Predictive checks: the coil before the move

Why Breakaway calls four of its checks predictive, and how to use them to find setups before they break out.

What they are

Most chart checks describe a move that already happened. The stock is above its averages, near its high, or up on heavy volume. Four checks describe a condition that builds before a move. The first is on-balance volume at a high while the price is not. The second is Bollinger Bands inside Keltner Channels. The third is the narrowest range in seven days. The fourth is more volume on up days than down days over fifty days. The card labels those four predictive and counts how many are lit.

Early signs, on the card
The predictive checks lit today, in one line with a bolt.
CEOs buying their own stock
Every CEO buy, biggest names first. Sort, filter, save the list, and set optional alerts.
Congress trades
A member's trades, newest first, each with its amount. Sort and filter the whole list.
The chart
Candles or lines, the averages you pick, extra panes, and a day to the full history.
The score, added up
Price action, the company, and signals, each with its points, summed into one number on every stock's page.
14 chart checks, read for you
The ones firing on the stock, each in plain words, its rule a tap away.
Earnings, week by week
Who reports each day, and how each stock took its last four reports.
FDA dates, counted down
Each date in the company's words, its cash against the date, and an optional alert before it.
The market map
Every stock a box, colored by its Quality Score.
Themes, ranked live
Each theme's stocks ranked by Quality Score, live. Here, AI chips.
The top 10, every day
The ten highest Quality Scores at each close, kept day by day, week by week.
Optional alerts, your way
Pick a stock, a score, a price, a filing, or a whole scan. It tells you by push or email.
Your watchlist, scored
Your stocks by Quality Score, today's move, or name.
On your phone and your laptop
The same account and watchlist on both, each laid out for its screen.

Why they matter

A stock with two or three predictive checks lit and a full trend stack is compressed inside an uptrend. Compressed means its daily range has gone tight. That is the coil many traders wait for, before the move rather than after it. Buying after the move means paying a worse price for the same information.

How to use them

Sort the scanner by Chart checks, the check count, and scan the cards for the lightning-bolt line. Stocks with predictive +2 or +3 and a trending-up regime, meaning the stock has a clear upward direction, are the ones this reading picks out. A watchlist and an alert for a score crossing or a break of the prior high keep them in view. The Fresh list shows which of them lit a new check today.

Predictive checks: the coil before the move

What they are

Why they matter

How to use them

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