
Identify uptrends and the right time to buy stocks, avoid trying to catch the bottom, and follow the trend to join winning teams and beat the market.
Traders drive prices in a bear market with collective emotions, not fundamentals, as prices make lower lows and lower highs through a cycle of anxiety, denial, and capitulation.
Bear markets end in a capitulation phase where long declines trigger a final rapid drop as exhausted sellers exit; later, buyers re-enter and the market shifts to a bull.
The accumulation phase marks the start of a young bull market, driven by contrarians and reversal hunters who buy as sellers exhaust.
Explore how the diffusion of innovations shapes bull market phases, highlighting innovators, early adopters, and contrarians, and show how 2.5% of traders drive accumulation.
Learn to build a demand channel as a safety net by combining the upward slope of the 50-day moving average with the 89 exponential moving average to catch deeper pullbacks.
Use RSI to confirm trend strength, buy pullbacks after a 60‑day high and RSI over 68, while pullbacks test the 50‑day moving average and 89‑EMA demand channel and 40 support.
Identify entry opportunities in uptrends using the CAT Trend indicator, RSI and Cap RSI signals, and the green demand channel to pullbacks that hold support.
Explore how the demand channel and green dots indicate trend strength and entry points, and learn a simple tweak from a 50-day to a 58-day moving average to improve signals.
A green candle shows the day’s range from low to high, with a body that reflects the open-to-close rise and upper and lower tails signaling intraday bulls and bears.
Learn how a long lower tail on a candlestick signals an intraday bullish reversal, showing how bulls reclaim the day despite late selling pressure.
Explore how to manage a failed first entry in a trend trade using RSA confirmations, bullish reversal patterns like bullish engulfing, and protective stop placement within a rising demand channel.
Discover how price lingers in a bullish wedge, forms two a-b-c zig-zags within a green diamond demand channel and a red trendline resistance, with RSI above 40 signaling an uptrend.
Sell at the supply zone for STMP with staged exits at the lower and upper edges, guided by bullish engulfing, micro wedge, and bullish flag breakout patterns.
Create and organize watch lists to track trends and internals, copy stocks between lists, and view lists as 10 per page for quick scanning.
Learn to customize stock charts by adjusting gridlines, color moving averages, save default styles, and create layouts to view S&P 500 and Nasdaq across different data ranges.
Add a condition to filter stocks that are trading up, using the 50-day simple moving average with a positive slope to trigger a green channel, reducing candidates to 732.
Use RSI to assess trend strength by requiring the maximum RSI of the last 20 bars to be at least 68, then run the scan to yield 391 results.
Learn to identify stocks that tested support at the 50 day moving average by combining higher highs, RSI signals, and a fast scan of charts, with saved, styled results.
Observe how a doji at the 50 day moving average with an 8 ema crossover, plus protective stops and a mogaji indicator, signals a trend rally.
Learn to identify reliable long-entry triggers using the dodgy buy signal, 50-day moving average interactions, and EMA or MACD crossovers, with entry only after price tests the demand channel.
Create a secondary scan for the buy trigger on marathoners, using daily close over 8 EMA or MACD histogram crossover, with yesterday’s values for confirmation.
A new scan we called the ***Buy Trigger*** lets us focus on immediate actionable buy setups.
We apply that scan only to pre-selected watchlist that are comprised of strong stocks that were selected by scans ***Champions*** and ***Marathoners***.
This is why all that matters to us is location of price in comparison to two short term moving averages, 8 EMA and 21 EMA on a daily timeframe.
We need to create a special layout that would make it easier for us to evaluate potential buy setups at one glance.
Review buy setups from the buy trigger scan as stocks close above the 8 ema, with RSI supporting uptrends and protective stops guiding risk management.
1. Review of stocks returned by the Marathoners scan on oct 18, 2021.
2. Selection of attractive stock setups that may trigger a buy signal in November 2021.
3. Creating a new watch list *** November 2021 *** to save attractive stock setups in upcoming weeks.
In that lesson we review the whole though process that brought us from the initial checklist to the checklist of the scan "Champions" and then to the check list of the scan "Marathoners".
We conclude that we should always check every setup for conditions of those two main checklists.
The best winning setups have to meet requirements of both scans, the Champions and the Marathoners.
Examine why breakout trades can fail and learn to ride strong trends using the 8 and 21 ema lines, daily closes, abc pullbacks, and protective stops.
Create the sprinters scanner to spot uptrending stocks pulling back to the 21 IMI within the green demand channel formed by the 50 sma and 89 ema, with RSI thresholds.
One of the benefits of working with a scanner at stockcharts.com is that it allows us to filter stocks using relative strength. Many traders know that IBD.com calculates relative strength for stocks and that is probably the most important criteria for their famous IBD 50 stock list.
The StockCharts Technical Rank (SCTR) is a numerical score that ranks a stock within a group of stocks. Stocks are assigned a score based on six key indicators covering different timeframes. These indicators scores are then sorted and assigned a technical rank. By using SCTR in your custom scanner you can quickly identify the technical leaders within a specific group.
In the video I explain how to use my "CAT Volume Accumulation" Indicator for TradingView to find volume accumulation patterns.
You can find that indicator here:
https://www.tradingview.com/script/LWdXEMxd-CAT-Volume-Accumulation/
This indicator colors volume bars depending on change in price and volume . It helps traders to identify volume accumulation patterns.
The main interest for us is clusters of the blue bars and large green bars.
The blue volume bars are up days with unusually high trading volume .
Green bars are up days with normal trading volume .
Red bars are down days with elevated trading volume . It is not advisable to buy a stock on a day like that.
It makes sense to wait until a red down down is followed by a gray day, when price stop making lower low and trading volume dries down. That is a signal that bears lost momentum.
If we see a cluster of several blue bars that tells us there are institutional buyers building a position out there.
If we get a pullback that follows that volume accumulation pattern represented by several blue and large green bars that increases our chances for continuation of the move higher after a pullback.
Here you can read more about calculation of Bullish Percent Index:
https://school.stockcharts.com/doku.php?id=market_indicators:bullish_percent_index
You can find the full list of Bullish Percent Indices calculated by StockCharts.com here:
https://stockcharts.com/search/?q=%22Bullish%20Percent%20Indices%22§ion=symbols
I’m very excited to share with you the best trading setups I personally learned over my 20+ years career of trading stocks.
My goal in this course is to convince you to focus on trading strong trending stocks.
You will learn how to benefit from an established bullish momentum pushing stock prices to new highs.
I will introduce you to the most common technical indicators like Moving Average or Relative Strength Index and explain how we can build proprietary trading strategies out of those commonly available tools. We will review the most common corrective patterns: wedges, flags and pennants and we will make them part of our strategies. I will explain how to read my favorite candlestick patterns to improve trading results.
I will share with you my proprietary codes for scanning stocks and my proprietary indicator for TradingView trading platform.
I will share with you actionable checklists that should help you to become a disciplined rule-based trader. We will review numerous stock charts to see how those three strategies worked out in the recent past.
You do not need any prior experience in trading or coding to benefit from this course.
What You will learn:
- Apply rules of three checklists to find buyable pullbacks in strong trending stocks.
- Build three custom scanners to find winning trading setups.
- Turn results of scanning into watchlists and find buy triggers among pre-selected stocks.