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The breakout screener that publishes every prediction — and grades itself in the open.

Markets walk randomly — until they don’t. We find the gradient.

No backtestsNo chart patternsEvery call logged & graded

Live, in the open

Every prediction is logged the day it’s made and graded automatically. No backtests, no hindsight — audit the raw record yourself.

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A statistically honest breakout screener. Every night it scans ~6,900 US stocks for both breakouts and breakdowns, ranks each setup by a transparent quality score, and logs every prediction — with its exact entry, stop and target — to a public forward track record. Trust is earned out-of-sample, not with cherry-picked backtests.

The record is young — it started recording on the first live scan and grows one night at a time. No paper profits, no promises: just what the math actually called, out in the open.

How it works

+2R targetsqueeze (compression)confirmed break

Illustration — compression, then a confirmed break. Not real results.

  1. 01

    Detect the squeeze

    Find stocks whose volatility has compressed into the calmest quartile of their own year — a coiled spring, measured (Yang-Zhang), not eyeballed.

  2. 02

    Confirm the break

    Require a new N-day high (or low) out of that squeeze, in a trending regime (Hurst), with a real change-point (CUSUM) and volume behind it.

  3. 03

    Log it & grade it

    Ship a complete R-based plan — entry, stop, target, horizon — logged the day it’s made, then graded automatically. In the open, forever.

The math behind a setup

A setup fires only when all of these align on the same bar. Each is a mathematical definition — no drawn trendlines, no discretion.

  1. 01Volatility squeeze — Realized volatility via the Yang-Zhang OHLC estimator (drift- and gap-aware), ranked into a percentile of its own trailing year. Must sit in the bottom quartile (≤ 25th percentile) — and it’s measured a few bars before the break so the breakout’s own move doesn’t inflate it. Low percentile = compressed = coiled spring.
  2. 02Donchian breakout — Today’s close makes a new 20-day high (long) or 20-day low (short) — the actual break out of the channel.
  3. 03Trend regime — Hurst > 0.5 — The Hurst exponent (rescaled-range R/S analysis). H > 0.5 is persistent/trending, so a break tends to follow through; H < 0.5 is mean-reverting and is filtered out.
  4. 04Change-point — CUSUM — Page’s one-sided CUSUM on standardized log returns (slack k = 0.5, decision threshold 5), with a recency gate. A statistically significant regime shift must have just happened — not random drift.
  5. 05Volume confirmation — Today’s volume as a robust z-score — (volume − median) / (1.4826 · MAD) over the trailing 20 bars — must clear 2σ. Real participation, not a thin-tape fakeout.
  6. 06Liquidity floor — Price ≥ $5 and median daily dollar-volume (close × volume) ≥ $1M — tradeable names only, no penny stocks.

Risk & plan. Risk is sized off the ATR (Average True Range, 20-day). One unit of risk is 1R = 2 · ATR: stop = entry − 2·ATR (long), target = entry + 2R, horizon = 20 trading days. Everything downstream is quoted in R, so a $5 and a $500 stock are compared on the same scale.

Quality score (0–100). An equal-weighted blend of the four gate strengths — squeeze tightness, Hurst, CUSUM magnitude, and volume z. It ranks setups, but it’s a heuristic, not a calibrated probability (that’s still withheld until enough trades mature).

What you’ll see inside

Every night: ranked setups with the math behind each one, a breakout chart, and every variant’s plan — plus the full record of how past calls turned out. Then size positions to your account (equally or weighted by quality), add your own tickers, and log allocations to a personal journal that tracks your P&L automatically.

Long · Squeeze breakoutexample
ScoreSymbolSqueezeVariants firedR:R
91NVDA ▲8%basetightrunner2.0R
84AVGO ▲14%basehivol2.0R
78PANW ▲19%baseloose2.0R
73XOM ▼11%basecusum_loose2.0R

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