Study Market History. Identify Future Winners.

This site is about studying historical market leaders, breakouts, and trends – so you can recognize high-probability setups before they happen.

What you’ll find here:
• Historical studies of winning stocks and trends
• Breakout and trend-following chart analysis
• Risk management and position sizing principles
• Market psychology and pattern repetition

Latest Posts

Time Stop in Trading: When a Breakout Stalls Too Long

Picture a breakout from a seven-week base with the pivot at 48.20. The stock closes the breakout day at 48.95 on volume running 1.6 times its 50-day average, and the...

Adam Grimes: Testing Chart Patterns, Trading Edge and Risk

A breakout clears resistance, looks convincing for two sessions, then falls back into the range. The losing trade alone tells you very little about whether the setup was...

Eight-Week Hold Rule: Holding a Fast Post-Breakout Leader

A growth stock clears a seven-week base with a pivot at 50.00 and closes the breakout session at 51.20. On session 12 it closes at 60.40, which is 20.8% above the pivot...

Quarterly Earnings Acceleration: Reading the EPS Sequence

Two growth stocks report in the same week. Both show earnings per share up about 57% from the same quarter a year earlier, and on a screen they look interchangeable. One...

New Highs and New Lows: Breadth Context for Breakouts

The index closes at a fresh high, the headlines call it a strong market, and my breakout list has three names on it. Two of them reverse back into their bases within a...

Volatility Contraction Pattern: Reading Shrinking Swings

Picture a growth stock that ran from 40.00 to 72.50 in about four months and then stalled. The first pullback took it down to 58.00, a drop of 20.0%. Weeks later the same...

Three Weeks Tight: Reading Clustered Weekly Closes

A growth stock clears a base at 54.80, runs for six weeks, and then the weekly chart goes quiet. Three Friday closes land at 61.20, 61.65 and 61.05. On the daily chart...

7-8% Stop Loss Rule: An Entry-Based Loss Ceiling Explained

A stock clears its base, a trader enters at 100.00, and three sessions later the price is sitting at 95.40. The breakout volume has faded. Nothing on the chart says the...

Cup With Handle Pattern: Prior Trend, Handle and Pivot

A growth stock runs from 32.00 to 60.00, pulls back to 44.40, works its way back up to 58.90, then drifts for two weeks inside a narrow range just under that high. On a...

UPST +92%: the post-IPO base breakout ahead of earnings, August 2021

On 2 August 2021, Upstart Holdings closed at 133.41, up from 120.76 the session before and above a 130.9 high that had capped it since 12 July. Six sessions later the...

Index Extension Above the 50-Day Moving Average Explained

A base breakout clears its pivot on heavy volume, and the setup on the stock’s own chart looks clean. The benchmark index closed at 4,780 that same day, with its...

MSTR +344%: a six-month base breakout that ran on bitcoin, September 2020

On 15 September 2020, the day MicroStrategy disclosed a second bitcoin purchase worth 175 million dollars, the stock opened at 14.50 and closed at 15.57. That was a week...