The Power Index ranks five core style factors by relative performance for the current weekly window, using the move from Monday close to the latest available pricing within the Wednesday publication cycle. For this draft, the read reflects Tuesday pricing versus Monday’s close: VLUE +3.63%, MTUM +2.61%, QUAL +0.61%, IWF +0.48%, and USMV -0.06%.
This was a full flip at the top. Value moved into first. Momentum held the upper tier. Low Volatility finished last. The spread between first and last sat near 3.69 percentage points, so this was not a tight shuffle. It was a clear rank reset.
1971 created millionaires. Most Americans watched it happen from the wrong side.
On Sunday evening, August 15, 1971, Richard Nixon interrupted regular television programming.
He spoke for 15 minutes.
By the time he finished, the gold standard was over. The dollar was no longer backed by anything except the government's word. And every dollar in every American's savings account had quietly changed — not in number, but in what it actually meant.
Nixon didn't ask Congress. He didn't hold a debate. He used a single executive authority and by Monday morning the monetary world had shifted.
The people who saw it coming had already moved. Gold tripled in three years. Over the next decade it went up twenty times.
The people who didn't understand what was happening watched their savings quietly lose value for a decade. They never recovered it.
Here's what the financial press isn't saying clearly:
Trump has that same executive authority today. And his own advisors are now openly saying the reversal of what Nixon did is on the table.
If he acts, it moves fast. There are two ways this plays out. Both of them move gold in the same direction.
We put together a free briefing on exactly what Nixon did, why Trump is the first president positioned to reverse it, and the one move Americans can make right now to be on the right side of what comes next.
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Nixon didn't warn anyone before that Sunday night broadcast.
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Ranked: The Reversal
Money changed sides fast.
Value finished first at about +3.63%. Momentum followed at roughly +2.61%. Quality held third near +0.61%. Growth came in fourth at about +0.48%. Low Volatility slipped to last, slightly negative near -0.06%.
That is a clean order.
Value did not just move up.
It took control.
Momentum stayed strong, but it did not lead. Growth stayed positive, but it lost rank. Low Volatility did not catch a bid at all.
That gives the table a different tone from the prior read.
This is not a simple risk-on move. If it were, Growth and Momentum would own the top together. Instead, Value led by more than 1 full point over Momentum and more than 3 points over Growth.
Now tighten the structure.
The top 2 factors made up roughly 83% of the total positive move. Add Quality, and the top 3 made up about 91%.
That is heavy concentration.
The table moved.
But the move did not spread.
Value and Momentum carried almost all of it. The rest of the field was background.
Now look at the bottom.
Low Volatility finished last at about -0.06%. That is not a deep drop. But in a field where Value rose more than 3.6%, last place matters.
Low Volatility was not being paid as defense.
Growth was not being paid as leadership.
That split is the signal.
The key reference point is this:
Value led at about +3.63%.
Momentum followed at about +2.61%.
Quality held third at about +0.61%.
Growth ranked fourth at about +0.48%.
Low Volatility slipped -0.06% and finished last.
The order flipped.
The spread widened.
The top became much more concentrated.
Money moved hard into Value, kept Momentum in the mix, and ignored Low Volatility.
Leadership changed fast. The structure did not broaden.