i would add i'm a fan of everything you mentioned. the support/resistance is something i hadn't mentioned in my earlier posts.

i like technical analysis stuff that can be easily quantified and tested.... a friend of mine was heavily into fibannaci sp? and barfoulian reversals. i just think when you get too deep into subjective TA it can become gobblygook. and often these people show one instance of it working.

i was also interested in gil morales and that whole IBD momentum crowd..... they looked into pivot pockets (name?). basically wait for consolidation of hot stocks to go back in. i think the theory is that if Netflix spikes, institutions will lay off buying it for awhile... also, lots of work by morales and his cohorts on bottoming processes

For trading discretionary momentum and reactionary. So for longs entry must be green on the day and price above previous days high. Shorts red on the day price crossing below previous days low.

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Ummm. Knowing how many standard deviations you are above or below the mean is important?

The mean of what variable?

10y-3mo inverted = start scaling out of long positions
Market cap of equities > 150% GDP = GTFO and short everything

Mean is only one way to do it. You can also do it with proportions.

my trigger is a z-score above 2.4

That wouldn't be a z-score.

Again, what mean (or proportion and statistical analysis using whatever proportion you are proposing) are you suggesting?

Morishita probably already knows, but this is basically a description of my triggers:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....act_id=2255327

For day trading: I typically scan for stocks that are up big in the pre-market (>20%), are in the $2-$20 range, high relative volume and preferably a float of under 20M shares, and preferably a news catalyst of some sort. If a stock meets those criteria, I'll then look to enter on a break of the pre-market high provided that there's no major resistance levels nearing or big sellers close by on the Level II data.

For swing trades: I don't take these nearly as often and they're mostly based off articles/news releases. Most of them are in flavor of the month sectors - in June they were nearly all EV related... BLNK, SHLL, PLUG, etc.

Edit: PLUG isn't specifically EV, but you get the point.