WU Sahm Recession Indicator

2023년 10월 25일

The Sahm Recession Indicator devised by Economist Claudia Sahm is a rather insightful tool that captures the onset of recessions by utilizing unemployment data, which can provide more real-time insights compared to quarterly GDP reports. If the three-month simple moving average (SMA) of the unemployment rate exceeds the minimum unemployment rate of the previous 12 months by 0.5 percentage points, it indicates a high likelihood of a recession.

This script allows you to visualize this indicator and set up alerts for when this criterion indicates that a recession could be coming.

2023년 11월 10일

릴리즈 노트

Will not display on any other time frame than Monthly. I added also a yellow line when the signal is exactly on the threshold value.

2024년 8월 4일

릴리즈 노트

Due to the use of the function ta.lowest(unrate3M, 12), which looked back only 11 months since it included the current one, the previous version was not fully accurate. I have fixed this issue.

2024년 9월 5일

릴리즈 노트

Can be switch to a Threshold of 0.61% instead of the 0.5% used by Claudia Sahm.