The index closed up eight tenths of a percent, and my watchlist was a wall of red. Most of the names I follow finished lower on the day, yet the…
Two fund fact sheets sit open on my screen. One reports portfolio turnover of 28 percent for the year. The other reports 165 percent. The instinct is to read the…
An equity curve slopes up and to the right, smooth, barely a drawdown across ten years. It reads like a finished strategy. Then you check one detail: the ranking that…
Pull ten years of daily data into a backtest, fit a trend filter that looks clean across the whole sample, then run it forward and watch it come apart. I've…
In June 2020, UPWK cleared a well-defined pivot and kept climbing. Upwork broke out of a six-month base at a close of 13.55, then trended to a 43.58 close on…
On the last Friday of June, a full year of index reconstitution lands in a single closing auction. I keep that date circled because the tape turns strange into the…
A few years back I held six positions spread across different sectors, the kind of book that looks diversified on paper. On the three worst sessions of that stretch, all…
On 6 July 2020, Sunrun closed at 21.34, just above a shelf it'd been coiling under for two weeks. The stock had spent the spring clawing back from a brutal…
Picture a stock you follow going quiet in the middle of the session. The tape stops printing, the bid and ask freeze, and for five minutes nothing trades at all.…
MGNI is back on traders' screens this week, near the top of the day's gainers list after Magnite's early-August quarterly report. That's a good reason to pull the chart that…