Mark Minervini knows that breakout setups look identical right at the pivot.
True market leaders show immediate follow-through and volume expansion, while failing stocks exhibit distribution warning signs during the attempt.
Follow-through separates leaders from laggards.
All my swing trading posts so far ⚡️
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Read the pinned profile post first.
It sets up how I see trading before you go through the rest.
Bookmark this thread. It'll save you time later.
Why do I trade momentum bursts with 2% instead of a comfortable 4%?
Because tightening stop from 4% to 2% doubles Multiple.
The relationship isn't linear. It's parabolic.
On a 25% return:
at 4% stop : 6.25R
at 2% stop : 12.5R
at 1.5% stop. : 16.7R
Basically, 1/2X stop, 2X R.
Now the part most people miss.
At a fixed 1% portfolio risk per trade:
at 4% stop → 25% position
at 2% stop → 50% position
at 1.5% stop → 66% position
Same capital at risk. Double the size to the move.
Tight stop gets two things at once:
1-Bigger R per winner and
2-Bigger allocation at identical risk.
That's the same risk deployed more better.
Momentum burst is short pause , expectation 8-40% in 3-9 days with tight SL
"But tight stops decrease your win rate."
Correct. 6.25R you need to be right 13.8% of the time.
You will get shaken out more with 2% stop .
But fact is, you need to be right far less often for the system to work. 35-40% win rate can be magical
Three more honest caveats:
1-Needs precise entries. Most traders don't have that timing.
2-30% in one name is mathematically fine and many are scared to do so.
3- 6 or 7 losers out of 10 is normal here. Most people quit at loser number 4.
This isn't for everyone.
But it's the most logical, controlled framework I have found for making meaningful money in short windows.
A conversation with my wife, shortly after our wedding!
Me: Let’s fill out this form.
Wife: What is it?
Me: Term insurance.
Wife: Why do we need it?
Me: Because if I die early due to an accident or illness, this insurance will ensure you have enough money to take care of your needs.
She agreed.
The next day,
Me: Let’s fill out another form.
Wife: Another form? What is this?
Me: SIP.
Wife: What is SIP?
Me: We invest a fixed amount regularly through mutual funds. The money gets invested automatically from our bank account. Over time, it can help us build substantial wealth.
Wife: But why do we need SIP?
I looked at her and asked:
👉Then why did we buy term insurance yesterday?”
She immediately replied:
Because something could happen to you- if you could die early , I get money to survive.
I smiled.
Exactly. Term insurance is for the possibility that I may die early.
👉And SIP is for the possibility that I may NOT.
There was a pause.
Because none of us knows which one will happen.
We don’t know when life will end.
And we don’t know when markets will rise or fall.
That is why we need protection for the uncertainty of life and discipline for the uncertainty of markets.
Term insurance protects the life we may lose.
SIP prepares us for the long life we may have.
So, friends,
Don’t try to predict what you cannot predict.
Protect. Invest. Stay disciplined.
Be a peaceful investor.
Happy #investing
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India's Post Graduation Speech, will in as the Greatest of All time. This is what the world and the Gen Z need to hear. Not just in India but global. Thank you @narendramodi Modi 🇮🇳 as the wisdom you've just delivered to India's Grads, will also shape the West and the World.🙏 Legend
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“Foreign Algorithms Are Quietly Conditioning the Minds of India's Youth” - Mallika Bajaj
Mallika Bajaj is a digital transformation expert who studies how technology affects the way people learn, behave and think.
Digital transformation architect Mallika Bajaj argues that foreign social media algorithms are engaging in “cognitive warfare” by conditioning Indian youth through an Algorithmic Cognitive Reinforcement Loop (ACRL). Bajaj suggests these platforms prioritize “Four Vs” (Viciousness, Virality, Vulgarity, Violence) over truth, prompting a need for Indian cognitive neural sovereignty and indigenous technology development.
Credit : ANI Podcast With Smita Prakash Clips.
Watching a cliff swallow build its nest is quite remarkable. It carries one tiny pellet of mud at a time, patiently shaping a home strong enough to protect the next generation.
It made me think about how meaningful work is often built. Rarely through one dramatic moment. Usually through small, consistent efforts that may seem insignificant on their own, but create something lasting over time.
Namaste, Ma'am...Aapko 1 story sunata hoon....
In the summer of 1980, a distraught 7th grade boy stood in the courtyard of a modest house in Mylapore, watching his father toss his cricket bat down a deep well. A fast bouncer had shattered the boy's spectacles during a local match & his father, a renowned Sanskrit logician, was terrified for his son's sight.
"Your cricket days are done," his father declared, handing him a violin. "If you want to master precision, master this."
The boy did not throw a tantrum. He directed his focus toward the strings, training until he was performing alongside musical legends, even taking direct corrections from Bharat Ratna M.S. Subbulakshmi.
5 yrs later, he suffered another blow: he failed to clear the IIT-JEE examination.
He did not give up. He enrolled in a regional engineering college, quietly mastering computer science logic gates. He eventually worked his way into IIT Madras as a postgrad researcher, earned a PhD, joined as a prof & eventually became the Director of the very institute that had once turned him away.
By 2011, while the world was building consumer mobile apps, this prof was looking at a hidden national vulnerability: every radar, fighter jet, banking server & defense system in India was running on foreign-designed microprocessors.
He had a single question in his mind: "We can test that a foreign chip does what we WANT it to do. But can we guarantee it does not do something we DO NOT want it to do when a war starts?"
He proposed building a completely indigenous, industrial-grade microprocessor from scratch. Global tech giants insisted it could not be done w/o billions of dollars in infrastructure & massive foreign patents.
He did not care. Working out of cramped labs on long shifts, he & his team adopted the open source RISC-V instruction set. They hand-coded logic gates, mapped silicon layouts & verified billions of instruction cycles.
In July 2018, a tiny 16mm² piece of silicon codenamed Risecreek arrived back at the lab. The team wired it up, flipped the switch & watched a flickering monitor as the Linux operating system booted on 100% Indian-designed silicon for the 1st time in history.
Today, his SHAKTI processor architecture powers everything from defense communications to space grade controllers built in collaboration with ISRO.
That young boy whose father threw his cricket bat down a well...
The student who missed the JEE list in 1985...
The violinist who turned down the official IIT Director's mansion to stay in his family home & protect his late father's Sanskrit library...
His name is Prof. Veezhinathan Kamakoti.
The popular quote "Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy and they cast spells, that's why it's called spelling" Bruce Lee :
Pradeep Bonde (@PradeepBonde), founder of Stockbee, is a mentor to market wizards.
He obsesses over magnitude moves, not duration.
His focus: short, aggressive bursts for maximum impact.
Here's his full playbook in 10 clips 🧵👇
"Do something that isn't taught in college. If it's on the CBSE syllabus, you're not going to get rich from it."
"CBSE's entire purpose is to give millions of people an average lifestyle. It was never built to make 10 people earn 1000 crore."
"Education is simply the ability to think independently. Now tell me, which of our schools actually reward that?"
"Forget deciding whether to start a startup or not. Just become entrepreneurial in whatever you do, teacher, doctor, podcaster, influencer. Run your own P&L. Learn sales. Add value to whoever your customer is, your boss if you're employed, your followers if you're an influencer."
"You can't ask for work-life balance while you're still an intern. That's a difficult life waiting to happen."
"You don't find your passion by sitting at home waiting for god to tell you. You find it by elimination. Go out, try things, and you'll know what isn't working."
@drriteshmalik on Startup vs Job
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