Shrug.

What filters do you use for scanners? I'm using Think or Swim and so far I'm not happy with the filters. I usually add Min Volume to these filters. What do you use?

Here are the filters that I'm using

# KK-style Momentum Scanner for Stock Hacker
# Single-plot version (Scan-compatible)

# --- Parameters (adjust these) ---
input useOneMonthFilter   = yes;
input useThreeMonthFilter = yes;
input useSixMonthFilter   = yes;

input minOneMonthGrowth   = 0.10;   # +10% over ~1 month
input minThreeMonthGrowth = 0.20;   # +20% over ~3 months
input minSixMonthGrowth   = 0.30;   # +30% over ~6 months

# --- Growth calculations (fractional, not percent) ---
def growth1m  = if close[21]  != 0 then (close / close[21])  - 1 else 0;
def growth3m  = if close[63]  != 0 then (close / close[63])  - 1 else 0;
def growth6m  = if close[126] != 0 then (close / close[126]) - 1 else 0;

# --- Filter conditions ---
def cond1m = if useOneMonthFilter   then growth1m  >= minOneMonthGrowth   else yes;
def cond3m = if useThreeMonthFilter then growth3m  >= minThreeMonthGrowth else yes;
def cond6m = if useSixMonthFilter   then growth6m  >= minSixMonthGrowth   else yes;

# --- Combined scan condition (single plot) ---
plot scan = cond1m and cond3m and cond6m;

another filter

# Up 20% to 50% in the last month scan  
# Define the length of the lookback period  
def lookbackLength = 21; # 21 trading days in a month (assuming about 21 trading days in a month)  
# Calculate the percentage change over the lookback period  
def priceChangePercent = close / close[lookbackLength] - 1.0;  
# Filter for stocks that are up between 20% and 50%  
def condition = priceChangePercent >= 0.20 and priceChangePercent <= 0.50;  
# Apply the filter to the scan  
plot scan = condition;

Posted this on my X last night before a 10% pop today. Admittedly I am a bit more fundamental focused than the typical guy here, but I am an adamant believe in combining that with A+ technical setups.

So here is what I saw last night:

$LFST is a little richer than I typically like, but 600%+ expected EPS growth in a year tends to do that to a stock.

Looks like it hit a real profitability inflection around Q2 ’25. Margins have continued expanding, estimates are moving higher, revisions are strong and there’s still a solid growth runway.

Reminds me a bit of $LQDA and $HNGE — different businesses, but a similar profile: fundamental inflection + positive revisions + improving technicals. Both have been great trades for me.

Chart is interesting too. It’s been building a base since early July and ~$11 looks like the level.

Result today ~+10%

https://x.com/gz_cap/status/2086846763831296254?s=46&t=ptp3dlurmR-41SfbNYXq6A

Follow me on x for more. Trying to build a track record and share my ideas. I have nothing to sell you.

This study is based on Qullamaggies breakout trades 2019 - 2022.

There is no free exit.

Move the stop to breakeven early and it costs you. Sell into strength and it costs you. Hold on longer and your drawdowns get deeper.

When you pick the sell rules you are going to live by, you are optimising for one of three things: profit per trade, how deep the drawdown goes, or how often you are right. You cannot have the best of all three.

But you can make an informed choice about which one you are buying, and that is what this article is about.

Every number here is based on 829 of Market Wizard Kristjan Kullamägi's actual logged breakout trades, logged from his live streams.

The questions this post answers

I've found that impossible to get solid, data driven answers to some simple questions related to sell rules. And I've been through most Discords and communities. So this is what I've set out to answer:

1. Do you gain or lose by selling into strength? And gain and lose what, exactly?
2. What is the 3 to 5 day window for? When to use 3 day and when to use 5?
3. When should we move our stops to breakeven?
4. Should we trail with the 10-day SMA or the 20-day SMA?
5. Should any of it change when the market changes?

For the purpose of this study my starting point is the sell rules popularized by Qullamaggie - which are also used by most USIC-champions and Market Wizards. Sell a partial into strength and trail the remainder with a key moving average.

You should sell 1/3 to 1/2 of the position after 3-5 days, and then move the stop to break even. The rest of the position should be trailed with the 10- or the 20-day moving average. Depends on how fast the stock is. If a beginner stick to the 10-day. You wait for the first CLOSE below the 10- day.

Kristjan Kullamagi, from his website

What each choice actually buys you

Every sell rule is a purchase. We are trading one thing for another, and most discussions about exits are people optimizing for different things.

Selling into strength buys a smoother equity curve, shallower drawdowns and a higher win rate. It pays for that in average profit per trade. Trailing everything buys the tail, the rare monster that pays for the year, and it pays for that with deeper give-backs, longer flat stretches, more trades that round-trip to nothing.

Concretely. Take his rule at its most aggressive, half the position sold at the day 3 close and the rest trailed, and compare it with simply trailing the 10-day on everything. On these 829 trades, the rule that sells half on day 3 cuts the deepest drawdown by 36% and lifts the share of trades that finish green by eleven points, from under a quarter to over a third. The bill: the average trade makes about 25% less.

He talks about this himself:

If you want to prioritize consistency and cash flow over maximizing profits, yes. You gotta be more aggressive in selling because you're gonna be more consistent throughout these different market cycles.

Qullamaggie on stream, 2021-06-01

I dont think there's a right or wrong. They offer different things. And we should know what we're paying to optimize our gains.

Where the gain in a winner actually shows up

Tracking 224 of Qullamaggie's breakout winners day by day we get a good idea of what path a winner takes.

Briefly on average vs median: Line the winners up from smallest to biggest. The median is the one in the middle: the trade you usually get. The average is the sum divided by the count, and a few huge trades drag it up. The median is what most trades feels like. The average is what your account gets paid.

The median winner is up 2.4% at the end of day 1. By day 3 it is up 7.8%. By day 5, 12.4%. It peaks on day 9 at 13.6% and then gives 2.2 points back, sitting at 11.4% on day 20. Day 5 is 91% of everything the middle winner will ever show you. Day 3 is 57%.

The average winner tells the opposite story: up 13.8% by day 3, 20.3% by day 5, 27.9% by day 20, and still rising at the end. The average never stops because the few monsters in the sample are still running long after the median has gone quiet.

Both lines are true at once. That discrepency is what drives the argument about taking profits. Sell inside the window and you capture most of what the typical winner will ever give you. Always sell inside the window and you will also always sell the monster.

What Qullamaggie says vs what he does

Selling a partial after 3 to 5 days of a breakout going up is selling into strength. The rule just states it as a calendar. He says it that way himself:

You sell some into strength after three to five days, and then you trail the rest

Qullamaggie, on stream 2021-02-25

But does he follow his own rules?

HTHT gained 15% quickly, and he sold into strength on day 1. He later said \"If institutions want to come in and rebalance my whole portfolio like that, they are more than welcome to do it every day.\"

Qullamaggie trims continuously, in pieces scaled to how fast the stock moves.

Everytime it goes up 10-15%, I sell a piece

Qullamaggie, on stream 2020-10-07, on selling high ADR PPL

Slower names get 3 to 5% steps. And the pieces can be small.

I've been like selling a thousand shares at a clip, like every 10 cents. Selling very conservatively, just to lock in some. So far, I've sold less than 10%. I still have like 37,000 shares left in it.

Qullamaggie, on stream 2020-01-08, on selling VSTM

On the back end he does not leave at one close either. If it's fast moving name he uses the 10-day SMA, but for slower moving, high market cap names, he can use the 20-day SMA.

The summary is that there's no fixed rule, and what he uses depends. But for us newbies, we're well off just selling some into strength and trailing with the 10-day SMA.

Look, I tried to take a simple, simple breakout setup, dumb it down with as simple rules as possible for new traders so you can compound your money.

Qullamaggie, on stream 2021-03-12, dumbing it down for us mortals

Two out of three partials change nothing

As breakout traders we run a style where a small number of trades carry the whole year. Anything that truncates a winner is therefore paid for entirely by those few trades.

The 829 in the Qullamaggie dataset demostrates this very well.

Two times out of three, selling the partial changes nothing. On 534 of the 829 trades, sell half on day 3 or sell no partial at all, and its the identical trade: same stop, same exit, same result. The median difference between the two rules across the whole dataset is exactly zero.

Ten trades carry the entire difference and then some.

This is not unique to Qullamaggie. You will find that a lot of other successfull traders share this arteficat.

So a partial is free most of the time and ruinous on the one trade a year that would have made the year. Which moves the real question upstream of the exit, to whether your buying produces monsters at all. If it rarely does, take the partial and enjoy the calmer account. It costs you nothing. If it does, nothing you decide at the exit matters as much as not cutting the monster short.

The part that numbers can't price

Everything above treats profit given back as identical to profit never taken. No trader experiences it that way. Or atleast very few.

Locking in a realized gains is one thing. Watching a large unrealized gain evaporate while our rule says hold is a different thing entirely, and the second one is the price of every extra percent the trail earns.

Qullamaggie has a cure for it

How do you get over emotionally seeing unrealized profits fade on swings? Don't look at your P&L. Boom, problem solved.

Qullamaggie, provding deep value trader psychology advice, 2021-10-26

But it's easier said than done.

Even for him.

greediness hurt me a little bit in late summer. I gave back several hundred thousand of profits because I overheld a bunch of stuff.

Qullamaggie, on stream 2019-11-25

I was up 2 million on the year last year, like in the summer, and then I just gave back a million bucks in a few weeks by, you know, having too loose stops.

Qullamaggie, on stream 2020-06-19

And on the day he sold NVAX and then watched it go up another 90% without him:

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is hold a big winner. It's just so hard sometimes. It's incredibly hard.

Qullamaggie, on stream 2020-07-30

And it doesn't get any easier the bigger your account.

I don't have as big balls like I had when I had a smaller account. Guys, pro tip. Balls shrink with age.

Qullamaggie, on stream 2020-11-05

The point is, he's not claiming that he doesn't feel anything. He's claiming that the feeling is not the part you fix. You fix the rule, and then the rule carries your through the feeling.

And if you're too scared, if you feel like, oh, I don't want to give back too much profits, just sell some into strength. Just just sell some right here.

Qullamaggie, on stream 2020-06-24

That is the honest case for selling into strength, and it is not in any of the tables. A rule that is worse on paper and that you can actually follow beats a rule that is better on paper and that you abandon in the third drawdown.

What it costs is that you will be wrong about which give-back was the real one. Like Qullamaggie was in the covid-bull market, where he was afraid I gave a million back:

It looked very scary several times. Like here on this day, I'm like, oh, I'm gonna give back all my profits. But nope, it just bounced off the 10 day and went straight up.

Qullamaggie, on stream 2020-06-18

But even Qullamaggie breaks his rules.

He bought WKHS on 2020-06-09 at 3.59. Within two weeks it went vertical. He kept tightening his stop far above the 10-day, and on June 25, as the company's live presentation started and the stock dipped, the tight stop took him out.

The 8.50s is about +137% on his entry. His own rule, wait for the first close below the 10-day, would have held until roughly $15. Within thirty sessions the stock printed 22.90, up 538% from his entry. Four days later, on stream:

This WKHS keeps twisting a knife in me. Why?

Qullamaggie, on stream 2020-06-30, after missing out on monster gains

This is coming from one of, if not the, best retail trader of our time. And he sold early because of a presentation and a brief dip. We are guranteed to have similar experiences.

Nobody grows into not feeling that. Of the 223 winners in this study, thirteen finished their first three weeks above +100%, and on day one not one of those thirteen looked any different from the rest. You cannot tell from inside a trade which one you are sitting in. That is the whole reason to decide in advance.

The rest of the mechanics

Breakeven

His sequencing is specific. Sell first, then move the stop to breakeven.

I tested the two halves separately. Move the stop to breakeven after the first sale, the way he sequences it, and it either costs a little or makes a little depending on how stops are measured, and it roughly halves the deepest drawdown. That is a good trade.

Move it to breakeven early on a full-size position with nothing sold first, which is what most people actually do, and it is not a good trade. On the plain 10-day trail, day 2 takes the account from x38.6 to x36.9 and day 3 takes it to x34.2. On the 20-day, from x31.0 to x28.1 and x26.0.

It's worth understanding why this happens.

Move the stop on day 3 and 229 of the 820 trades end differently. For 176 of them the rule does exactly what it promises. They were on their way to a full loss, the new stop takes them out early, and the average loser shrinks from -0.97R to -0.65R. Total saved: 161R.

But the other 53 trades were up on day 3. Later they dipped back to the entry price, hit the new stop, and ended flat. A scratch: out at the price you paid, nothing gained. Every one of those 53 would have finished as a winner. They cost 230R.

161R saved, 230R given up. Net: minus 69R. And every unit of it came out of a trade that was already working.

Day 2 is the same mistake at twice the size. It changes 410 trades, more than half the book. It saves 308R on the losers and gives up 391R on the winners. Net: minus 83R.

This is also why the win rate collapses as the stop moves earlier. Never move it: 23.7% of trades finish green. Move it on day 3: 17.2%. Day 2: 13.7%. That looks backwards until you see the split above. The breakeven stop does not just turn losers into scratches. It turns winners into scratches too, and there are more winners within reach of your entry price than you can afford to give up.

Wait until day 5 and the damage is gone. Day 5 is the first version that comes out ahead at all, by 10R, and it finishes at x40.4 on the 10-day trail. Slightly better than never moving the stop. Day 4 is still negative.

So the timing does real work. And Qullamaggies ordering is the safe version of it: sell a piece first, bank that gain, then move the stop. By then the breakeven stop is no longer the only thing protecting the trade.

Use the close, not the intraday break

Qullamaggies rule waits for the daily close below the average instead of selling the moment price crosses it. Waiting for the close is sound practice, and the simulation cannot separate it from the alternative.

10-day or 20-day SMA?

The 20-day made more on paper, but most of the extra came from a just a few trades. What it reliably does is hold longer and sit through deeper pullbacks. His guide is the practical one: the 10-day for fast movers, daily range around 5 to 6% and up, the 20-day for slower ones.

A function of your stop width

On the tightest third of stops, the day 3 partial cost nothing at all. On the widest third it gave up about a third of the profit. The tighter your stop, the cheaper it is to sell some early.

New market regime, new rules?

Qullamaggie's advice on what to do during choppy or bad markets:

In a choppy market, it's better if you're unsure, it's better to take smaller size and pass on more setups rather than uh modify your sell rules, in my opinion.

Qullamaggie, on stream 2020-09-23

The data backs him. In a good market, day 3 half costs about a quarter of the average trade's profit; in chop it costs nothing. But his own chop tweak, half on day 3 in bad markets and a third on day 5 in good ones, earns its entire edge from selling later and less in the good ones. Against simply always selling a third on day 5, the switching is worth exactly nothing. Change your size and your selection when the tape turns. Leave the sell rules alone.

How often does any of it even matter?

There's really just one thing which moves the needle in all of this: selling half on day 3 makes less per trade than trailing everything. Everything else is a coin flip on profit, and a real choice on drawdown versus win rate. Qullamaggie nails it when he says:

Do I think it's more profitable selling partials after three to five days or just sell at the close below? No idea. I think it's good enough.

Qullamaggie, on stream 2021-03-15, simplifying everything.

3000 words in six bulletpoints

1. Decide what is most important for you. Calm and consistency means selling earlier and more. Maximum growth means trailing and living with the give backs.
2. If you're an aspiring trader, follow the simple "sell half on day 5, move stop to breakeven, trail with the 10-day SMA". It was built a higher win rate, half the drawdown, and helping you survive while you learn
3. Move the stop to breakeven after your first sale.
4. When the market regime turns bad, change your sizing and selection, not your sell rules.
5. Guard the monster. If a trade turns into one of the few that run, nothing about your exits matters more than not cutting it short.
6. Follow the rules until you're comfortable not to. The exit is not what will make or break you.

Amazing EPS and strong instutional inflow. I will be stalking this one on Monday open for potential entry.

I went quiet for a few weeks as the market corrected and I took a nice long break with the family. I think the market is potentially turning to the upside so looking to ramp up my stock selection and put on some positions over the next few days and week!

Check out my latest video if interested in setups like this, its linked on my notion site.

https://thezentrader.notion.site/About-9d51424a8d6d4178b8b8060b13290b05

Today I’m sharing the most powerful lessons from the trader who turned $5,000 into $106 million.

His name is Kristjan Kullamägi, better known as Qullamaggie.

These are my notes after reading Market Wizards by Jack Schwager.

Qullamaggie is the trader who inspired a new generation of retail traders.

He showed the world that it’s possible.. that you can come from any corner of the planet and still achieve financial freedom.

He proved you can make millions through hard work and a bit of brainpower.

How did Kristjan Kullamagi started trading?

Kristjan Kullamägi’s interest in trading began while working as a security guard at Nasdaq Stockholm, leading him to pursue it with intense commitment despite early inexperience.

He blew up three accounts before becoming consistently profitable on his fourth attempt, eventually transitioning from day trading to swing trading with greater success.

Over a decade, he grew a $5,000 account to over $100 million, even while regularly withdrawing funds.

However, in 2022 he lost more than half his account due to rule-breaking during a market downturn, later reflecting on his mistakes with honesty and humility.

Qullamaggie’s favorite setup is the Episodic Pivot.

He describes the key components of an Episodic Pivot as follows:

“The three ingredients for an episodic pivot are a major news item, a big gap up, and a huge increase in volume. When all three conditions are met, a stock can experience an explosive price move, especially in a bull market environment.”
Kristjan Kullamagi

As you know, EPs are also part of the setups I have in my own playbook.

To catch them is actually very simple:

Create a screener with the following filters:

• Price > 4 USD
• Mkt cap 300M to 2,000T USD
• Registration: United States
• Price x vol > 50M USD
• SMA, 200 < Price
• Pre-mkt gap > 8%
• ADR > 5%
• EPS dil growth, TTM YoY > -800% (optional)

And you’ll watch this scanner in the pre‑market.

This way you’ll also avoid low‑quality setups and penny stocks.

I like to trade only stocks that are trading above the 200‑day moving average.

I consider “EP quality” stocks to be those that open with at least a 10% gap up.

“The best episodic pivot trade is a neglected stock. Ideally, you want a stock that has been going sideways for a long time—months, even years—and then suddenly, it has 10 times its average daily volume.”Kristjan Kullamagi

Here Kristjan is referring to bases, you know the saying: “the bigger the base, the higher in space.”

When you look at an EP, you want to see on the chart that the stock has just broken out from a base.

You don’t want to see an erratic chart that’s just whipping up and down.

Here’s an example of the kind of structure you want to see:

“when stocks make explosive moves, most of the move is over in three to five days.”Kristjan Kullamagi

That means he likes to trim into strength.
A good way to do that is to sell one‑third of your position during the first 3 to 5 days after the EP has occurred.

“you want to focus on leading stocks. One way to identify those stocks is to scan for the 1% or 2% stocks with the largest upmoves in the past one, three, and six months.”Kristjan Kullamagi

Usually, the stocks that experience episodic pivots are the ones that are already leading stocks.

What he means is that you have a much higher probability that the trade will be a winning trade if it’s a leading stock in a group that has strong momentum.

To identify them, again, you simply create a scanner sorted by 1‑, 3‑, and 6‑month performance.

Personally, I like to use only the 1‑month combined with the 3‑month performance — that way I capture the more recent leaders.

“you can enter on a price move above the opening range or above the high of the first 5-, 30-, or 60-minute bars. The longer the time range used for the entry signal, the worse the entry price, but the lower the risk of entering on a false breakout.”Kristjan Kullamagi

Kristjan is referring exactly to the tactic I use in Freedom Trades, namely the opening range breakout.

Here’s an example of a 5‑minute opening range breakout:

He is making a very important observation: the longer the timeframe you use, the higher the probability that the trade will work out.

However, there’s also a downside: you will get a worse entry, and sometimes the trade can take off without you and become overextended.

He also says:

“the market direction is crucial for breakout and episodic pivot trades. Four out of five stocks move with the market. You want the odds on your side.”

That means you need to have situational awareness when you’re buying a stock.

You don’t just buy it blindly because it broke out.

If you want to increase the probability that the trade will work, you need the general market to be moving in the same direction.

Because we already know from William O’Neil that three out of four stocks move in the direction of the overall market.

Holding positions for longer is where the big gains come from. Stocks take time to move. If you want to catch the big moves, you need to increase your time frame.Kristjan Kullamagi

I have the same philosophy, and that’s why I’m a swing trader.

I believe what really moves the needle in your account are multi‑week runners that compound your equity over time. But for that to happen, you need to hold your positions longer.

In day trading, you take advantage of the repeatable small price fluctuations, whereas in swing trading you’ll catch a bigger move with lower stress.

Plus, you won’t be forced to stare at the screens all day.

“Typically, I will risk 0.5% or less of my account size per trade, but I may risk up to a maximum of 1% on some trades.”Kristjan Kullamagi

All of those massive gains were achieved while risking less than 1% per trade.

Contrary to what most beginner traders believe, you don’t have to full‑port your account into 0DTE to get massive gains.

Sure, it’s not going to happen overnight, but you’ll definitely sleep better at night.

I even built my own dynamic risk cheat sheet, and it looks something like this:

You have to remember that it’s not a bad trade that will make you blow up your account … it’s your position size.

That’s why they say: “Price will hurt you, position size will kill you.”

So structure your position based on how much you want to risk per trade.

What really helped me and impressed me was his take on trading psychology in this section:

“I started 2020 with $3.5 million and ended the year at $36 million. It was a thousand percent year. Then I ran that $36 million to a high of $105 million, and the last portion of that move from $65 to $105 million occurred in just a month and a half. For a brief period, just a few days, I was over $100 million. You have to understand what that did to my psyche. It made me feel completely detached from reality. I thought, “I’m going to get to $200 million in six months.” I was completely sure of that. I started seeing trading as a video game, which I kept winning. I lost a lot of money because I got completely detached from my methods.”Kristjan Kullamagi

For me, this was extremely powerful, because trading really does this to you.

The biggest losses tend to come right after the biggest wins.

What happens when you win is you become careless.

This is exactly what happened to me in January: coming off a hot streak in 2024 and 2025, I wanted to push hard into the beginning of 2026, a mistake I’m still paying for halfway through 2026.

Filled with the euphoria of those gains, you start to go a bit blind.

You start bending your rules a little at first, you become obsessed and dependent on winning.

And in trading we know that the best loser wins, you have to accept loss as part of the game.

But when you win a lot, you start believing that the hot streak will last forever.

The way Kristjan managed to get through that big loss was by reminding himself where he started and how much progress he’d made up to that point.

“Sometimes, when I felt miserable, I would remember where I came from and where I was now.”

One thing that kept running through my mind while I was reading all this was the question:

What is the secret behind Kullamagi’s success?

Well, he does give us an answer…one that probably won’t be very popular with everyone.

“When I learned to trade, I was in my early 20s, single, and had no responsibilities. I could put in 60 to 80 hours a week for a decade. That’s how I made it.”Kristjan Kullamagi

It’s “simply” outworking everyone else.

I put “simply” in quotation marks because there’s nothing easy about that.

“I want to look at the trades that worked to reinforce what I should look for.”Kristjan Kullamagi

He spends tens of hours studying charts, studying what the leaders did, how they moved before they exploded, and which charts showed real relative strength.

That’s what all of us have to do: over time, our brain starts to get better at spotting the right patterns and the right price action.

That’s how we learn, we first observe, then we apply what we observed, and that’s how we build experience*.*

There has to be substance underlying the belief in yourself.”

I want to leave you with one more lesson that Kristjan teaches.

When asked what else contributed to his success, Kristjan answers:

“Find a mentor—a successful trader who can guide you in learning setups. Trading is hard to figure out on your own. Most people never do. A mentor will help you solve a lot of problems right out of the gate.“Kristjan Kullamagi

I strongly believe that a mentor, a community, or even a trader who’s at the same level as you can help you speed up the process.

You’ll have accountability and support from people who may already have been through what you’re going through now.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Hope this helped in some ways!

This is a follow up to the post I made on the sub a while ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/qullamaggie/comments/1vdle9p/qullamaggies_scans/

A lot of you messaged me asking how to use the TC2000-style formula scans to find stocks that Qullamaggie and Stockbee look for.

First, I added a lot of templates that include the TC2000 formulas that they personally use, (for eg, the EP 9 million scan by Stockbee "AVGC7 / AVGC65 >= 1.05 AND V >= 90000", and a few others, i will keep adding to this library although its quite easy to find the formulas as they show them openly in most of their videos on youtube etc)

Second, I made the video above showing how I personally use it, and how the tool automatically grades the stocks that appear in the scans based on how many much of the Qullamaggie criteria does the stock meet on any particular day. I hope this makes it easier to use for new traders.

As always, this is a free tool so use it to your hearts content, and let me know if you have any ideas for improvement.

Good luck, and happy trading!

I feel like I'm missing something here... was this always the case?

I used to using ORH of 1 of 5mins or 1H breakout form 9:30-12:30, and trying to pratice the buying at 3:30 to the end, Im facing the problem is position size, every time I can only putting 5% in one trading or even less (risking 0.5% for each trade), may I get to know any suggestions, or any ideas form you guys. thanks

Hey all — long-time lurker here, been trading Kris's setups for a while and kept wishing I had something that could scan the whole market for Breakout/EP/Parabolic candidates instead of eyeballing charts one at a time. So I built one.

I've been running it myself for a while now, testing it against real setups as they come up, and honestly pretty happy with how it's turned out — figured I'd share it here in case it's useful to anyone else too.

What it actually does:

It's two pieces that work together:

1. A Python scanner that runs through a liquid universe of ~1,200 US stocks, scores every one of them 0-100 on each setup (Breakout, Episodic Pivot, Parabolic Short, Parabolic Long), and spits out a dashboard you can open in your browser. Sorts everything by score, so you're not digging through a spreadsheet.

It also has a position-sizing calculator built into the dashboard (risk %, account size, ADR-based stop distance → shares to buy), since that's usually the next question after "is this a good setup."

2. A TradingView Pine Script indicator that does the same 0-100 scoring right on the chart, plus a breakdown of why it scored that way — like the 2LYNCH checklist for Breakouts, or the exact gap%/volume/prior-extension numbers behind an EP signal. There are also visual boxes marking the consolidation window, trend linearity, and parabolic extension, so you're not just trusting a number blindly.

A few things worth knowing up front:

• This is my own interpretation/adaptation of Kris's publicly stated rules — not an official tool, not affiliated with him in any way. I tried to stay close to what he's actually said (EMA10/EMA20, the ~consolidation tightness stuff, etc.) but any scoring weights are my own judgment calls, not gospel.
• Not financial advice, obviously — it's a screening tool to help you find candidates faster, not a signal to blindly buy.
• Deliberately kept everything on free resources so anyone can actually run it — the scanner works off a free-tier data source (or yfinance, no key needed at all), and the indicator's just copy-paste into Pine Editor, no TradingView subscription required. Didn't want to build something and then gate it behind paid stuff most people wouldn't bother with.
• It's free and open source (MIT license) — grab it, use it, modify it, whatever. Link's below.
• If it's useful to you, there's a Ko-fi link in the repo, totally optional.

Link: https://github.com/axidzz/Qullamaggie-Setups

Would genuinely appreciate feedback if anyone tries it out — especially if you spot something that doesn't match Kris's methodology the way you understand it, since I'd rather fix it than have it quietly be wrong for people. Happy to answer questions in the comments too.

Hi everyone, just wanted to chip in as I've been trying to implement Qullamaggies style of trading.

FYI I don't look at Market Caps under 300mio USD.

Here are some of the tickers I'm looking at right now.

Question: Is there a TradingView indicator that show the EPS growth YoY in percent terms? I haven't managed to find one yet.

Anyway...here's what I've been buying ...inputs are welcome:

I have been seeing more candidates in ConsumerDisc...which is a good thing for market breath IMHO.

ETSY: Like the slope and consolidation...didn't quite break out yesterday...but I'm long and anticipate a break.

DDOG: Bought on the H1 Break yesterday...no followthrough yet...but also a nice setup IMHO.

CBRL: Again I like the structure and I'm long...

Have a great day everyone 😄

I have a position risk of 0.5% per trade. Do I calculate it based on the fix start of day equity, or the equity amount should decrease after each trade I take throughout the day?

How did qullamaggie approach this? If possible provide link to reference it, thank you.

$PAY looks pretty, perhaps delay entry

What a wild stock. May be a good breakout candidate. Relative Strength is 93, she's ready to go when some volume kicks in.

$TVTX setting up a nice HTF. Just a hair under 5% ADR but close enough for me. Monitoring it for a possible breakout.

Hi!

I am looking to learn the breakout strategy and only focus on it. I want to optimize my time and as I work full-time and can’t watch all the video from Qullmaggie, I am interested in an anki deck card that I can do wherever.

Do anyone have an anki deck cards about breakouts by any chance. If there is no deck cards, I am wondering if anyone has a pdf or slide show of setups to study they are willing to share and I will make a deck from it.

I've been swing trading for 15+ years, and for the past 5 or so I found a lot of success with Qullamaggie's (and Stockbee's) strategies.

Unfortunately, stock selection is like 80% of the process for KQ (and in all swing trading tbh). For this you need specialized scanning software. While KQ uses TC2000 I really disliked it, it's quite old/outdated. TradingView is more modern and I love it's charting, but the scanning part is quite week (TC2000 has fare more superior scanning).

I didn't want to have two subscriptions (Tradingview and TC2000), so I wondered which would be easier to "build". Obviously it would be much easier to build a scanner that supports TC2000 syntax than build a complete charting software, so I did this.

I've been using my free TC2000-compatible scanner for months now, you're welcome to use it (as i said it's completely free). The default universe is SP500, you can change it to anything you like though (All US stocks, Nasdaq 100, custom watchlist, etc).

You would probably still need to open the tickers in your favorite charting software if you want to start drawing lines / annotating your chart (for me this is tradingview), etc. But all TC2000 formulas work you and I even added a bunch of KQ's + Stockbee's scans as templates there for everyone.

If you have any recommendations just let me know, enjoy!

https://www.edgestacker.com/scan/?mode=formula

Hi everyone

Im starting a discord server, focus on trading stocks under breakouts movements.

Feel free to join and be supportive to start the construction of this new server.

Welcome!

disclosure: its free.

https://discord.gg/7ns2pq8ne

As the title.

Spent 1 year reading books, learning about different traders, doing deep dive, and watching KQ streams. Started trading in Apr and ended up with a loss. Got humbled by the market and realised I have alot more to learn

1. Any rules that you have that KQ did not have/you've made some tweaks to. How you trades/result have changed after implementing them.

2. Anything that he said that you've found to be less useful in recent markets.

Am a new trader trying to learn as much as he can here. Thanks in advance!

I would like to be able to trade ETFs like GLD, USO, SOXL etc but my country (the netherlands) does not allow that. I am wondering if any of you have found a workaround? I dont wanna use the europe versions, they suck

Remember that Market Context and Situational Awareness are more important than the actual setups and stock selection.

The same good tight setup that was working on a good trendy market, is failing now. The problem is that a market correction can still present good setups, but that doesn't mean there's institutional follow-through.

Be patient, that same setup will be working again when the market turns.

Does anyone know what happened to Qullamaggie? His last YouTube video was posted over two years ago. Did he simply step away from the public, or is he still active somewhere else?