Breakout
Price clears defined resistance after multiple tests.
How it works
From close to publish, in five steps.
Every weeknight after the US market closes, an automated pipeline runs end-to-end and ships a ranked, summarized list of chart setups before pre-market opens. The process is summarized below.
The pipeline
What runs each night.
- 01Ingest
Pull EOD candles for the full US universe
Around 8,400 US-listed equities and ETFs. Adjusted OHLC, volume, and corporate-action history flow in from regulated data vendors. The pipeline waits for late prints and re-runs after each settlement.
Universe~8,400 tickers - 02Detect
Six pattern detectors, one pass each
Each setup type — Breakout, Breakdown, Bull Flag, Uptrend Pullback, Mean Reversion, Downtrend Rip — has its own detector. They run independently across the universe. We publish what detectors find.
Detectors6 independent passes - 03Rank
Score each detection on five points
A detected pattern is not the same as a clean one. Every hit is scored on a 5-point quality scale that considers structure and trend context. Scores rank, they do not predict.
Output1–5 quality stars - 04Summarize
Generate the AI market digest
A guard-railed LLM reads the ranked list, the macro context block, and a fixed set of structural prompts. It writes a short summary of the day's themes — never names a "pick," never makes a price call, never invents a ticker.
ModelClaude LLM - 05Publish
Ship before US pre-market opens
The list, charts, milestone badges, and digest are stamped with a generation timestamp and published to subscribers.
CutoffBefore 5:00 AM ET
The six setups
The complete list of six. Nothing else gets published.
These are the only setups we publish. We do not detect (or publish) anything else. The illustrations are schematic — they show the shape of the pattern, not historical data.
Breakdown
Mirror of breakout to the downside — defined support gives way.
Bull Flag
Sharp uptrend (pole), tight consolidation (flag), then resolution.
Uptrend Pullback
A shallow dip inside an established uptrend, resolving with trend.
Mean Reversion
Inside a range, price reaches a statistical extreme and turns back.
Downtrend Rip
A sharp upward rip against an established downtrend.
Quality scoring
A 5-point screening aid.
Every detection is scored from 1 to 5. Higher scores indicate a cleaner pattern relative to the detector's structural ideal — not a prediction of how it will resolve.
The score is the same number the app uses to filter the list. Five stars is rare; three is common; one means the detector saw the shape but the structural read was weak.
Read the methodology Five — Textbook
Clean structure, strong trend context, confirming volume.
Four — Strong
Tight setup with one mild structural concession.
Three — Workable
Recognizable pattern with notable structural weakness.
Two — Borderline
Pattern present but trend or volume context is poor.
One — Detected
Shape only; structural read failed most checks.
Macro context
Setups don't exist in a vacuum.
Each day's digest sits in front of a short macro context block — equity trend, breadth, volatility, and credit posture. The detectors don't see this; it's there for you, so a high-quality Breakout in a deteriorating tape reads differently from one in a clean uptrend.
Macro · specimen
redacted · 2026-05-12
Equity trend
Up
Breadth
Strong
Volatility
Low
Risk-on / off
Risk-on
The macro block describes the tape; it does not advise. It is not used as a detector input or as a scoring weight.
Want the full transparency document?
The methodology page covers what the quality score is, what it isn't, and why the digest never names a ticker. The disclosures page covers everything else.