covered call strategy, cash secured puts, credit spreads, iron condor, wheel strategy, premium selling, yield enhancement, defined risk income, monthly income options

Leading economic indicators analysis, ISM PMI, yield curve, consumer sentiment UMCSI, jobless claims, building permits, economic turning point detection, recession signal analysis

Macro-driven trade idea generation, translating macroeconomic views into concrete stock ideas, sector selection from macro regime, international trade ideas via ADRs, cross-border idea sourcing, macro catalyst mapping to equity positions

Macro regime analysis, bull bear market detection, business cycle analysis, macro environment assessment, interest rate cycle, yield curve analysis, monetary policy, fiscal policy, global macro, central bank posture, credit cycle, recession probability, expansion regime, macro regime shift, stagflation detection

Options trade execution, directional strategies long call covered call collar, spread strategies bull call bear put ratio ladder, volatility strategies straddle strangle strap strip, liquidity cost and implied volatility filters, integration with gold.technical_setups for options setup matching

options foundations, Greeks analysis, volatility surface, put call parity, options pricing, delta gamma theta vega rho, Black Scholes, options theory, derivatives basics, options mechanics

Peer benchmarking, multi-ticker financial comparison, growth value matrix, composite z-score ranking, industry peer comparison, competitive benchmarking, sector relative performance, peer group analysis, industry leader comparison, financial ratio benchmarking

portfolio hedging, tail risk hedging, options overlay, correlation regime, downside protection, portfolio insurance, risk mitigation strategy, hedge construction, black swan hedging, volatility hedging

position sizing, Kelly criterion, risk budgeting, volatility targeting, portfolio allocation, bet sizing, capital allocation, drawdown management, position management, risk parity sizing

Qualitative stock analysis, management operating plan MOP assessment, key performance indicator KPI identification, catalyst identification and classification, earnings call transcript analysis, qualitative evidence gathering for investment thesis

Financial ratio analysis, profitability ratios ROE ROA ROIC, liquidity ratios current quick cash, leverage ratios debt-to-equity interest coverage, efficiency ratios asset turnover inventory turnover DSO, valuation ratios PE PB EV/EBITDA, cross-company ratio comparison, DuPont analysis

Recent quarter performance analysis, quarterly earnings review, last quarter results, quarterly financial performance, analyze recent quarter, Q4 earnings, quarterly revenue breakdown, EPS this quarter, margin analysis recent quarter, sequential growth, quarterly performance review

Med-adapted recent-quarter review: last print financials, pipeline-milestone awareness, and FDA-event context — reads the quarter through the med lens (milestones moved, runway, regulatory updates) rather than generic financials alone.