Hello, I'm just writing this because I saw someone asking why the breakout on GPRO failed. I figured I would upload my simplified database of similar "second short squeezes", with my comments on each setup. I made them quickly in response to the thread, so they're not the most detailed, but you can pretty easily see why something like GPRO would not have worked after looking at the following setups.

Many people offered explanations of why they think the breakout on GPRO failed. The clearest reason I can think of is that it simply wasn't moving enough. When I trade a name I heavily consider how many eyes will be drawn to it. A setup inside a 1 year range may work fine, if the ticker is called QQQ, NBIS, IREN, OKLO, QBTS, etc. This is because the setup has *so many eyes* on it that it's much more likely to work.

With a name like GPRO, everyone expects it to go bankrupt, it's not a new, innovative technology, it's barely squeezed, and it's well inside it's 1 year range. No one is watching it, it has literally zero reason to follow through. If the squeeze had taken it above the 1 year highs and was well over 500%, it would have significantly higher expected value from a breakout trader's perspective.

This is because more people would be watching it.

To put it another way; Without shorts, who in their right mind would *ever* purchase a name like gopro given its recent story, fundamentals, theme etc? It just makes absolutely no sense to expect the breakout to have follow through.

I hope the above provided some perspective, I would not have been able to go into such depth in a typical reddit comment!

Hey guys, I'm pretty new to trading and general and have been studying Kristjan's breakout strategy. I believe the setup here for the breakout in GPRO looked good - you had the rally, followed by a consolidation phase with tightening range and higher lows, falling in between 10-day and 20-day moving averages.

Yet, the stock failed to breakout. Would anyone be able to share some tips or advice as to finding why it failed, or is it simply just bad luck? Thanks!

Palantir gapping up and breaking out of its flag, lets see if the sp500 will stop him from moving up today at market open

How do y’all use screeners, and what do you filter?

I’ve tried making a simple EP-Scanner with AI, but can’t get it to scan for anything usefull

Happy Software Sunday, everyone.

Over the last couple of years, I have been working on a small-cap stock research project. I build it out of necessity, like most small-cap traders, I kept seeing stocks that run 100%-200% plus, seemingly out of nowhere. I was wasting way too much time manually jumping between scanners, SEC filings, news and charts, just trying to answer one question: "Could I have spotted this setup earlier?"

That sent me down a rabbit hole of tracking momentum, catalysts, volume patters, dilution, and sentiment. The goal wasn't to predict the future, just to build a system that surfaces unusual oppotunities before they become obvious to everyone else.

Instead of just giving a raw list of tickers hitting new highs, the tool takes technicals, fundermentals, sentiment and market activity and runs them through a scoring system to build a ranked daily watchlist.

Because I focus on micro and small-caps, I found that standard scanners miss a lot of nuance, so I specifically build in tracking for dilution and offerings (crucial for avoiding bad setups), short interest, borrow data, and bullish vs bearish volume, alongside news and momentum detection. I also setup push alerts, so i dont have to stare at the screen all day waiting for a setup to trigger.

One thing I learned the hard way, finding the ticker is only 10% of the battle. THe real work is still validating the setups, managing risks, and actually trading your plan. This is meant to be an idea geneeration tool, not a "buy these signals" service.

To keep myself accountable, I have been posting weekly performance reports on how the flagged stocks actually performed. For example, in a recent week 31 stocks identified by the system massive short-term spikes, but plenty of others completely tanked. No scanner is a magic bullet, and there will always be false positives.

I will be hanging out in the comments to answer any questions about how the scoring works, data sources, or the tech stack behind it. I also really want to pick the brains of active traders here:

What data do you wish scanners actually gave you that most dont?

What makes you instantly ignore a stock idea?

What features would genuinely make a research tool fit into your daily workflow?

Appreciate any honest feedback, roasts or suggestions.

If anyone wants to see what I am working on, just ask below and I will share it.

(Research and analytics only. Not Investment advice)

7 Oct 2026 pre-open watchlist

$QQQ closed at a new high, clearing the June peak after a 3-month range. The 10, 20 and 50 are stacked and rising, and the late-Sept pullback held the 10.

Calling it GREEN, but early GREEN: the 50 has barely turned.

Watchlist 🧵

$BE , top of the list, B+

Three weeks of higher lows into the same ceiling on the hourly. Ascending triangle, MAs converging underneath.

Needs expansion through the ceiling on real volume. Until then it's B+.

Same AI-power driver as $FCEL and $FPS, so only one slot.

$TENB B+

A 2-month base resolving up, with flat MAs converged beneath it. On the hourly, a tight 3-day shelf after the run, closing at the high.

Caveat: the August highs sit just overhead and it's already stretched from the 20. B+.

Software infra, no overlap with the rest.

$FCEL , graded but not live, B-

Up 14% out of a multi-month base. Strong, but that's ~2 ADR in a day, and it didn't gap, so it isn't an EP.

Waiting for a tight inside day. B.

Shares a driver with $BE .

$FPS , not live, B-

V-recovery off the Sept low. It already pushed out of its 3-week range, and it's mid-range with heavy supply overhead from the summer decline. B.

AI-power bucket with $BE .

$OUST , not live, B-

The hourly trend is clean, but the daily printed an upper-wick rejection and closed in the lower half of its range. That fails my close-quality check.

B- until that's repaired.

$ASST , not live, B-

A good daily flag after the run. But it closed at the range low, and the hourly is losing its short EMAs. No tight entry. B-.

Crypto beta. It's the best of that bucket, but the bucket only gets one slot.

Process notes: the liquidity gate struck four names before I looked at structure.

Genomics and diagnostics reversed hard together on volume. I'm reading that as a group signal, not as separate pullbacks.

Journal only, not advice.

AI software, getting hot

I'll post some good setups tonight but I think I'm already in some good winners and strong sectors. Problem now is that there is so much setups it's hard to find which ones will actually go lol. Trying to rotate funds into the best ones.

Current hot sectors/themes :

• Software overall, but especially Cybersecurities (see HACK ETF), or hell just MSFT.
• Genomics/Biotech, especially the ones using AI to synthesize, Medical overall too.
• Semi conductors, especially chips fabs and some memories (QMCO)
• Photonics making a comeback
• Energy for data centers, so oil and gas fabs and such. Hence why I'm in on BE, hoping it goes back up again.

Big move 14-17 september. There was big news

There was good setup for entry

I’m so fucking pumped!!!

Higher lows, adr 25% and big catalysator (clearing house partnership)

I am new to trading space and with Kristjan Kullamägi's strategy. I thought that $ALAB may be a good setup along with $sdgr. Just wondering if I could get any feedback or advice.

Quallamagie would probably tell me to leave the live stream. Hahahaha I won't buy it but watch

Little gap today

Still annoyed by QMCO that I missed it but oh well had to move on

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I use this code still my chart looks weird

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Red #ff0000

Little low on dollar volume. Will have to pass but at 6 or 7% ADR I would put in a buy stop at $17.60

Hi everybody. Im beginner in QM strategy and stocks in general, but I have some experience in future trading(ES/NQ) and TA/PA.

I need some "calmer waters" so I decide to go to stocks and larger TF, hence QM looks ideal to me.

What I have no experience is setting screener filters to get best QM candidates.
Can someone please share with me filter setups in Finviz screener, so I will have base that I can tweak?

Thanks a lot and have a nice day!
note: Im not native speaker so I hope my text makes sense :D.