Qullamaggie on Developing Expertise and Becoming a High-Performance Trader
“Guys, if you want to study about expertise and how you develop expertise, you need to read the books with this guy. He’s a Swedish professor at the University of Florida. He’s written several books about this. I think it was Malcolm Gladwell who popularized the 10,000 hour rule — this is the guy he got it from.
This guy has written several books about how he studied all these high performers — like sports people, chess players, and the top 0.01% in different types of fields — and just examined how they became really good at what they do. He wrote several books that are really good. I have one of his books that’s really thick — I still haven’t finished it because it’s like 800 pages. So this is the light version of it.
Peak — if you want to know how to be really good at anything, like becoming a good trader, a good golfer, a good chess player, or a good guitar player — it’s the same feedback loop for anything and everything.
This is the one I think: The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance. It’s super thick — 984 pages.”
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Qullamaggie High Tight Flag Setups
My favorite Qullamaggie setups aside from Episodic Pivots and Pocket Pivots, are High Tight Flags off the 10 and 20 day SMAs, after a stock starts showing momentum.
Great examples I’ve personally traded are $BE $NUGT in August 2025. Buying the first flag off the 10 allowed me to get positioned decently early in a big move, without predicting momentum, and follow price through a sustained uptrend, trailing my position with a close below the 10 day moving average.
Similar opportunities could present themselves in the next week or two.
We’ve already seen strong moves with displayed follow through. Starting with space stocks $RKLB $ASTS, $ONDS igniting the drone theme, followed by semiconductor names $SNDK $SKYT $AXTI $ACMR, $FIGR $BW etc.
$IWM is leading things higher, $SPY is breaking into new highs, $QQQ is about to break range as well.
There have been nice setups so far. But if you’re not already positoned in some things, still plenty of opportunity to potentially present itself, if this is to be a sustained run.
"The first and last eighths are the most expensive." - Jesse Livermore
A lot of stocks in multiple themes have just made 30-100% moves, and are awaiting consolidation into moving averages.
My favorite setups are typcially the first flag. The first consolidation after a big move up. Whether it be out of a base, prior consolidation, or downtrend.
If you’ve studied big winners and big moves, you’ll know this is how stocks move. In a stairstep like fashion. They go up, go sideways. Then make the next leg higher. Our job is to buy the stock right as it’s about to make its next leg higher.
When stocks have just started to show momentum, buying at tight areas around the 10 and 20 day moving averages, are great ways to position yourself in uptrends, and capture some big winners.
Requirements for my high tight flags are a 30-100% move, a pullback and digestion of the move with higher lows into a tightening range, and a break out of that range preferably while surfing on a rising moving average, either the 10 and/or 20 day.
Here is a list of themes and associated names currently showing strong momentum, 30-100%+ moves that meet Qullamaggie’s criteria for High Tight Flags, all with ADR >5%, over 10M dollar volume traded on Friday, and can be eyed for setups into the 10 and 20 day moving averages in the near future:
Aerospace / Space:
RKLB, KTOS, LUNR, PL, RDW, KRMN, SATS, SIDU, SATL, BKSY, VELO, DPRO, VWAV
Drones / Air Mobility:
ONDS, AVAV, RCAT, UMAC, UAVS, SRFM, AIRO
Semiconductors:
SOXL, SKYT, SNDK, AXTI, ACMR, SKYT, POET, TSEM, ALMU
Metals / Miners:
SLV, AGQ, HL, TGB, CENX, HYMC, ALM
Sensors / LiDAR:
OUST, AEVA, POET
Robotics:
SERV, SYM, PDYN, RR
Rare Earth:
CRML, USAR, UAMY, NB
Data Centers:
HUT, APLD
Nuclear:
OKLO, SMR
Uranium:
UUUU, UEC
Battery Tech:
EOSE, ABAT, MVST
Coal:
AMR, METC, AREC, BTU
Energy Infra:
TE
Clean Power:
BE
Solar:
ARRY
Lithium:
LAR, SGML
Software:
ZETA, INOD
Miscellaneous AI:
RZLV, WRBY
Photonics:
LPTH
Power Grid:
NRGV, FEIM
Healthcare:
GRAL, BFLY, MRNA
Other:
RIVN, OPTX, PI, SOC, CCCX, TROX, DDD, LION, TCGL, PTRN, BKKT
My main focus remains on space, drones/air mobility, and semiconductors. These are where the most setups have been, which tell me these are the themes and narratives I want to continue positioning into, if future setups allow.
Anything set up along the 50 day, ex. $FLNC is not included. 50 day flags are tradable, just different than the 10 and 20 flags in particular being discussed.
Not predicting any setups here, just seeing the first part of what I look for amongst the names in this list.
Flagpoles are forming. See what price does from here.
Qullamaggie shows His Scans In-Depth
“My scans? Sure. This is strongest scan. This scan scans specific watchlist I have for the strongest stocks - most of them are growth stocks.
Then like EP, these are stocks that gap up seven and a half percent or are up at least seven and a half percent. Above yesterday’s highs and at least 15 million in dollar volume.
Then I have my momentum watch list. It’s also a specific watch list I have. Pretty much scan stocks that are up today in that watch list.
ETF scan. 30 million in dollar volume and 6% ADR.
And then I have lower liquidity. Higher ADR, these are pretty much like stocks that are not very liquid but have a very high ADR. So you can take a smaller position and still make decent money because the stock is likely to make a bigger move.
Those are my intra-day scans.
Then I have my weekend and overnight scans. Also, which I use to build my watchlist. Pretty much, scan for the strongest stocks on every time frame. Like 1 month, 6 months, 3 months, 2 years, 1 and a half years, etcetera.
They all look the same, like 60 million in dollar volume. 3.5 ADR and ranks among the 7% strongest, and they all look the same. The only difference is the time frame.
Then I also scan for the biggest 5-day gainers: 60 million dollar volume and up 25% in the past 5 days.
So those are pretty much my main scans, and I also scan for the biggest losers. One and two year time frames, just to find the beaten-down names that could make big moves.”
1. Chart Patterns without context are randomness.
Strong uptrends don’t come from charts.
They come from real developments — industry shifts, fundamentals, and capital rotation.
Only when context aligns do setups matter.
Kristjan Kullamägi @Qullamaggie
CAGR 2013-2019 is 268%
One of the best performers during the market craze of the past years.
Here are resources I used to study his work, please add any other resources you have in the comments below!
Resources:
1: 12.31.21 and 01.03.22: https://t.co/bWOcfTY9C5 https://t.co/W71kap5cNx
2: https://t.co/6I5C7K7od2 https://t.co/Ch0vjiAkos
3: https://t.co/q7kIZFIg3o
4: https://t.co/EhZ2CM1NBj
5: https://t.co/VI7sbaPSff
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