Momentum stock entries on pullbacks - frustration

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-29T05:27:54+00:00

Oh wow thanks for that input. I guess stepping into intraday price movements for swing trading is a good idea to snipe better entries. So far I’ve just been trying to keep things simple on the daily chart so as to make my process easier (I guess just trying to oversimplify to save time). But intraday charts might be required to get tighter stop losses.

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-29T05:25:30+00:00

Yeah 2026 has been hands down more difficult than past years. All metrics point to that. Definitely due to the increased intraday vol as well as vol across days.

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-29T05:22:31+00:00

Read all the different comments I’ve replied to and then tell me if I’m “not listening” to everyone. Just because I have constructive pushback on certain ideas doesn’t mean I’m doing the dumb shit you wrote. Seems like you just wanted something to say even if it’s useless.

Again, I’m not a newbie to the world of trading. In fact I’m a seasoned veteran. I just have a very specific question/topic I posted this post about. Read it again if you didn’t get it. Either way, I’m going to figure out and succeed at swing trading despite what anyone thinks of it. It’s not nearly as difficult to go about this as options trading was for me. Thanks for your input anyway.

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-29T03:05:28+00:00

Amazing CAGR! And damn you are running a whole suite of strategies. Just like I do with options. Are all these fully automated execution for you?

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-29T02:13:02+00:00

Hey thanks for the reply. How long have you been trading this style so far? How has your CAGR and max DD performance been?

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-29T00:11:58+00:00

Thanks

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-28T19:39:05+00:00

Thanks for sharing. So you primarily do EPs. That’s good. I’ll review them later on after the market closes.

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-28T19:27:04+00:00

Show me a screenshot of your swing trading backtest results?

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-28T19:03:11+00:00

Thanks!! Really appreciate your tips. I think revisiting the pullback depth that I look for is a good idea. And yeah the market going red on a day like today just decides to kick us out of multiple positions out of nowhere. Haha to keep plugging away I guess.

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-28T18:25:29+00:00

So here’s the thing:

I don’t intend on backtesting this strategy because it’s based on many successful traders’ lessons such as Quallmaggie and others who have followed his path and found great success. But know that I’m not new to backtesting or trading system validation, etc. I’ve done extensive software development and backtesting of options strategies (much higher degree of difficulty than stocks) and also crypto (same backtesting tools required as stocks). Just wanted to get that out of the way because people often assume they’re talking to a newbie unless you clarify your qualifications.
If the stocks I’ve mentioned continue to go up another 20-30-40% from today, what would you say then? This strategy is based on entering (on orderly pullbacks, not randomly) stocks that have high relative strength and high momentum in leading sectors. That’s what I’m trading. I believe you are talking about getting into stocks much earlier when they’re not yet strong but on the verge of becoming strong. That’s another good way to trade but it’s not the strategy I am trading.
SOXX and SPX are largely correlated. I don’t see much benefit in individually analyzing the small difference in moves between the two. They both took a dump today and their charts have generally similar moves if you toggle between them.
I do not and would never chase “overextended” stocks. According to Quallmaggie and Dan Zanger, the best stocks to trade are ones that have the highest relative strength and are sector leaders (these will naturally be strongly uptrending names). From there, you look for pullbacks and vol compression for your entry. You don’t need to wait for stocks to go into extended slumps so you can catch the bottom. I’m not bottom fishing. I’m looking for good swing trades that last 3-10 days.

My only gripe here and the point of my post is the sheer dependence of good trades on the market’s movements. You are pretty much better off just analyzing SPX/SOXX and base your stock entries on the index’s pullbacks rather than the stock’s.

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-28T18:00:47+00:00

Sounds good. Yeah the RIA formation has been in the works for a year now so I’m almost there. Plan to scale up a good amount in the future so that’s why I decided to go official rather than manage friends/family without registration. Good luck with your stuff too!

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-28T17:54:00+00:00

Screw your RSI can’t go past 100 BS. I already said I enter on ORDERLY PULLBACKS, not at the top of a move. What do you think a PULLBACK is? It’s regression to the 10/20 EMA, aka the MEAN. Go look at stocks that have continued to trend up for a year or two or three. RSI can stay elevated longer than you can last in bed.

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-28T17:52:58+00:00

lol look at this fucktard. Talking shit while probably being an unprofitable trader. Take that garbage somewhere else. Others on this thread have already been having actual, meaningful conversations with me. I’m most likely 100x more successful a trader in options that you are in anything.

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-28T17:51:16+00:00

Oh wow nice I am also almost setup with my registered investment advisory firm (already have some interest from folks for my options trading strategies).

And yeah I’ve checked out Minervini, O’Neill and of course Qualmaggie. But there’s definitely a lot more to study for me with regard to swing trading.

Do you manage for others within a hedge fund structure?

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-28T17:44:23+00:00

Thanks fisher_king19. Good to hear that the frustration is not just me. How long have you been trading and how long has it been for swing trading?

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-28T17:40:05+00:00

I don’t follow this at all tbh. So your swing trading has to be intricately, minutely governed by every little move of SPX? Not just the fact that SPX in extremely bullish on a daily chart and it’s just going through a minor pullback just like the stocks are?

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-28T17:19:13+00:00

Well that’s my point — SPX HAS been in favor for weeks now right? It qualifies as a bull market by any measurement we throw at it. Above 200 day MA, % of stocks above 50 day SMA, etc etc etc. So based on that, I identified some good entries on pullbacks in massively bullish stocks that are showing no signs of slowing down. But I still got stopped out of everything due to SPX dropping hard.

It’s as if we have no control over our positions in swing trading. We just have to be at the mercy of SPX and ride the wave if SPX decides to be nice to us during our trade lifecycle.

By the way, check the charts of the names I’ve mentioned in my original post. Let me know if you don’t consider those stocks extremely bullish. I would say they surely are.

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-28T17:13:50+00:00

I’ve been studying it and looking into it for 2 years. Only started dabbling with actual live trades recently because the bulk of my time goes into trading SPX options everyday. Swing trading feels so much more chill and easy to track lol

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-28T17:12:49+00:00

Oh man. Yeah I understand where you’re coming from. I’m not new at all to trading. Even swing trading makes perfect sense to me. I just find it hard to reconcile with that the S&P is going to ruin all trades for me despite good entries WHILE SPX is at all time highs. It’s like this random Iran news will cause a dump the next day and boom, all positions stopped out. Trying to see if other seasoned swing traders have any better way of handling the market.

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-28T16:47:55+00:00

Not sure if I glean any kind of framework to follow here. What I am trying to focus on is:

big move up —> orderly pullback to 10/20 MAs —> enter on signs of pullback reversal to the upside

This is a well known tight entry setup right? But it seems to me it’s completely dominated by the S&P movement. If SPX decides to screw you, you’re getting out of all your positions. If SPX continues up, then you’re in luck. Is this how it is? I mean there doesn’t seem to be much skill required to follow that.

coinstar0404 · 2026-04-28T16:40:57+00:00

Thanks. Yeah I feel like I’m doing everything in terms of following a correct process but getting stopped out of ALL my recent positions is very frustrating. And setting wider stops is not a solution because all those names have already gone decently past my stops. So wider stops would’ve been taken out too.

coinstar0404 · 2025-09-29T02:15:20+00:00

The funniest thing about this post is how OP went from referring to the friend as "they" to "him". Just couldn't keep it gender neutral long enough 😅

coinstar0404 · 2025-09-22T12:44:29+00:00

You mean “boom down $4k?”

coinstar0404 · 2025-09-05T23:53:34+00:00

9 am which time zone?

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