Your question is S&P 500 Day Modeling. Take a moment with it on the right.
Talk me through your thinking if you like. When you're confident, submit your answer and I'll grade it like a real screen (7/10 or better passes).
Modelling task: predict the day's S&P 500 index from the prices of 500 constituent stocks (regression)
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Explain how you would formulate the target, collect and align historical prices, handle missing values and changing constituents, select features and models, validate without temporal leakage, and serve or schedule predictions. Discuss the baseline, evaluation metrics, retraining cadence, monitoring, and failure modes. State any clarifying assumptions rather than inventing product requirements.