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The celebration the prices never signed — June 2023

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The extreme

Look at the close of June 2023 for the point where something broke, and it isn't the enthusiasm that catches the eye — it's the gap that opened between it and everything else. The domestic investor crossed into extreme optimism while the price structure that would justify the party simply refused to come together. The Radar logged the divorce without knowing in whose favor it would be settled. In numbers: the Ânima Index jumped from 46.5 to 69.2; in the same month, the ratio between real estate funds and the IBOV swung from +0.31 to −0.73 standard deviation (Δ −1.04, the steepest drop in the fabric), commodities in reais sank to −2.21, and the intermarket score pulled back from 52.4 to 49.8, returning to neutral. The mood was celebrating; the price architecture was not.

What happened next

The first answer came from the uncomfortable side. In September, three months later, the mood gave it all back — Ânima fell from 58.1 to 45.3 — and prices offered no rescue: the intermarket hardened to 41.9 and capital ran toward Utilities (from 0.64 to 1.38 against the IBOV), the most defensive corner of the market. The euphoria evaporated, leaving no inheritance. Only in December did the structure pick a side: the cyclical/non-cyclical ratio jumped from +0.45 to +1.17 and domestic risk printed 89.7, full risk-on. That was when the verdict closed — June's configuration matured six months out with a +12.5% return, classified as a hit.

What did not happen

The optimism of 69.2 was not a top to be sold — anyone reading the euphoria as a sign of exhaustion would have missed the double-digit return that came afterward. But neither was it a new plateau: twelve months out, in June 2024, the mood had collapsed to 22.3, the bottom of the series. The party didn't last; what lasted was what the prices ended up buying. And none of it was a straight line — September sank before December rose.

The honest verdict

The signal that mattered was never the mood, which unraveled in three months. It was the structure, slower and less emotional — and it took half a year, with a scare in the middle, to sign the celebration that June had anticipated. Euphoria without price confirmation is neither an alarm nor an endorsement: it's a question that only time answers.

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