Field note · 9 January 2026
Three questions before commissioning a divergence briefing
Decide the market, the horizon, and the decision on the table before you book — it changes the quality of the preparation.
Briefings go poorly when the market is vague (“UK equities broadly”) and the decision is unspoken. Before you write to us, settle three points.
Which market? Name a sector, a cross, or a basket you actually trade or advise on. Which horizon? Event week, fortnight, or quarter-end. Which decision? Add, reduce, wait, hedge, or rewrite a client narrative.
With those answers we can prepare. Without them we spend the first twenty minutes of a paid session discovering scope — time better spent on the institutional versus retail comparison itself.