Historical chart studies of stock market winners, breakout patterns, and trend behavior drawn from real price action.

Read more about the article VRSN +1848%: a base breakout that ran 467 days, December 1998
VRSN on the 1998-12-04 breakout entry, from my chart archive

VRSN +1848%: a base breakout that ran 467 days, December 1998

VRSN's back on traders' screens this week, popping onto Yahoo's gainers list after VeriSign's 23 July quarterly report and a raised full-year outlook. That's a fair excuse to pull the…

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Read more about the article WOLF +1876%: the silicon-carbide base breakout, October 1998
WOLF on the 1998-10-15 breakout entry, from my chart archive

WOLF +1876%: the silicon-carbide base breakout, October 1998

On 15 October 1998, a small silicon carbide chip maker closed at 4.12 and pushed above the shelf it had been building for the better part of a year. That…

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Read more about the article APPS +364%: the base breakout that ran into 2021, July 2020
APPS on the 2020-07-30 breakout entry, from my chart archive

APPS +364%: the base breakout that ran into 2021, July 2020

Digital Turbine, which trades under the ticker APPS, is back among the most-watched names on StockTwits this week. That's reason enough to pull up its chart from the summer of…

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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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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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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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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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