My system trades in one direction at a time. Which direction depends entirely on SPY. When SPY’s price is above the 10 EMA and the 20 EMA, and the 10 EMA is above the 20 EMA, the regime is bullish. The system takes long signals. When any of those conditions breaks, the regime shifts to…
Every signal my scanner produces gets run through one check before it becomes actionable: the regime filter. A setup can look perfect on its own, but if this check fails, the signal gets dropped. No exceptions. The regime filter looks at one thing: SPY. If SPY’s price is above both the 10 EMA and 20…
I looked at a lot of trading styles before I started. Day trading, crypto momentum, options premium selling, value investing. Each one had a pitch. Most of them required sitting at a screen all day or betting on volatility I could not measure. Qullamaggie’s approach stood out because it was boring on purpose. Weekly charts….
🟢 BULL regime — Week of 2026-05-10 No actionable signals this week. SPY: $733.83 | EMA10: $697.44 | EMA20: $686.52 Entry: Monday open. Size: 20% account (longs) / 15% (shorts). Trade Like a Pirate ☠️ — 📢 Free weekly scan + trade updates: t.me/PiratosTrades 🔒 Full trade details: piratostrades.com/vip 📈 TradingView | 🏦 IBKR
Every trade I take has a stop before the order goes in. Not after. Not adjusted during. Before. The stop is structural, not arbitrary. I do not pick a percentage and subtract it from the entry price. I look at where the trade thesis breaks down — the price level where the setup no longer…
A base is not a dip. A dip is one candle pulling back and recovering. A base is a structure — weeks of price consolidating in a tight range after a prior advance, with volume drying up on the pullback and expanding on the breakout. The best bases share a few traits. Price forms a…
I thought discipline meant holding through every drawdown. It does not. It means cutting the trade when the thesis breaks, even when the loss stings. I confused conviction with stubbornness in the early weeks. I thought I needed to trade every week. A blank scanner output felt like failure. Sitting on my hands while the…
🟢 BULL regime — Week of 2026-05-02 Scanner found 39 actionable signals from 5,262 tickers. 28 long (WB-IPO). 6 long (WB-PULL, no margin). 5 short (WB-SHORT, margin required). 📋 Long Signals (WB-IPO) | Ticker | Score | Tier | Entry | Stop | Shares | Cost (€) | |——–|——-|——|——-|——|——–|———-| | DRUG | 73 | TIER…
Daily charts lie. Not because the data is wrong, but because the noise drowns out the signal. Every intraday shakeout, every algorithmic spike, every panic dip that reverses by lunch — all of it shows up on the daily. You start seeing setups that do not exist. Weekly charts compress that noise into a single…
I work in IT full time. I also run a systematic swing trading framework with five active systems, a weekly scanner, and a public content brand. People ask how I manage both. The answer is structure, not hustle. Swing trading on weekly bars makes this possible. I am not watching tick charts at lunch. I…