Pyramiding a Position: Adding to Winners the Right Way

You take a breakout at 50.00 on a stock that spent six weeks coiling under resistance. The next morning it opens at 51.20 and holds. Your thesis is working, and…

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Read more about the article MARA +1561%: a base breakout as Bitcoin turned, October 2020
MARA on the 2020-10-08 breakout entry, from my chart archive

MARA +1561%: a base breakout as Bitcoin turned, October 2020

MARA is back near the top of the trending lists this week, and when a Bitcoin miner shows up on the movers again it's worth pulling up the chart that…

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Read more about the article GME +2292%: the quiet base breakout, August 2020
GME on the 2020-08-21 breakout entry, from my chart archive

GME +2292%: the quiet base breakout, August 2020

GameStop is back near the top of the StockTwits trending list today, which is as good a reason as any to pull the one GME chart worth keeping. Long before…

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Read more about the article MSTR +430%: a base breakout into the dot-com peak, August 1999
MSTR on the 1999-08-23 breakout entry, from my chart archive

MSTR +430%: a base breakout into the dot-com peak, August 1999

MSTR is one of those tickers that pulls a crowd every time it moves, so when it lights up the screens again it is worth pulling up the chart that…

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Read more about the article TSLA +965%: a base breakout that compounded for 15 months, November 2019
TSLA on the 2019-11-07 breakout entry, from my chart archive

TSLA +965%: a base breakout that compounded for 15 months, November 2019

TSLA is back on traders' screens, so the chart worth pulling up is the one from late 2019, well before today's tape. On 7 November 2019, Tesla tagged the 22.72…

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Risk of Ruin: The Sizing Math That Keeps You Alive

A trader can be right more often than wrong, collect two dollars on every winner for each dollar lost, and still drive the account to zero. It sounds impossible until…

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Turtle Trading Rules: The Complete Mechanical System

Two stocks flash a fresh high on the same morning. One is a quiet utility that moves twenty cents on a busy day. The other is a chip name that…

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MACD Trading Strategy: Which Entry Trigger to Pick

A signal-line crossover flips green, a trader takes the entry, and within three sessions the two MACD lines braid back together and the trade is stopped out for a loss.…

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Price Gaps Explained: The Four Types and What They Mean

Open any daily chart and you'll eventually find a blank vertical space where the candles skip a range of prices entirely. A stock closes Tuesday at 41.80 and opens Wednesday…

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Skewness in Trading: Why It Beats Tracking Win Rate

Picture an account that closes most days in the red and still finishes the year well ahead. The journal reads as a wall of small losses, the equity curve grinds…

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