The FHA Signal Thesis, Reframed

Published: March 2026 | American Default Research

The borrower split still matters. The ADI framing now follows the family method and avoids retired zone and fitted-weight language.

This thesis page was revised after the index-family cutover because the earlier version joined changing ADI primitives to a retired engine. The borrower split remains the question: stress tends to show up first where buffers are thinnest. The public ADI framing is narrower.

The family ADI retired the old component weights. It averages five equal-weighted domains after ranking each input inside its own quarterly history. FHA delinquency is supporting mortgage context outside the national composite weight set.

The ADI reference page publishes the maintained national reading with its required band gloss. The score is a mean of input percentiles, and quarter-rank context comes from the separate rank-in-history field.

For source data, use The FHA Signal and the ADI methodology.

Refresh Trace

2026-06-12
ADI 44.6 2025-Q4 · Band 3 of 5 - On average, its inputs sit higher than in 45% of their own quarterly histories since 2005
Tracked Rank 7 / 7 refresh history
Refresh Delta -19.95 2026-06-12
Co-moving indicator Source Period Delta
CFPB Consumer Complaint Volume Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 2026-05 +33131
Continued Unemployment Claims (SA) DOL via FRED 2026-05-30 +18000
Total Consumer Credit Outstanding Federal Reserve via FRED 2026-04 +12549.92
Total Revolving Credit Outstanding Federal Reserve via FRED 2026-04 +11700.88
Initial Unemployment Claims (SA) DOL via FRED 2026-06-06 +4000
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Ross Kilburn

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