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The library — issue 001

Reads, and how we read them

Concepts the dashboard quietly assumes you know — explained. Plus a small bookshelf of the books our methodology rests on.

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UpdatedMay 6, 2026
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Market Regime

Three out of four stocks follow the broad market, so reading the regime is the single biggest risk-management lever a swing trader has. Four lenses decide it every day, not one.

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Zone · 01 / 02

The concepts shelf.

Methodology essays, organized by the four lenses. The page version of the dashboard's logic.

Concept

Market Regime

Three out of four stocks follow the broad market, so reading the regime is the single biggest risk-management lever a swing trader has. Four lenses decide it every day, not one.

Updated May 6 · 19 min read
Concept

Sector Rotation

An index can drift sideways for weeks while leadership rotates underneath. Reading the rotation tells you where the setups will actually pay before the index tells you anything at all.

Updated May 6 · 19 min read
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Relative Strength

Leadership shows up in the relative-strength data weeks before it shows up in the news. The traders who watch the percentile honestly find tomorrow's winners while the rest of the market is still arguing about yesterday's.

Updated May 6 · 29 min read
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Stock Leaders

Leadership is where the working setups live. Multi-horizon ranking separates real leaders from one-week news pops and tells you whether to stalk a breakout or wait for the dust to settle.

Updated May 6 · 7 min read
Concept

Follow-Through Day

Bottoms feel obvious in hindsight and impossible in real time. The Follow-Through Day is the one rule William O'Neil left swing traders for telling the difference, on the day the difference is being made.

Updated May 6 · 11 min read
Concept

Methodology

The methodology is the product. Every signal documented, every weight visible, every normalization rule explained, so you can audit (or disagree with) the regime read instead of taking it on faith.

Updated May 6 · 8 min read
Zone · 02 / 02

The bookshelf.

Books and papers we keep returning to — the foundations our methodology rests on.

Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear MarketsStan Weinstein · 1988
How to Make Money in StocksWilliam J. O'Neil · 2009
Trade Like a Stock Market WizardMark Minervini · 2013
Unknown Market WizardsJack Schwager · 2020