Practical write-ups on testing a trading idea properly, getting alerted when it happens, and the tools around it. No hype, no signals-for-sale.
A real backtest of buying the gap fill: stocks that gapped up, bought when price dipped back into the gap, across all 503 S&P 500 stocks. 1,964 trades, a 36% win rate against the 37.5% it needed, and why the month mattered more than the setting.
Read guideSet up a breakout alert that reaches Telegram automatically: which breakout rule to use, the confirmation that cuts the false ones, and how to test it before you turn it on.
Read guideScreeners give you a snapshot and chart alerts watch one symbol. Here is how to run a single rule against all 500 stocks continuously, and test it across the whole index first.
Read guideUnusual volume means volume relative to a stock's own average, not a big number. How to set the threshold, why volume alone is a confirmation and not a signal, and how to alert on it.
Read guideCrypto never closes, which is exactly why watching it manually fails. How to set rule-based BTC and ETH alerts that reach Telegram, and what changes when there is no market session.
Read guideBreak-even win rate = stop / (target + stop). The formula, a lookup table, and four real backtests across 503 stocks showing why a win rate means nothing until you know the number it had to beat.
Read guideA real backtest of the MACD crossover on all 503 S&P 500 stocks: 1,761 trades, 569 wins, a 32.3% win rate against the 33.3% it needed. Why missing by one point cost everything.
Read guideA real backtest of the hammer reversal on all 503 S&P 500 stocks: 106 signals, a 38.7% win rate, and a -32.7% result. Why a famous pattern still lost money.
Read guideA real backtest of a support bounce: price at a 100-bar low plus RSI(14) under 30, across all 503 S&P 500 stocks. 48 trades, a 54.2% win rate, and why the exits mattered more than the setup.
Read guideA step-by-step guide to backtesting a stock strategy with no Python and no spreadsheets — what a backtest actually proves, the mistakes that fake good results, and how to run one free.
Read guideHow to backtest a breakout strategy properly, using a real S&P 500 test that returned -50%. Lookback choice, confirmation filters, and the break-even win rate maths.
Read guideHow to make a TradingView alert fire only when several conditions are true at once — using alert conditions, and Pine Script for real multi-condition logic.
Read guideSend custom stock alerts straight to Telegram for free. Set up rule-based signals on the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 with no bot coding and no webhook wrangling.
Read guideA practical comparison of free stock screeners — Finviz, TradingView, Yahoo Finance, Zacks and more — plus the one thing every screener makes you do manually.
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