Buy strength, ride the move
The Pivotal-Point Breakout
Livermore's idea as a repeatable process: enter only on confirmation at a pivotal level, with a worked example in R.
Open the playbook →The Darvas Box Breakout
Darvas's momentum method: buy box breakouts to new highs on volume, trailing the stop box by box.
Open the playbook →The Donchian Channel Breakout
Donchian's trend-following classic: buy a new N-period high and trail the opposite channel.
Open the playbook →The Stage-2 Breakout
Weinstein's method: buy the base break into Stage 2 above a rising 30-week MA on volume.
Open the playbook →The Cup-with-Handle Breakout
O'Neil's classic base: buy the breakout above the rim of a cup-with-handle on volume.
Open the playbook →Volatility Contraction Pattern
Minervini's VCP: buy a leader breaking out of a tightening base as supply dries up — with a tight stop.
Open the playbook →Fade the failure, trade the snap-back
The Wyckoff Spring
Buy the false-breakdown shakeout at the end of accumulation — tight stop, range-sized target.
Open the playbook →Turtle Soup — Failed Breakout
Raschke's reversal: fade a breakout that fails and snaps back into the range.
Open the playbook →Candlestick Reversal at Support
Nison's candles: trade a bullish engulfing or hammer where price meets support.
Open the playbook →The Value-Area Fade
Steidlmayer & Dalton's auction: fade a rejected probe outside value back toward the POC.
Open the playbook →Connors RSI-2 Mean Reversion
Buy a 2-period RSI below 5 inside an uptrend (price above the 200-day MA); exit on the bounce above the 5-day MA.
Open the playbook →The Gartley (Harmonic)
A Fibonacci-defined XABCD reversal: enter at D (0.786 of XA) with a tight stop beyond X — used as confluence.
Open the playbook →Bollinger Band Fade
Fade band extremes back to the mean — range-only, with a hard trend filter and the creator's "tags aren't signals" caveat.
Open the playbook →Time the entry with the trend
Dow Theory Confirmation
Index confirmation plus a structural break to act on a real trend change, not a guess.
Open the playbook →The Triple Screen
Elder's multi-timeframe method: trade daily oscillator pullbacks in the weekly trend's direction.
Open the playbook →The Holy-Grail Pullback
Raschke's trend-pullback: buy a dip to the 20-EMA when ADX confirms a strong trend.
Open the playbook →The Grimes Pullback
Grimes' trend-continuation: buy near the average after a strong move, entered on a lower-timeframe breakout; take +1R then scale.
Open the playbook →Trade the day's urgent order flow
The Opening Drive
Trade the first strong, one-directional thrust off the open, with risk defined by the opening range.
Open the playbook →The Intraday Bull Flag
Buy the breakout of a shallow, low-volume pause after a sharp impulse — a trend resting, not reversing.
Open the playbook →The Gap-and-Go
Trade a stock gapping on fresh news and high relative volume as it breaks the opening range.
Open the playbook →The VWAP Scalp
Quick, tight-risk scalps off price reactions at VWAP, the intraday benchmark institutions watch.
Open the playbook →Opening Range Breakout (ORB)
Trade the break (and retest) of the first range of the day, with volume and trend behind it; stop below the range.
Open the playbook →Read price without indicators
Each playbook maps to a trader and a concept on this site. More added with each new method.