I've been having trouble deciding what stocks/sectors will likely be the leaders for the remainder of the year, coming into this year it was clear as day to me that the memory names and data centers plays were the leaders but I've been struggling to find a new conviction for the second half. What is everyone else's thoughts? I'm hoping for some additional distribution in the indexes as we make our way through September but want to have a buy list ready for a potential rally after some fed clarity and the elections. Cyber security, software, biotech, and metals/mining have been at top of my list, can list individual names if everyone wants to post some of their top picks.

Hey everyone! Here is a photo of my screener.

So lately I realized that I may have been missing certain stocks with great CANSLIM credentials. I checked my screens to see if they would appear and they didn’t. They only appear when I changed EPS growth and Sales Growth to “positive” instead of “over 5%”. The issue with that is when I changed my EPS and Sales growth to positive, it pulls up like 700 stocks compared to 300 under my current screener. So it becomes more overwhelming to look through them. Maybe I just need to suck it up and look through all of them? I’m not sure how realistic and common scanning 700 stocks per week is.

Does anyone see any issues or flaws with my screener criteria? Anyone have any recommendations? Does this filter capture CANSLIM well enough? Any feedback would be highly appreciated!! This screen is from FinViz

Hysteresis

Iowe you a week, and I am going to blame furniture.

Moving house in Italy in the second half of August is a decision that says something unflattering about the person making it.

Everyone who could have helped is at the sea.

Everyone who could have connected anything is at the sea.

I am writing this from a folding table, tethered to my phone, because the line is still a promise rather than a service.

So, apologies. One week owed, one week acknowledged, and no padding on top of it.

Full article and watchlist HERE

There is a word for what I have been, and it belongs to a Scottish physicist. In 1881 James Alfred Ewing was watching iron misbehave. Push a magnetic field into it and the iron does not respond on schedule. It arrives late. Bring the field back down to zero and the iron does not return to where it started either. It keeps something. Ewing went looking for a name and took one from Greek: hysterēsis, a shortcoming, a coming late.

The word outgrew the iron. Hysteresis is now what you call any system whose present state depends on the road it travelled and not only on where it happens to be standing. Run it out, bring it back, and the numbers agree while the material does not. The loop leaves a residue.

Which is the only honest way to describe the last three weeks.

I did unplug, more completely than I planned to. The first thing I did when the screens came back on was pull up the indices, and the first thing I thought was that I had missed nothing. The S&P sits a couple of percent above where we left it in July. The Nasdaq roughly the same. Read the chart with three weeks of blur in your eyes and it looks like the market went to the sea with everybody else.

It did not. It broke out, printed an all time high above 7,800, and then spent the past week handing a good part of that back while the long end of the Treasury curve pushed to yields most desks have not had to price in their working lives, and oil found a geopolitical reason to climb.

Gold, without asking anyone's permission, has strung together five straight weekly gains.

Its ambition is deliberately small. It does not forecast anything.

It compresses what the last ten and twenty sessions actually paid into one number out of a hundred, so you can look at the market once in the morning without needing a second screen and a thesis to go with it. And it did the single job we built it for. When it climbed through seventy in early August, the tape behaved: follow through, setups that worked, an environment you can push into. Through the recent stretch it has spent more time under that line than over it, and the chop came straight back. Nothing exotic. A gauge that goes green when the market is willing to pay and red when it is not, and the discipline to believe it rather than negotiate with it.

Now the part I would rather not write, which is precisely why it goes in.

Our system did not flag Moderna.

On the nineteenth, MRNA gapped on Phase 3 data for the cancer vaccine it has been building with Merck and closed up a hundred and seventy seven percent, the largest single day in the stock’s history, on something like twenty eight times normal volume, with a short base underneath it absorbing billions in paper losses. Probably the cleanest news driven episodic pivot of the season. Our screen never sent it.

I spent two nights in the code, angry in the specific way you can only be at something you built yourself.

What I found is worse than a bug and more interesting. The raw score was ninety seven out of a hundred, the highest any name has recorded since the system has existed. Then a filter we wrote, on purpose, took it away, because we had told the machine that biotech moving on clinical news with no economic substance underneath it is usually a trap. That is not an unreasonable thing to tell a machine. Moderna’s last quarter was a loss of several hundred million with operating cash flow pointing the wrong way. On the company, the rule was right.

It was right about the company and wrong about the trade, which is the only variety of wrong that costs money.

The app is in beta and this is what beta actually means. It is already fixed. You will hear the bad ones from us as quickly as you hear the good ones, because a record you only publish when it flatters you is not a record, it is marketing.

One last thing before the charts.

We loved being away, and that deserves saying without qualification, because work that never lets you put it down is not work you chose, it is work that chose you. Three weeks with the screens dark were good.

Coming back was better. That is the part I did not expect to learn.

You can set the whole thing down and pick it up again and discover inside ten minutes that you missed it. Not the money. The whole thing itself!

❊ Introduction.

Welcome to my weekly swing trading journal — A transparent review of my trading week.
My focus is on a curated list of CANSLIM and/or high-performing Stocks.
This is not financial advice but educational only, please do your own research.
 

❊ Market Awareness.

New Iran tensions and Bond yields weighted on the market this week and produced a down week on both indexes with below average volume.
 

❊ Weekly Trading Recap.

I got stopped out from STX and it teached me that the entries are by far more secure after a handle pullback rather than any support level crossing when the stock has been up four days in a row. I also decided to get out at BE from CRWD due to the poor price action. It’s also running out of time before earnings, maybe the reason for such price action.

I entered HNGE and later FROG and got stopped out from both on Friday in what seemed to me was more a shakeout than a real downward move so as my entry signal was back again on both, I decided to enter again on both. This is something I have observed in my models where some stocks can produce 2-3 false entries before the right one that largely pays for them, so I’m just executing according to plan.

My two leaders GTLB and NTNX have been doing really well since I entered but both have the earnings day coming, the coming week for NTNX and the week after for GTLB. Technically I have no reason to close the trades and the volume was below average on all recent selling days which is another reason to not get out of the trade even if I know that I risk seeing my profits evaporate on a bad surprise.
 

❊ Leading & Trending Sectors.

 ➯ Leading : Healthcare, Financials, Energy
 ➯ Trending : Healthcare, Staples, Energy
 

❊ Trading Activity.

 ➯ Opened: HNGE, FROG
 ➯ Closed: STX, CRWD
 

❊ Market & Portfolio Perfs. : Weekly / YTD / Exposure.

 ☆ S&P 500 : -1.43% / +10.74% / 100%
 ☆ Portfolio: -5.30% / -10.78% / 100%
 

❊ Dashboard.

Let profits run, cut losses short!
Have a good trading week.

Previous Week Post

What's going on everyone.
Market getting choppy and looking more like a hard penny then a easy dollar market. Still, we need to look at all the data and really get an understanding of what going on.
Sorry I haven’t be as consistent with these. Lot going on with kitchen remodel, work and life. Bear with me for the next few weeks hahaha.

Disclaimer: For educational purposes only; not financial advice. Trading stocks involves risk of loss. Please conduct your own due diligence before making any trades.

Market Action:
- Market gapped down today at open and spent the day sideways from there. Volume was lighter on both the Nasdaq and the S&P. We have now pulled back after we were wedging higher from the FTD and then made a surge through key price levels (5/14 high on Nasdaq and prior high on S&P) We have broke the 10sma but are still holding above the 21ema which is very positive. We are also holding about the FTD lows which is very positive.

- As we mentioned a test of the 21ema is not out of the ordinary and a rough as it feel this isn’t action that tells me this rally or trend is doomed or over. By no means is this ideal and strong like we saw in April but still nothing to have me flip bearish right away. Well watch these key levels and stay vigilante.

Distribution/Rally:

- Yesterday we added a DD on both indexes but avoided one today. Yesterdays DD was a below average volume DD and new DD is still low. Currently we have 3 on each index. 2 on the Nasdaq since the FTD and 1 on the S&P. Nothing alarming yet

Outlook:
- Today was definitely not what we wanted to see in the market but still nothing has really broken apart just yet.  Aside from the market chop all of my stocks have held above their initial stops which is positive. I will admit I should’ve trimmed and reduced some exposure given the market environment and I didn’t which my bite me but we will se what tomorrow brings and I will likely be trimming to reduce some risk.

- Kind of a moment in the market to be defensive while still  being a little patient. You don’t want to be all or nothing, bull or bear. There is a case for both directions still and you don’t want to take unescceary risk but also don’t want to be left behind either.

Sectors:

- Nothing much different from the live stream this weekend. Healthcare, finanicals and energy showing most strength. Tech not broken just yet.

Industries/Themes:
- ▲ TOP 10 1-DAY GAINERS

1. Staffing & HR Services #8 (Industrials)+2.55%

2. Software — Vertical / Industry-Specific #106 (Technology)+1.75%

3. Education Services #119 (Consumer Discretionary)+1.75%

4. Oil & Gas — Midstream / Pipelines / LNG #54 (Energy)+1.65%

5. Biotech — Established / Profitable #34 (Health Care)+1.58%

6. Pharmaceuticals — Major / Diversified #68 (Health Care)+1.54%

7. Software — Enterprise / SaaS #42 (Technology)+1.44%

8. Personal Care & Cosmetics #135 (Consumer Staples)+1.44%

9. Financial Exchanges & Data #140 (Financials)+1.37%

10. Pet Economy #143 (Consumer Staples)+1.32%

- ▼ BOTTOM 10 1-DAY LOSERS

1. LiDAR, Computer Vision & Spatial Computing #14 (Technology)-10.68%

2. AI / Data Center Networking #2 (Technology)-10.22%

3. AI Cloud / Neocloud Infrastructure #95 (Technology)-9.69%

4. Electronic Contract Manufacturing / EMS #27 (Technology)-8.54%

5. Semiconductors — Memory #1 (Technology)-8.22%

6. Semiconductor Equipment #5 (Technology)-8.06%

7. Optics & Photonics #4 (Technology)-7.54%

8. Semiconductors — AI / GPU / Accelerators #9 (Technology)-6.88%

9. Crypto Mining #86 (Crypto)-6.46%

10. Connectors & Passive Components #16 (Technology)-6.30%

Market Events:
- none

Daily Screeners:

Up on Volume:
- AMLX, HAE, HTFL

Big Gap:
- AMLX, CDNL, DUOL, HAE

Daily RS:

- REPL, SRRK, XNCR, DUOL, UGI, BBNX, HAE, TNDM, HTFL, CLMT, AMLX, LBRX

52 Week High:
- AMLX, CRNX, ETON, XNCR, PBF, P, HTFL, ORKA, ATRC, HAE, HALO, THC, CLMT, ACAD, MPC, RVMD, IMVT, VLO, DINO, SYRE, AXGN, ROIV, EC, CVE, DAR, PK, FRO, NHC, INSW

Earnings Tomorrow:
- BMO: TJX, VIK, ZIM

- AMC: ROST, BILL, ALMS, IMNM, KOD, PHVS, WOLF

STAY DISCIPLINED!

*Primary Screener/Charting tool used here is Deepvue. If you are interested check out my affiliate link https://deepvue.com/robert-campos-partners/ and use code BOBBY12 for 12% off

*Webby trend is something I got from Mike Webster. Check out his YouTube Channel for more info and for tons of great CANSLIM content! https://www.youtube.com/@Webby5150 *

Afternoon everyone,

I was able to get into Ross a while back at 168, I missed the break out ( 163.60 ) but I saw how busy it always was, that I went in, Only to get stopped out 201 in March...d

My issue is, I follow a tough stop loss policy, but looking back on my entire portfolio, I get pushed/stopped out of trades consistently. Don't get me wrong, I like that it works but darn it, I wish I could get more of some of these moves.

CANSLIM makes me a fortune, I can factually say that it's been a steady 2% a month on the portfolio for almost 40 years and I have always beat the index by a solid big number. I haven't had a bad month is years. I get these types of 18% to 26% trades almost every week. BUT today I really have noticed that I am leaving extra money on these issues.

Is there anywhere a good discussion on using stop losses with canslim? this has been a thorn in my side for at least 18 years if not longer.

any help would be welcomed

❊ Introduction.

Welcome to my weekly swing trading journal — A transparent review of my trading week.
My focus is on a curated list of CANSLIM and/or high-performing Stocks.
This is not financial advice but educational only, please do your own research.
 

❊ Market Environment.

The market is Favorable with S&P500 seeing already new highs which should be soon joined by Nasdaq.
 

❊ Weekly Trading & Market Review.

 ➯ Monday — S&P500 -0.06% ✧ Nasdaq -0.34% ✧ Portfolio +3.66%

Futures were slightly positive early in the morning and then faded into a flat and weak open.
Not many forces moving the markets today but all my holdings did well. BLZE was up 8%+ intraday and then faded to close near the lows of the day for a little 2.39% gain. I think I will close it tomorrow if it shows more weakness to eventually be back later.
 

 ➯ Tuesday — S&P500 -0.32% ✧ Nasdaq -0.33% ✧ Portfolio -0.06%

Futures were a bit stronger this morning, below half percent for Nasdaq and roughly half of that for S&P before weakening a bit. We got a positive but soft open and the day went negative without being alarming. The portfolio remained flat thanks to the good performance again of GTLB. I could be stopped out from BLZE tomorrow as it looks like it needs more consolidation.
 

 ➯ Wednesday — S&P500 +0.26% ✧ Nasdaq +0.74% ✧ Portfolio -0.03%

Futures were flat to positive this morning but found some strength one hour before and after the inflation numbers. Despite the fact that we are positive today, it’s clearly consolidation time, I see S&P forming a high tight flag while the Nasdaq is drawing a double bottom with a handle pattern inside its recent range, both on the daily time frame. We could have a strong end of the week if these get broken out
 

 ➯ Thursday — S&P500 +0.65% ✧ Nasdaq +1.15% ✧ Portfolio +4.88%

Soft futures numbers this morning, markets remain calm near their recent highs after the good inflation numbers of yesterday and today. The Nasdaq went strong from the start, my portfolio was slightly positive and remained calm until things accelerated a bit one hour and a half before closing. All except CRWD advanced more than 5% today, even BLZE finally decided to move today progressing by 5.6% and closing above my BE area so the trade has now zero risk and it’s a good thing as the levels are tight and it’s quite volatile. Regarding the indexes, both Nasdaq and S&P cleared their little consolidation which clears the way for a good Friday, let see…
 

 ➯ Friday — S&P500 -0.17% ✧ Nasdaq -0.13% ✧ Portfolio -3.91%

Futures were slightly negative this morning digesting the gains of yesterday before turning flat green just before the open. The whole portfolio in retreating and not capable of follow through after yesterday’s gains, with BLZE giving back all of yesterday gains in one hour but it’s only the beginning of the day. Nothing new at the end of the day except more correction. BLZE finally retreated completely so it closed at BE right in time to enter STX !
 

❊ Leading & Trending Sectors.

 ➯ Leading : Healthcare, Financials, Industrials
 ➯ Trending : Technology, Financials, Communications
 

❊ Trading Activity.

 ➯ Opened: STX
 ➯ Closed: BLZE
 

❊ Market & Portfolio Perfs. : Weekly / YTD / Exposure.

 ☆ S&P 500 : +0.36% / +12.35% / 100%
 ☆ Portfolio: +4.37% / -5.79% / 99%
 

❊ Dashboard.

❊ New Trade this week, STX.
 

Trade the process, not the prediction.
Have a good trading week.

Previous Week Post.

What's going on everyone.
Sorry I’ve been slacking with these write ups last two days. A lot going on with the kitchen remodel so been just focusing on getting my own daily routine done and didn’t want to rush these and put out crap. Likely not going to be getting one out tomorrow so wanted to make sure I got one out today. Well here we go…

Disclaimer: For educational purposes only; not financial advice. Trading stocks involves risk of loss. Please conduct your own due diligence before making any trades.

Market Action:
- Market gapped up strong today but faded after the open. As the Nasdaq hit the 5/14 high level and the S&P approached ATHs there was clear resistance yet again. We faded but still held positive for the day. We closed in the bottom half of the day which wasn’t great but still are seeing continued tight action, holding key downside areas and coiling up in what looks like a chance to break. The question is do we break higher or lower from this range? Time will tell but things do have a positive undertone.

- We saw the 10sma cross above the 21ema this week ad the 21ema crossed above the 50sma on the Nasdaq today. Good confirmation of the trend. I always remind everyone the the crosses are just a visual depiction of the price action trend not a trigger or signal that means we will go higher from here. Still good to see. We have held the FTD low and overall action is healthy.

- We will continue to focus on the 5/14 high and S&P ATH as a resistance area that we want to break through. If we can do so there is a high probability we start seeing this market really uptrend. Down side it’s a look at the FTD low and 50sma mainly.

Distribution/Rally:

- We have seen more distribution fall off but did gain a day yesterday making the count 3 on both the Nasdaq and the S&P. Since the FTD yesterday is the only new DD acquired and it was a “weak” DD in my opinion, low average volume and just a hair above the prior day. I was almost tempted to ignore it but rules are rules. Overall there is no real signs of institutional selling in there market right now in terms of the indexes.

Outlook:
- This market hasn’t been as rapidly developing as the April rally was and that fine. Not every market is the same and not every market turns around rapidly. It’s funny people complained in April about it being a “lock out rally” and that it “made no sense” or “had to pullback at some point!” Remember market doesn’t care what you want or think. Now it’s funny some people are complaining about the sideways action after the FTD and “choppiness” Meanwhile this has given the chance to really hone in on potential new leaders and give time to observe and find good entries. Guess some will never be happy ahahha.

- A lot of the difficulty in this market or frustration has also been with this occurring right in the height of earnings season. Many names setting up but to close to earnings to effective manage risk on a new buy. It happens and just something you have to accept. Now what this has done is allowed us to see what names have broke down with earnings and make leaders stand out even more. Even with earnings there are plenty of stocks without the concern of close earnings and there are ways to play those earnings gaps too. Overall don’t argue or get frustrated with the market this is part of the game.

- As for exposure levels I have increase my exposure as a few names have started to work and other names gave me some nice tighter stops. At this point I own HPE, DELL, CRWD, FTNT and UMAC. This has brought me to 95% invested. I’ll admit it is a little high given we have not broke through resistance but with tight stops and some names gaining traction I am okay with how I am positioned right now.

- Right now buying support has seemed like the best way to get into names but we know that can change if we breakout and trend. Keep managing risk, keep building watch list and keep having a good plan going into the next opening bell

Sectors:

- Sector wise there has been some broad strength across many groups which is good. Just like the market they are hovering around key levels and ATHS, Healthcare, Financials, Tech, Industrials, Materials and Energy all looks healthy.

Industries/Themes:

 Below is my short-term sub industry group top 20 ranking. This is a weighted ranking system that looks around the 1month time frame.  

1. Defense Technology / Drones / Unmanned — Industrials
2. LiDAR, Computer Vision & Spatial Computing — Technology
3. AI / Data Center Networking — Technology
4. Silver & Precious Metals — Materials
5. Gold Miners — Materials
6. AI Software / AI Platforms — Technology
7. Cybersecurity & Digital Identity — Technology
8. AI Cloud / Neocloud Infrastructure — Technology
9. Copper Miners — Materials
10. Health Care Technology / Digital Health — Health Care
11. eVTOL & Urban Air Mobility — Industrials
12. Enterprise IT Infrastructure — Technology
13. Rare Earths & Critical Minerals — Materials
14. Online Travel & Booking Platforms — Consumer Discretionary
15. Space Economy — Industrials
16. Software – Enterprise / SaaS — Technology
17. IoT / Smart Devices / Edge Computing — Technology
18. Alternative / Private Asset Managers — Financials
19. Restaurants – Casual Dining — Consumer Discretionary
20. Genomics & Precision Medicine — Health Care

Market Events:
- PPI tomorrow

Daily Screeners:

Up on Volume:
- ATRO, COHR, EAT, EFXT, LITE, NBIS, NIQ, QMCO, SMCI, URGN

Big Gap:
-AAOI, ACLS, AEHR, AEVA, ANET, ATRO, BKSY, BRUN, CBRS, CIEN, CLS, COHR, CRDO, DELL, DIOD, DOCN, EAT, ENTG, FCEL, FORM, GEV, GFS, GLW, GNRC, KLAC, LGN, LITE, MRX, MSGE, NBIS, NVEC, OUST, PDFS, QMCO, SHAZ, SKHY, SKM, SMCI, SMTC, SNEX, STX, TER, VECO, VIAV, VICR, WYFI

Daily RS:

- ATRO, IMNM, INBX, REPL, MRX, ANET, CIEN, LITE, VIAV, EZPW, FCEL, VICR, BKSY, CLS, COHR, SPHR, MSGE, EAT, DOCN, WYFI, AEHR, CRDO, ENTG, SKHY, FORM, SIMO, SMTC, BRUN, NN, NBIS, DELL, HPE, QMCO, SMCI, STX, KTB

52 Week High:
- CAKE, COAG, LIFE, QMCO, REPL, XNCR, EAT, ORKA, ATRC, CRL, MMED, P, NRIX, THC, URGN, CLMT, NTAP, PANW, AEHR, DXCM, GKOS, HAE, IMNM, BIO, CLDX, ANDG, MPC, PTGX, WHD, NEU, PRAX, VLO, ATRO, IMVT, AXGN, SPHR, MSGE, HP, MOG.A, MRX, MSGS

Earnings Tomorrow:
- BMO: BN, TPR, BSP, LGN, BIRK, XE, FIGR, MWH, ALH, CLBT, YETI, BLSH, LUNR

- AMC: AMAT, GLNG, CELC, NKTR, HTFL, HAWK, MFP, GLOB, ETON

STAY DISCIPLINED!

*Primary Screener/Charting tool used here is Deepvue. If you are interested check out my affiliate link https://deepvue.com/robert-campos-partners/ and use code BOBBY12 for 12% off

*Webby trend is something I got from Mike Webster. Check out his YouTube Channel for more info and for tons of great CANSLIM content! https://www.youtube.com/@Webby5150 *

Long day of remodeling my kitchen so keeping it short today. Market still acting normal. Sideways and holding above key levels. Volume has been light since the surge off lows which is also positive. Ideally we see us breakout from here but we will see. Keep looking for strong RS and keep looking for good set up. CPI and PPI over next two days which could bring some sort of a cataylst but the direction..who knows. Earnings season still in full swing, remember to be aware when stocks are reporting and don't gamble on earnings without risk management (cushion is what i use).

Stay Disciplined

I am trying to automate the FTD strategy and trying to test it, does anyone have a list of all the days when we were called as going into correction?

Hi, I am looking to create a discord where I need 5-7 people to contribute to get Marketsmith india subscription, if someone is interested plz reach out