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Oct 31, 2026 · Market Commentary
19 for 19. But Don’t Buy the Headline.
What 19 midterm elections reveal about the S&P 500, and why higher later does not mean higher tomorrow.
- Market History
- Midterm Elections
- S&P 500
- Market Analysis
- Stock Market
- Market Seasonality

Oct 27, 2026 · Trading Psychology
The Hidden Beliefs Sabotaging Your Trading
Why knowing the rules isn’t enough. Lessons from Van Tharp and Ed Seykota on trading psychology, self-sabotage, and changing the beliefs that hold you back.
- trading psychology
- Investing
- Trading
- Momentum Trading Strategy
- Market Wizards

Oct 14, 2026 · Market Commentary
Stock Market Warning Signs: Why I’m Getting Defensive
Weak breadth, rising rates, failed breakouts, and increasing distribution are telling growth and momentum traders to protect capital.

Oct 11, 2026 · Risk Management
How Many Stocks Should You Own? The Mistake That Can Cost You Your Biggest Winners
What William O'Neil, Mark Minervini, and the Market Wizards teach us about portfolio concentration, position sizing, cash management, and knowing when to stop trading.
- Momentum Trading
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- Portfolio Heat
- David Ryan

Oct 8, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
Up 100% and Still Buyable? What Traders Get Wrong About Extended Stocks
How to identify proper buy points, avoid chasing stock breakouts, and manage entry risk using lessons from William O’Neil, Mark Minervini, David Ryan, and Dan Zanger.
- Momentum Trading
- VCP
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- David Ryan
- Flag Pattern
- chart patterns
- Cup and Handle

Sep 27, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
Should You Follow Leading Stocks or Wait for Market Confirmation?
How to read the market, industry groups, and individual stocks together so you can recognize opportunities, build exposure, and respond when conditions change
- growth stocks
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- Stan Weinstein
- William O'Neil
- Momentum Trading Strategy
- Trade stocks

Sep 25, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
Stage Analysis: How to Spot Stage 3 in Real Time
Recognize a developing Stage 3 using Stan Weinstein’s framework, with real chart examples, warning signs, and lessons for protecting your gains
- Momentum Trading
- Nasdaq
- technical analysis
- CANSLIM
- position trading
- Stan Weinstein
- QQQ
- Find True Market Leaders

Sep 17, 2026 · Legendary Traders
4 Legendary Traders. 4 Breakout Entry Tactics.
A chart-by-chart breakdown of Minervini’s VCP, O’Neil’s cup with handle, Darvas’s box breakout, and Kullamägi’s opening range breakout.
- how to make money in stocks
- IBD
- Momentum Trading
- VCP
- technical analysis
- CANSLIM
- Trading Setups
- position trading

Sep 9, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
100+ Years of Winning Stocks: The Patterns That Keep Repeating
A decade-by-decade video walkthrough of the trends, setups, and buy points behind some of history’s biggest stock market winners.
- how to make money in stocks
- Momentum Trading
- technical analysis
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- biggest winning stocks
- William O'Neil
- Cup with handle

Sep 6, 2026 · Other Articles
Growth Stock and Momentum Trading: What It Is and What It Isn’t
What 100 Years of Stock Charts Reveal About Growth-Momentum Trading, and Where Personal Style Ends and a Different Strategy Begins
- how to make money in stocks
- Momentum Trading
- CANSLIM
- position trading
- Stan Weinstein
- David Ryan
- Trend Trading
- Kristjan Kullamägi

Sep 6, 2026 · Legendary Traders
Market Wizard David Ryan: How He Made 1,379% in Three Years
Inside the growth-stock approach of William O’Neil’s protégé and three-time U.S. Investing Champion, from precise entries to holding major winners.
- IBD
- fundamental analysis
- Learn Trading
- technical analysis
- position trading
- David Ryan
- Market Wizard
- CAN SLIM

Sep 1, 2026 · Trading Psychology
The Market Isn’t Your Biggest Opponent. You Are.
Why the greatest traders eventually discover that trading psychology, discipline, and self-mastery matter more than another setup, indicator, or strategy
- growth stocks
- Momentum Trading
- Learn Trading
- trading psychology
- Investing
- ed seykota
- position trading
- Peter Brandt

Aug 29, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
How to Spot the Market’s Next Leading Industry Groups Before the Crowd
My exact top-down and bottom-up process for tracking sector rotation, relative strength, earnings growth, and institutional accumulation.
- Industry Group Analysis
- CANSLIM
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- stock trading
- growth stock investing
- Momentum Trading Strategy
- swing trading

Aug 29, 2026 · Legendary Traders
Why the Market’s Biggest Winning Stocks Rarely Move Alone
Lessons from Nicolas Darvas, William O’Neil, and Mark Minervini on using industry-group strength and relative strength to find new market leaders without getting whipsawed.
- growth stocks
- CANSLIM
- position trading
- David Ryan
- stock trading
- Kristjan Kullamägi
- Nicolas Darvas
- industry groups

Aug 26, 2026 · Trading Psychology
Most Traders Fail. But That Statistic Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story
Why the failure rate in trading may say more about preparation, persistence, and process than your actual odds of success
- Momentum Trading
- Learn Trading
- CANSLIM
- Growth Stock Trading
- trading stocks
- growth stock investing

Aug 25, 2026 · Legendary Traders
Why Most Traders Fail Even With a Winning System: The Edge Almost Everyone Ignores
Richard Dennis, Paul Tudor Jones, Ed Seykota, Larry Hite, and Van Tharp all point to the same uncomfortable truth: the trader is part of the system.
- learn to trade
- Larry Hite
- Investing
- ed seykota
- Trading
- psychology of trading
- Dr. Van K. Tharp
- Richard Dennis

Aug 19, 2026 · Legendary Traders
Does High Volatility Mean High Risk? What O’Neil, Minervini, Ryan, and Zanger Actually Looked For
How four legendary growth-stock traders thought about volatility, ATR, ADR, tight price action, volume, position sizing, and risk
- learn to trade
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- CAN SLIM Trading
- David Ryan

Aug 15, 2026 · Software & Tools
MTS Velocity: How I Find the Market’s Strongest Stocks | Complete Software Tutorial
See how I use Relative Strength, stock screens, charts, watchlists, risk tools, trade planning, journaling, and analytics to find and manage leading stocks.
- Momentum Trading
- CANSLIM
- Growth Stock Trading
- Stock Market
- growth stock investing
- Relative Strength Stock Screener
- Momentum Trading Strategy
- Find Stocks

Aug 14, 2026 · Market Commentary
This Market Keeps Getting Stronger: 10 Stocks in 10 Different Industry Groups
Breadth is expanding, growth is leading again, and strength is showing up across the market. Here are 10 stocks that have my attention right now.
- Momentum Trading
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- stock trading
- Growth Investing
- Market Analysis

Jul 30, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
Why Relative Strength Screeners Shouldn't Rank Every Stock
The quality of your Relative Strength rankings depends just as much on the universe you're measuring as the formula you're using.
- CANSLIM
- Growth Stock Trading
- growth stock investing
- Stock Scanner
- Relative Strength Stock Screener
- Momentum Trading Strategy
- finding stocks
- Trading Software

Jul 18, 2026 · Trading Psychology
Strong Opinions, Weakly Held: The Mindset That Separates Great Traders and Investors from Everyone Else
Why the world's greatest traders and investors build high conviction, change their minds without hesitation, and never let an investment thesis become their identity.
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- George Soros
- Tom Hougaard
- Stock Market
- William O'Neil
- Stanley Druckenmiller

Jul 17, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
How to Buy Pullbacks in Leading Stocks Without Catching a Falling Knife
A practical guide to identifying support, recognizing upside reversals, waiting for confirmation, placing logical stops, and building positions as the stock proves itself.
- Momentum Trading
- How to trade stocks
- technical analysis
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- Pullback Buying

Jul 12, 2026 · Legendary Traders
Does O’Neil’s 8% Stop Rule Still Work Today?
What O’Neil, Minervini, Kristjan Kullamägi, Dan Zanger, and Bruce Kovner can teach us about tighter entries, technical stops, position sizing, and managing today’s higher-volatility market leaders
- Learn Trading
- technical analysis
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- Staggered Stops
- Bruce Kovner

Jul 11, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
The Exact TradingView Chart Setup I Use
A beginner asked me how I set up my charts. The answer is probably not what you expect.
- Momentum Trading
- fundamental analysis
- How to read charts
- technical analysis
- CANSLIM
- trading education
- Learn Investing
- growth stock investing

Jul 7, 2026 · Risk Management
Position Size and Manage Risk Like a Market Wizard
Using Bruce Kovner’s stop-loss principle to plan the trade before the trade begins.
- growth stocks
- Momentum Trading
- fundamental analysis
- Learn Trading
- technical analysis
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading

Jul 4, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
The One Stock Screen I Would Use for the Rest of My Life
The greatest winning stocks in history rarely begin as laggards. Relative strength helps you find emerging leaders before the crowd realizes they are the stocks institutions are accumulating.
- IBD
- find growth stocks
- Investing
- Stock Screener
- Trading
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- David Ryan

Jul 3, 2026 · Software & Tools
Inside the Momentum Trading Strategy Software: A Full Trading Process in One Platform
See how the platform helps traders read the market, find relative strength, manage risk, and review performance from start to finish.
- Momentum Trading
- CANSLIM
- Trading Journal
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- Stock Scanner
- Relative Strength Stock Screener
- Momentum Trading Strategy

Jul 2, 2026 · Risk Management
Why Great Traders Can Seem Bipolar in Choppy Markets
The best traders are not changing their minds because they are confused. They are changing their exposure because the market evidence has changed.
- Momentum Trading
- progressive exposure
- Learn Trading
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- stock trading

Jun 30, 2026 · Legendary Traders
The Volatility Contraction Pattern: Mark Minervini’s Setup Before the Breakout
Used by elite growth and momentum traders for decades, the VCP reveals drying supply, building demand, and a defined-risk entry before a leader breaks out.
- Momentum Trading
- Learn Trading
- VCP
- Investing
- Trading
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- Trading Setup

Jun 24, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
The Stock Looks Too High. That Might Be the Point.
What O’Neil, Ryan, Minervini, and Darvas understood about buying strength before the move becomes obvious
- growth stocks
- Momentum Trading
- learn to trade
- trading course
- learn momentum trading
- Trading
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading

Jun 23, 2026 · Other Articles
If I Had to Bet on a Group of Traders, I’d Bet on These Ones
The real edge after you learn the rules is becoming the kind of person who can actually follow them.
- Investing
- Trading

Jun 11, 2026 · Software & Tools
Big Updates Just Dropped Inside the Momentum Trading Strategy Web App
The Relative Strength Stock Screener has come a long way in just a few months.
- find growth stocks
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- Growth Investing
- Scanning for stocks

Jun 10, 2026 · Legendary Traders
How Marty “Pit Bull” Schwartz Turned $40K Into $20M Without Big Drawdowns
The Marine-trained trader who used moving averages, tight stops, market timing, and emotional discipline to become one of Wall Street’s most consistent performers.
- learn to trade
- technical analysis
- Trading
- stock trading
- Market Wizard
- futures trading
- swing trading
- Put Bull

Jun 6, 2026 · Trading Psychology
The Moment Trading Stops Being About Getting Rich
Why the best traders eventually stop chasing bigger returns and start protecting what they have already built.
- Investing
- Trading

Jun 4, 2026 · Other Articles
Why It Hurts More to Spend Money You Earn Yourself
I thought making more money would make spending easier. Instead, trading and building businesses made every dollar feel harder to let go.
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- Business
- Stock Market
- growth stock investing

Jun 3, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
How I Find the Biggest Winning Stocks in the Market
The screening process I use to identify explosive growth stocks capable of advancing 100%, 200%, 300%, 1000% or more.
- Momentum Trading
- find growth stocks
- CANSLIM
- Stock Screener
- Growth Stock Trading
- find hot stocks
- Scanning for stocks
- Trade Growth Stocks

May 25, 2026 · Legendary Traders
Ed Seykota’s Trading Tribe: Why Trading Psychology Matters More Than Another Strategy
The Market Wizards legend proved the power of systematic trading, then showed why the hardest part is following your rules under pressure.
- trading psychology
- Investing
- ed seykota
- Trading
- Market Wizard

May 21, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
Understanding Backtesting, Modeling, and Forward Testing: Methods for Validating Trading Strategies
How Top Traders Use Backtesting, Modeling, and Forward Testing to Build and Trust Their Edge
- Momentum Trading
- Learn Trading
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- position trading
- Dr. Van K. Tharp
- Trading System Development
- modeling

May 19, 2026 · Risk Management
Does O’Neil’s 8% Stop-Loss Rule Still Work Today?
A real trade example showing how the rule works when paired with proper position sizing.
- growth stocks
- Momentum Trading
- learn to trade
- Finance Risk
- CANSLIM
- position trading
- Position Sizing
- Risk Management

May 17, 2026 · Trading Psychology
You Didn’t Miss the Move. You Stopped Working the Watchlist.
MU shows why patient traders can still find elite leaders after the market turns, if they stay prepared, manage their watchlist, and avoid FOMO.
- learn risk management
- CANSLIM
- position trading
- MU
- stock trading
- Stock Setups
- Position Sizing
- Risk Management

May 15, 2026 · Risk Management
The 21 Mistakes That Quietly Destroy Trading Accounts
William O’Neil’s costly investing mistakes from How to Make Money in Stocks, and why fixing your errors may matter more than finding your next stock idea.
- growth stocks
- how to make money in stocks
- learn to trade
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- stock trading

May 14, 2026 · Trading Psychology
Why Most Traders Lose Even When They Know What to Do
How Mark Douglas’ probabilistic discipline and Denise Shull’s emotional awareness create the foundation for consistent, professional trading.
- trading psychology
- Mark Douglas
- Annie Duke
- psychology of trading
- Denise Shull
- Tom Hougaard
- mental game
- Mental side of trading

May 12, 2026 · Legendary Traders
Marty Zweig’s Rules: Don’t Fight the Fed, Don’t Fight the Tape, and Don’t Fight Yourself
Why Winning on Wall Street still matters for growth stock investors, momentum traders, and anyone trying to stay aligned with the market’s major trend
- Momentum Trading
- fundamental analysis
- technical analysis
- Trading
- position trading
- Macro
- Market Analysis
- Stock Market

May 11, 2026 · Trading Psychology
Your Trading Strategy Isn’t Broken: Your Discipline Score Is
Dr. Van Tharp’s 95% rule for trading discipline, mistake tracking, and why most traders never let their edge show up.
- Momentum Trading
- Trade Review
- Investing
- Trading
- Super Trader
- position trading
- Trading Beyond The Matrix
- stock trading

May 10, 2026 · Legendary Traders
The CANSLIM Growth Stock Playbook Behind America’s Biggest Winners
How William O’Neil turned more than a century of market history into one of the most influential frameworks for finding true growth stock leaders before they become obvious.
- growth stocks
- how to make money in stocks
- Momentum Trading
- CANSLIM
- Growth Stock Trading
- CAN SLIM
- William O'Neil
- growth stock investing

May 9, 2026 · Legendary Traders
The Position Sizing Game That Shows Why Good Strategies Still Fail
How Dr. Van Tharp’s Marble Game reveals how position sizing connects expectancy, drawdown, risk tolerance, and long-term trading performance
- learn risk management
- Learn Trading
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- Position Sizing Strategies
- position trading
- Marble Game
- Learn Investing

May 8, 2026 · Other Articles
The $20 Books Taught Me the Rules. The $5,000 Course Bought Me Time
Why the right trading education is not a shortcut around the work, but it can compress years of confusion, mistakes, and unnecessary pain.
- Momentum Trading
- learn to trade
- Learn Trading
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- Momentum Trading Strategy

May 6, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
When Should You Sell a Winning Stock? The Trade Management Playbook
How to Use ATR Trailing Stops, Moving Averages, Donchian Channels, Partial Sales, and Risk Financing to Protect Profits Without Cutting Your Biggest Winners Short
- How to sell stocks
- How to trade stocks
- CANSLIM
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- stock trading
- Stock Market
- selling into strength

Apr 30, 2026 · Software & Tools
Start Here: The Complete Roadmap for Learning Momentum Trading the Right Way
Learn how to read the market, find leadership, manage risk, and build a repeatable momentum trading process without chasing stock tips
- growth stocks
- learn to trade
- Learn Trading
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading

Apr 30, 2026 · Risk Management
The Importance of Low-Risk, High-Reward Setups in Trading
A Nasdaq-100 trade example on using multiple timeframes, progressive exposure, and financing risk to control downside while staying open to bigger upside
- Momentum Trading
- Learn Trading
- position trading
- Risk Management
- Stock Market
- Entry Setups
- Nasdaq-100
- futures trading

Apr 28, 2026 · Software & Tools
This Is No Longer Just a Stock Screener
The Momentum Trading Strategy Web App just got a major upgrade with new Relative Strength Screener features, LEADER/CANSLIM-style filters, and a full trading journal with performance analytics
- growth stocks
- Momentum Trading
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Stock Screener
- Trading
- Trading Journal
- position trading

Apr 25, 2026 · Software & Tools
I Built a Relative Strength Screener to Find the Market’s Hottest Growth Stocks
A 20-minute walkthrough of the Momentum Trading Strategy app, how I rank stocks by relative strength, screen for earnings and sales growth, track leading groups, and build watchlists before stocks bec
- CANSLIM
- Stock Screener
- Trading
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- find hot stocks
- Stock Market
- growth stock investing

Apr 24, 2026 · Software & Tools
Find the Leaders: A Structured Approach to Relative Strength
Turning a repeatable process into a practical tool through the Relative Strength Stock Screener inside the Momentum Trading Strategy App
- Momentum Trading
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- stock trading
- Growth Investing

Apr 18, 2026 · Other Articles
Why I Still Trade When I Don’t Need the Money
The unexpected reason financial freedom isn’t enough
- Investing
- Trading

Apr 3, 2026 · Software & Tools
The Momentum Trading Strategy Web App: Everything I Use to Find Market Leaders in One Place
A streamlined platform that combines technical and fundamental stock screening with big picture market analysis and integrated risk management
- growth stocks
- Momentum Trading
- Trading Tool
- CANSLIM
- Stock Screener
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- Trend Trading

Apr 2, 2026 · Legendary Traders
The Minervini Blueprint: The SEPA Framework And Volatility Contraction Pattern That Turn Small Accounts Into Superperformers
The SEPA, VCP, and risk rules behind a 33,500% run and how to adapt them to your own trading
- growth stocks
- Momentum Trading
- learn momentum trading
- Learn Trading
- VCP
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading

Mar 20, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
The Momentum Burst Setup: How to Capture Explosive Moves Before They Happen
How to Position Early for Explosive Moves in High Relative Strength Stocks
- Momentum Trading
- momentum burst setup
- Investing
- stock trading
- trading stocks
- Kristjan Kullamägi
- Stock Market
- Relative Strength Stock Screener

Mar 8, 2026 · Legendary Traders
The 3 Trading Setups That Turned Kristjan Kullamägi From Security Guard to $100M Trader
How Kristjan Kullamägi (Qullamaggie) Uses Breakouts, Episodic Pivots, and Parabolic Shorts to Capture the Market’s Biggest Momentum Moves
- Momentum Trading
- Parabolic Short
- Trading
- Trading Setups
- Kristjan Kullamägi
- Risk Management
- Breakouts
- trading strategy

Feb 25, 2026 · Risk Management
Most Traders Get Position Sizing Wrong. Here’s the Risk Management Fix.
How to align technical stops, position sizing, and portfolio exposure into a complete risk management framework
- technical analysis
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- Trading Setups
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- stock trading

Feb 24, 2026 · Legendary Traders
The 4 Breakout Entry Architectures Used by Market Legends
How Minervini, O’Neil, Darvas, and Kullamägi Time Momentum With Surgical Precision
- Momentum Trading
- VCP
- technical analysis
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- Trading Setups
- position trading

Feb 19, 2026 · Risk Management
Why Your Win Rate Is Lying to You
The uncomfortable truth about risk management, drawdowns, and why expectancy matters more than being right
- Momentum Trading
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- stock trading
- Growth Investing

Feb 12, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
When A Stock Looks Extended, What Should You Actually Do?
Weekly vs Daily Charts, Risk Definition, And Smarter Entry Decisions
- Momentum Trading
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- position trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- stock trading
- Growth Investing
- Risk Management

Feb 6, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
Why Relative Strength Is the Fastest Way to Find Big Winning Stocks
How the Greatest Market Leaders Are Identified Early and How I Use a Relative Strength Stock Scanner to Stack the Odds
- growth stocks
- Momentum Trading
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Stock Screener
- position trading
- Develop Stock Watchlist
- Trend Trading

Jan 30, 2026 · Risk Management
How Professionals Finance Risk and Why Most Traders Never Do
From base structure to partial sells, this is how great traders stop risking principal
- growth stocks
- Finance Risk
- Trading
- position trading
- stock trading
- George Soros
- Growth Investing
- Risk Management

Jan 27, 2026 · Risk Management
Why Great Investors Reject Diversification
What William O’Neil and Warren Buffett Agreed On That Most People Ignore
- Momentum Trading
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- Risk Management
- William O'Neil
- diversification

Jan 26, 2026 · Risk Management
Every Trader Faces a Drawdown. The Ones Who Survive Know What to Do Next
Why drawdowns happen, how professionals survive them, and what to do when you are in one
- growth stocks
- Momentum Trading
- Trading
- position trading
- psychology of trading
- stock trading
- Growth Investing
- Risk Management

Jan 22, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
Watchlist: How I Narrow the Field When There Are Too Many Stocks
Separating What’s Actionable Now, What’s Extended, and 10 Stocks to Watch
- growth stocks
- CANSLIM
- stock trading
- Growth Investing
- Stock Market
- Watch List
- chart analysis

Jan 21, 2026 · Software & Tools
A Quick Update on Where This Is Heading
How This Publication Is Evolving and What to Expect Going Forward
- growth stocks
- Momentum Trading
- CANSLIM
- position trading
- Growth Investing
- William O'Neil
- swing trading

Jan 20, 2026 · Legendary Traders
Why You Keep Getting Stopped Out Even When You Are Right
The uncomfortable truth about stop losses most traders never learn
- growth stocks
- Momentum Trading
- Investing
- Trading
- position trading
- stock trading
- Bruce Kovner
- Growth Investing

Jan 18, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
The Best Trades Put You in the Money Immediately and Never Look Back
Why the biggest stock winners prove you right immediately
- Momentum Trading
- FIX
- technical analysis
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- APP
- MU

Jan 11, 2026 · Strategy & Tactics
Why Most Stocks Follow the Market and How to Spot the Next Leaders Early
Most stocks rise and fall with the indexes. The real edge is finding the few that hold up when the market does not. This is how relative strength and institutional accumulation reveal future leaders.
- Momentum Trading
- technical analysis
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- position trading
- stock trading
- Stock Market

Jan 5, 2026 · Legendary Traders
David Ryan on Using Volume to Anticipate Big Moves
How Institutional Demand Reveals Itself Before the Breakout
- Momentum Trading
- Trading
- position trading
- David Ryan
- VICR
- Growth Investing
- Volume Price Analysis
- William O'Neil

Dec 29, 2025 · Legendary Traders
The Legendary Trader Michael Marcus Once Said Something Most Traders Still Ignore
Why understanding human behavior matters more than any market, model, or indicator
- Momentum Trading
- Investing
- Trading
- Growth Investing
- Market Analysis
- Michael Marcus
- Market Wizards

Dec 28, 2025 · Market Commentary
The Wall of Worry: How 2025 Proved That Bull Markets Rise Through Fear and Why Tape Reading Still Wins
What the Tape Revealed While the Headlines Got It Wrong
- Reading the Tape
- Investing
- Trading
- position trading
- stock trading
- Growth Investing
- Stock Market
- 2025 Market Analysis

Dec 20, 2025 · Strategy & Tactics
My Favorite Trade Setup: Big Momentum, Tight Contraction, Asymmetric Risk
How tightening price and drying volume create low-risk, high-reward opportunities
- Momentum Trading
- VCP
- Trading
- Contraction Pattern
- Trading Setup
- stock trading
- Bruce Kovner
- Risk Management

Dec 19, 2025 · Strategy & Tactics
The Volume You’re Watching Isn’t the Full Story
Why futures offer a cleaner volume picture, why stocks can look misleading intraday, and what traders should actually do with that information
- Momentum Trading
- iceberg orders
- internalization
- block trades
- Trading
- otc
- stock trading
- dark pools

Dec 19, 2025 · Trading Psychology
There Is No “Right” Way to Trade
What the Market Wizards All Had in Common While Everyone Else Argued
- Investing
- Trading
- Risk Management
- Market Wizards

Dec 17, 2025 · Strategy & Tactics
How to Train Your Eye to Spot Winning Stock Setups Before the Breakout
How to study winning stocks the right way so you can recognize setups in real time
- Momentum Trading
- chart reading
- Investing
- Trading
- Nvidia
- Growth Investing
- NVDA
- chart analysis

Dec 6, 2025 · Strategy & Tactics
How to Manage a Winning Trade: A Complete Guide Using ELF Beauty (ELF)
The 2022 to 2023 ELF run is one of the cleanest modern examples of trend following, pyramiding, and trade management working exactly as they should.
- Momentum Trading
- learn to trade
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- Stan Weinstein
- David Ryan
- Trailing Stop

Dec 2, 2025 · Legendary Traders
The 6 Market Types Every Trader Must Understand
A simple framework that shows you when to press, when to sit tight, and when to stay out
- Dr. Van Tharp
- technical analysis
- Investing
- Trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- Stock market analysis
- Stock Market
- growth stock investing

Nov 27, 2025 · Legendary Traders
The $100 Million Bet That Rewrote Trading Forever: The True Story of the Turtle Traders
How two Market Wizards proved that elite trading could be taught and turned complete beginners into multi millionaire trend followers
- Learn Trading
- Investing
- Trading
- Turtle Traders
- Stock Market
- Richard Dennis
- Systematic Trading
- Trend Following

Nov 26, 2025 · Legendary Traders
Trading Lessons from The Phantom of the Pits
The hidden rules of a mysterious Chicago trader who mastered the markets by mastering himself
- Investing
- Trading
- The Phantom of the Pits

Nov 24, 2025 · Trading Psychology
The Most Addicting Habit in Trading That Almost Never Makes You Money
Why prediction culture hurts traders more than it helps
- Trading

Nov 23, 2025 · Market Commentary
Health Care Does Not Care About the Market Pullback
The only major sector climbing while everything else pauses. Leadership is revealing itself.
- Momentum Trading
- Health Care Sector
- Investing
- Trading
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Nov 21, 2025 · Strategy & Tactics
When Good News Gets Sold, The Market Is Sending a Warning
The strongest signal in market behavior is not the news itself, but how price reacts to the news.
- Momentum Trading
- Investing
- Trading
- Stock Market

Nov 16, 2025 · Other Articles
Even William O'Neil Knew Most People Should Keep It Simple
Retirement saving advice from a growth trader that may shock you. It is not buying and selling individual growth stocks.
- Investing
- retirement
- 401k

Nov 12, 2025 · Trading Psychology
The Cost of Bias: Why Loving Your Asset Class Is a Liability
Why Emotional Attachment to Bitcoin, Stocks, Gold, or Real Estate Can Destroy Your Returns
- Investing
- Trading
- psychology of trading

Nov 10, 2025 · Legendary Traders
The Van Tharp Marble Game: The Single Most Important Lesson in Trading
How a 65% losing system can still make you rich — if you size your trades correctly
- Dr. Van Tharp
- Investing
- Trading
- Super Trader
- Trading Beyond The Matrix
- Marble Game
- Position Sizing
- Risk Management

Nov 9, 2025 · Other Articles
If I Were Starting Over: A Beginner’s Roadmap to Growth Stock Investing & Momentum Trading
A structured path to cut the noise, study what matters, and build real skill.
- Dr. Van Tharp
- Learn Trading
- Investing
- Trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- Stan Weinstein
- Learn Investing
- Nicolas Darvas

Nov 8, 2025 · Strategy & Tactics
A Low-Risk, High-Reward Entry Off the 50-Day
How multiple timeframes + confirmation gave a clean swing entry yesterday
- Momentum Trading
- Investing
- Trading
- Multiple Timeframes
- Risk Management
- swing trading

Nov 5, 2025 · Trading Psychology
Mind Gym for Traders: Why One of the Best Trading Books Isn’t About Trading at All
How an athlete’s mindset can transform your performance in the markets
- trading psychology
- Investing
- Trading
- mental game
- mind gym

Nov 1, 2025 · Legendary Traders
Stan Weinstein’s Stage Analysis: The Complete Guide to Understanding Market Structure
How to Identify Each Stage of the Market and Trade in Sync with Institutional Money
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- Investing
- Trading
- Stan Weinstein
- Stock Market
- Stage Analysis
- Stock investing

Nov 1, 2025 · Legendary Traders
The Turkey Story: William O’Neil’s Timeless Lesson on Greed and Selling Discipline
A simple story that captures one of the hardest skills in investing: knowing when enough is enough.
- Momentum Trading
- Sell Rules
- Trading
- Turkey Story
- Trend Trading
- William O'Neil
- Market Wizards
- Trend Follower

Oct 27, 2025 · Legendary Traders
The Art and Science of Position Sizing: Lessons from Van Tharp and Tom Basso
Why the size of your trade, not your entry, determines your survival.
- learn to trade
- Dr. Van Tharp
- Investing
- Trading
- Tom Basso
- Learn Investing
- Position Sizing
- Risk Management

Oct 23, 2025 · Legendary Traders
Nicolas Darvas: The Dancer Who Outsmarted Wall Street and the Timeless Lessons That Still Work Today
How a self-taught ballroom dancer turned $10,000 into $2 million and why his ideas still shape the way great traders think today.
- Momentum Trading
- learn to trade
- Investing
- Trading
- trading stocks
- Nicolas Darvas
- Stock Market
- following the trend

Oct 20, 2025 · Legendary Traders
Jesse Livermore: Lessons From the Greatest Speculator
Why his century-old rules still outperform modern tools, technology, and opinion.
- Investing
- Trading
- Jesse Livermore
- Stock Market

Oct 14, 2025 · Legendary Traders
Ed Seykota: The Systematic Trading Pioneer Who Helped Shape Modern Trend Following
How Ed Seykota helped turn a $5,000 client account into more than $15 million, and what his systems, discipline, and self-mastery still teach traders today.
- learn to trade
- trading psychology
- ed seykota
- Trading
- trading principles
- Market Wizard
- Risk Management
- trading rules

Oct 9, 2025 · Strategy & Tactics
How the Market Warns You Before the Crash (and When It’s Safe to Get Back In)
“The market always gives you clues. You just have to be willing to listen.” — Stan Weinstein
- Learn Trading
- technical analysis
- Investing
- Trading
- Learn Investing
- Stock market analysis
- Stock Market
- Bear markets

Sep 22, 2025 · Legendary Traders
Dan Zanger’s Trading Strategy: Chart Patterns, Breakouts & 10 Golden Rules
How the World-Record Trader Turned $10,775 into $18 Million Using Classic Chart Patterns, Price and Volume, Explosive Earnings Growth, Strong Industry Groups, and Strict Risk Management
- Momentum Trading
- learn to trade
- Learn Trading
- Investing
- CANSLIM
- Trading
- Growth Stock Trading
- chart patterns
