One strategy. Breakout Continuation.
A stock already going up, above its 200-day average, that has stopped and wound itself into a tightening range. I buy it on a stop order through the top of that range, put the stop under the coil, and take the measured move — five to twenty sessions, in or out.
That is the whole book. It is here because the stop is tighter than any other shape gives you, so the same target pays more; because a coil has a release point and resolves fast; and because it is one of only two shapes that beat a random entry out of sample when I measure it on your own symbols. Everything else I detect, draw and name — so you can learn it — but I do not buy it.
Own great businesses. Don't overpay. Hold for years.
I am a separate advisor from the swing trader. I buy a business only when four things are true: it earns a high return on the money it invests and turns that into cash; it can keep reinvesting at that rate; the price does not already assume more growth than it has delivered; and the market has stopped fighting it. Then I buy in three steps and hold three to ten years.
This is the evidence-backed version of how the best long-term investors work — quality (high returns on capital, real cash), a fair price (the reverse DCF), patience, and letting the few big winners run. Most of what I look at is a pass, and I will say so.
Takes a few minutes — I screen every US business, then read the filings, the earnings calls and the bear case on the best before answering here.
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Find me a Breakout Continuation
One scan across every liquid US stock, looking for the one shape this strategy buys: an uptrend above its 200-day average that has coiled into a tightening range under a defined lid, with volume already arriving. The analyst then reads the news on the best of them and comes back with one trade — what to buy, at what price, and where to get out.
Takes a couple of minutes — it reads charts and searches the news before answering. The answer appears in Chat.