Top setups right now
Enter it to see how many shares risk 1% of it on each trade.
Your trades
Tell it what you bought and it watches every minute: Hold, Trim (take some profit) or Sell, and why. Kept in this browser only.
Which strategies actually make money?
Four standard day-trading strategies, tested on the last 60 trading days of five-minute bars. Each one's settings are chosen on the first two-thirds of the days, then judged on the last third — days the choosing never saw. Only a strategy that made money on both is used for picks. Trading costs are taken off every trade, and at most three trades a day are counted.
Everything it watches
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- This is not financial advice, and it is not a prediction. It is a set of common day-trading rules applied mechanically. Most day traders lose money.
- R is the amount you risk on a trade (entry minus stop). +0.5R means you made half of what you risked. Risking 1% of your account per trade, +0.5R is +0.5% of the account.
- Past results do not guarantee future ones. A strategy that worked for 60 days can stop working; the lab reruns every few hours and the page follows its verdict.
- No one can sell at the top. The sell advice uses a trailing stop that rises with the price and never falls, so a winner is ridden and most of it is kept when it turns.
- Set the stop in your broker. This page only checks once a minute; a real stop order acts instantly.
- In a margin account, more than three day trades in five business days needs $25,000 in the account (the pattern day trader rule).
- Prices are one-minute bars from Yahoo Finance and can be a minute or more behind.
- VWAP is the average price paid today, weighted by volume — above it, buyers are winning. Volume is today's so far against the usual amount by this time of day.