Study Market History. Identify Future Winners.

This site is about studying historical market leaders, breakouts, and trends – so you can recognize high-probability setups before they happen.

What you’ll find here:
• Historical studies of winning stocks and trends
• Breakout and trend-following chart analysis
• Risk management and position sizing principles
• Market psychology and pattern repetition

Latest Posts

Breakout Pivot and Price Extension in Base Patterns

Two traders watch the same base. The top of the range sits at 100.00 and the nearest chart-failure level is a support area at 96.00. One gets a fill at 101.00 on the...

Historical Chart Study: How to Learn From Past Breakouts

Two growth stocks finish their bases in the same quarter. Each one ran more than 100% in the months before, built a tidy six- or seven-week consolidation about 10% deep...

Pocket Pivot: How to Read Demand Before the Breakout

A growth stock has spent seven weeks moving sideways between 46.80 and 52.10. The 50-day moving average sits at 48.90 and is still rising. On a quiet Tuesday the stock...

TLRY +192%: a merger-spike base breakout that turned into a squeeze, January 2021

On 4 January 2021 Tilray closed at 90.00, 10.10 points under the 100.10 spike high its merger announcement had printed three weeks earlier. Two days later the Georgia...

High Tight Flag Pattern: The Run, the Pause, the Pivot

A growth stock climbs from 18.40 to 39.10 in seven weeks, a gain of 112.5%. Most charts that go vertical like that give a large part of the move back. This one holds...

POLA +446%: a base breakout that needed a second try, November 2020

Polar Power is back on traders’ screens this week, and per the company’s 29 September release it has a new trial order for 50 propane-fueled DC generators...

Sales Acceleration: Reading the Revenue Sequence in CAN SLIM

Two growth companies report on the same evening. The first posts revenue up 38% from the year-ago quarter, and the headline reads well. The second posts revenue up 33%...

IPO Base: Reading the First Consolidation in a New Stock

A company lists with an offer price of $22.00, opens at 31.50, trades as high as 38.20 in its first session and closes at 34.10. Six weeks later it’s trading near...

New Product Catalyst: Judging the Story Behind a Leader

A mid-sized company issues a press release before the open. It describes a new product as “transformational” and “category-defining,” names a...

Earnings Gap: Reading a Stock’s Reaction to Results

A growth company reports quarterly earnings per share up 41% on sales up 28%, both ahead of the published estimates. The stock opens 12.2% higher the next morning. By the...

Leading Stocks: Reading a Leader Group Against the Index

Picture an index chart that looks healthy. It closed the week at a new high, its 50-day moving average is rising, and the heaviest volume sessions of the month were up...

Institutional Sponsorship: How to Read the I in CAN SLIM

Picture two growth companies that pass the same earnings screen in the same week. Both reported quarterly earnings per share up more than 40% for two straight quarters...