The stock market indicators I actually look at every week and the ones I finally cut from my workflow

I trimmed my weekly indicator list down hard this year and my decision making got way better almost immediately. Too many people (myself included for a long time) have these massive watchlists of stock market indicators and never actually act on any of them because the signals conflict with each other.

What survived the cut:

FRED yield curve data, specifically 10Y minus 2Y and 10Y minus 3M. Slow mover but when it flips it matters. I pull it straight from the St. Louis Fed site every Monday.

AAII Sentiment Survey. Bearish readings above 50% have been a solid contrarian signal over time. Not on its own, but combined with other stuff it adds context.

Put/call ratio on CBOE (equity only, not total). Spikes above 0.9 get my attention.

VIX term structure, not the VIX level itself but the curve shape. Contango vs backwardation. Backwardation = real stress, not just headline fear.

ISM Manufacturing PMI, especially the employment sub index. Below 50 tends to front run economic slowdowns.

What got dropped: RSI on indices (too noisy on daily), CNN Fear and Greed Index (just a mashup of things I already track individually and it lags all of them), and daily MACD on SPX (false crossovers constantly during choppy months).

I also check MarketModel for a consolidated macro signal most weeks. Saves time on Sunday prep since they aggregate a lot of this into one daily read.

Fewer indicators checked consistently > a dashboard of 30 things you only look at when you're already nervous.