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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 a 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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Relative Strength Line: The Leading Breakout Filter

Two stocks break out to a new 52-week high on the same morning. Same chart pattern, same volume surge, same clean handle. Six weeks later one has added 40 percent…

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Wyckoff Method: Four Phases, Five Laws, Volume Logic

A few months back I sat on a chart that had not moved in fourteen weeks. Wide range, dull tape, volume pulsing on the up-days and fading on the down-days.…

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CANSLIM Trading System: Seven Filters That Work Together

A grower posts a 38% quarterly EPS jump, the stock gaps to a 52-week high on triple-average volume, and three brokers raise targets the next morning. I have watched that…

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Multi-Timeframe Analysis: A Top-Down Decision Hierarchy

A trader sees a tight base break on the daily chart at 47.20. Volume is heavy. The candle closes near the high. They buy the breakout, get filled, and watch…

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