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

NVAX +1458%: the base breakout before the vaccine run, April 2020

In the first week of April 2020, NVAX printed the kind of quiet breakout most traders scroll past. The stock cleared a 14.93 pivot and closed the session at 15.61, with...

Market Efficiency: A Framework for Judging Your Edge

A screen you built over the weekend just lit up. Across ten years of history it turned a modest stake into something that looks a lot like skill: the equity curve climbs...

CAR +420%: the base breakout that kept running, February 2021

When CAR turns up on traders’ screens again, like this week’s return to the StockTwits trending list, the chart worth studying is the CAR base breakout from...

FSLY +123%: the earnings-gap base breakout, May 2020

FSLY is back on traders’ screens this week, climbing the StockTwits trending list, so it’s a good moment to pull up the chart that made it worth studying in...

CVNA +177%: a base breakout off the lows, June 2023

In the spring of 2023 Carvana looked finished. The stock had fallen from the mid-teens to 71 cents inside a year, and most of the tape had left it for dead. Then it...

Beta and Idiosyncratic Risk: Splitting Market and Stock

You close the week with a position down three percent, and there’s a question worth asking before you touch anything: does the loss say something about your thesis...

Take-Profit Strategy: The Overlooked Half of Exits

You are up on a position. The chart has run your way for six sessions, the gain is real on the screen, and the only question left is where you take it off. Set the exit...

INCY +489%: a base breakout in the genomics mania, December 1999

By late July 2026, INCY is back near the top of the day’s gainers list as Incyte heads into its Q2 2026 earnings report, and that is reason enough to pull an old...

Trading Around Macro Data Releases: Why the Chart Breaks

You’re long a clean setup. Price has held a shelf for two sessions, the anchored VWAP off the low keeps rising, and order flow has leaned to the bid since the open...

W +486%: the base breakout out of the COVID crash, April 2020

Wayfair (W) is trending again, sitting near the top of the day’s gainers on 27 July 2026 as brokers hike their price targets into the company’s 4 August...

Trend Following Systems: Three Ways to Read a Trend

You pull up a chart of a stock that’s clearly been climbing for months. The 50-day moving average sits comfortably above the 200-day, so your trend filter says...

Bull Flag Pattern: How the Flagpole Defines the Setup

A stock runs 30% in six sessions, then goes quiet. The candles shrink, the volume dries up, and price drifts sideways for a week. Most traders read that stall as the move...