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Trading insights, market analysis, and swing trading strategies.

Apply Mark Minervini’s trend template in 10 minutes

Apply Mark Minervini’s trend template in 10 minutes

A fast, step-by-step guide to applying Mark Minervini’s Trend Template in under 10 minutes—set up the right chart timeframe, validate moving-average structure and slopes, quantify key distances from MAs, and place price within its 52-week range so you can make a clear pass/fail decision and log a watchlist card.

Build a Quallamaggie watchlist in 20 minutes

Build a Quallamaggie watchlist in 20 minutes

A fast, practical guide to building a Quallamaggie-style watchlist in 20 minutes — set your universe and trend filters, run a first scan, score candidates in minutes, mark pivots/alerts, and lock in a daily 5-minute maintenance routine.

Breakout stock watchlist results: 50 trades over 6 months

Breakout stock watchlist results: 50 trades over 6 months

A data-driven case study of a breakout stock watchlist across 50 trades in six months—clear rules for breakout entries/exits, net performance after costs and slippage, regime- and volume-tier breakdowns, drawdown/risk stats, and benchmark-relative edge.

Sector rotation analysis: how it works for swing traders

Sector rotation analysis: how it works for swing traders

An explainer on sector rotation analysis for swing traders—understand capital-flow drivers, relative-strength measurement, regime vs cycle context, practical data proxies, and execution rules for entries, exits, and beta control.

Why Your Swing Trading Scanner Misses Breakouts Weekly

Why Your Swing Trading Scanner Misses Breakouts Weekly

A practical troubleshooter for fixing swing-trading scanners that miss breakouts—diagnose missed-signal symptoms, audit data-feed integrity, align timeframes and bar closes, correct rule logic, and tighten verification with a repeatable test playbook.

Market breadth dashboard results across 5,000 stocks, 12 months

Market breadth dashboard results across 5,000 stocks, 12 months

A data-driven case study of a market breadth dashboard built on 5,000 stocks over 12 months—scope and indicator design, dashboard/alert architecture, headline participation benchmarks, and practical risk-on/risk-off use cases to judge real trading viability.