Mean Reversion Trading: When Fading Extremes Pays Off

A stock gaps down six percent on no fresh news, tags the lower Bollinger Band, and its 14-period RSI prints 22. Two experienced traders pull up the same chart. One…

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Limit Order Book: How Market and Limit Orders Fill

Picture a 5,000-share market order hitting a thin small-cap at 10:47 in the morning. The last trade printed at 24.10, so you'd expect a fill somewhere near there. Instead the…

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Read more about the article FSLR +357%: a base breakout that ran for months, March 2007
FSLR on the 2007-03-08 breakout entry, from my chart archive

FSLR +357%: a base breakout that ran for months, March 2007

First Solar's back near the top of the trending lists this week. Second-quarter results are scheduled for 30 July 2026, and there's a U.S. polysilicon trade ruling pending, both drawing…

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Read more about the article AXSM +865%: base breakout on a clinical-stage biotech, March 2019
AXSM on the 2019-03-07 breakout entry, from my chart archive

AXSM +865%: base breakout on a clinical-stage biotech, March 2019

AXSM is back on traders' screens this week, after the FDA accepted Axsome Therapeutics' filing for a new narcolepsy drug in mid-July 2026. The chart that's worth studying, though, is…

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Inter-Market Analysis: A Cross-Asset Confirmation Layer

A stock clears a six-week base on heavy volume and the chart looks clean. Price closed at 142.30, comfortably above the 138.50 pivot, and the relative strength line tagged a…

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Read more about the article AMC +501%: a base breakout that outran the story, February 2021
AMC on the 2021-02-22 breakout entry, from my chart archive

AMC +501%: a base breakout that outran the story, February 2021

AMC is back on the retail trackers this month, and it's worth pulling up the chart from the last time it ran rather than the headlines around it. In February…

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Read more about the article NIO +1227%: the base breakout of an EV survivor, May 2020
NIO on the 2020-05-26 breakout entry, from my chart archive

NIO +1227%: the base breakout of an EV survivor, May 2020

NIO's back on the StockTwits trending list this week, and a mid-July 2026 upgrade to buy from Goldman Sachs is a big reason why. That makes now a good time…

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Read more about the article RIOT +3688%: a base breakout into the halving, May 2020
RIOT on the 2020-05-06 breakout entry, from my chart archive

RIOT +3688%: a base breakout into the halving, May 2020

RIOT's back on traders' screens this week, ranked number 20 on the Stocktwits most-active list on 13 July 2026, and that's reason enough to pull up the chart that made…

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Bid-Ask Spread: The Built-In Cost of Every Fill You Get

You mark a small-cap you've been watching, the last trade printed at 24.05, and you send a market order to get in. The fill comes back at 24.18. Nothing moved…

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Read more about the article QS +333%: a base breakout ahead of the merger, November 2020
QS on the 2020-11-13 breakout entry, from my chart archive

QS +333%: a base breakout ahead of the merger, November 2020

QS is back near the top of the StockTwits trending list this week, and the chart worth pulling up is one from late 2020, when the same ticker resolved a…

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