Build a momentum stock system: buy strength that keeps proving itself
The style that feels wrong on purpose: buying what already went up. Eight guides from the evidence that strength persists, through the research on 52-week highs, to a repeatable loop — screen for leaders, confirm with volume, enter on the pullback, and handle the winners that pay for every small failure.
Before this path
- Choose how you trade before you choose what to tradeMomentum is a holding-period commitment as much as a stock-picking method. That path is where you fix the weeks-to-months horizon this style's evidence actually lives on.
What you will be able to do
- Explain why 'it already went up' is not a reason to skip a stock — and cite the research
- Build a new-highs screen and treat its output as candidates, not signals
- Check volume before trusting a breakout with money
- Handle winners so the few big ones pay for the many small stop-outs
The path, in order
- “Buy Low, Sell High” Is a Style, Not a Law — and It Has a Time HorizonThe premise, argued against everyone's first instinct: in the weeks-to-months window, strength persists. This step is why the rest of the path shops from the leaders list instead of the bargain bin.Charts & market structure7 min read
- Buying at the 52-Week High: The Research Behind the Ugliest-Feeling EntryThe premise upgraded to published evidence, plus the working screen: nearness to the 52-week high predicted returns better than past returns did — and the anchor that makes the entry feel expensive is the mechanism itself.Picking & holding stocks6 min read
- What Volume Tells You, and What It Does NotThe confirmation layer. A new high on expanding volume and a new high on air are different events, and this is the guide that teaches you to tell them apart before the breakout has your money.Charts & market structure6 min read
- CANSLIM Explained — Seven Filters, and the Two That Do Most of the RejectingA complete momentum system that has run for decades: earnings filters in front, the new-high 'N' in the middle, and a hard sell rule behind. Read it as the worked example of everything so far.Picking & holding stocks10 min read
- Three Swing Trading Rules — Wait for the Hard Trade, Then Follow the TrendThe entry timing the screen does not give you: the leader, bought on its pullback rather than chased on its breakout — with the trigger and invalidation defined before entry.Risk & trading system6 min read
- Where to Set a Stop Loss, and When to Move ItMomentum's failure mode is sharp reversal, so the invalidation is structural: below the level that made the trade a trade. Place it, size from it, and stop watching the feeling.Risk & trading system10 min read
- Your Best Ideas Are Not the ProblemThe study that shows where momentum returns actually come from: not picking winners — most picks lose — but handling. Run the winners, amputate the losers, and the arithmetic works.Risk & trading system9 min read
- R-Multiples and Expectancy: The Only Two Numbers a Trading Record NeedsCloses the loop with the scorecard: express every outcome in R, and the record shows whether your handling is producing the few large multiples this style depends on.Risk & trading system10 min read
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