Seven of the best books ever written on momentum and technical trading — O'Neil, Minervini, Farley, Knight, Duddella, Steidlmayer — were read end to end and distilled into something rare: rules precise enough for a machine to execute and to test. That library is the model's brain.
Every session it puts that knowledge to work across all 500 names in the NIFTY 500, hunting Stage-2 uptrends, volatility contractions, cup-with-handles and base breakouts. What it finds, it takes — a buy-stop at the pivot, a −12% disaster stop, and a hold that lasts until the stock closes below its 50-day average. Every rule traceable to a page in a book.
Built for the Indian market rather than translated into it: circuit-locked sessions are modelled as untradeable on both sides, and a liquidity floor keeps the book out of names that cannot absorb the position it claims to buy.
The same automated steps run after every close, with zero human discretion. Educational; not investment advice.
All 500 NIFTY 500 constituents, checked for a volatility contraction, a base breakout on volume, or a cup-with-handle — but only while the stock is already in a Stage-2 uptrend.
Minervini's eight-criterion Trend Template, scored against the NIFTY 500 itself rather than a large-cap index, so relative strength means what it says.
A name must trade at least 20× the position size in median daily value. The NIFTY 500 runs deep into the mid-caps; this is what keeps the model honest about fills.
Hold the full position until a daily close below the 50-day SMA. A −12% disaster stop underneath; once a name is +30% up, the stop ratchets to +15%. Let winners run.
A stock locked at its upper circuit has no sellers, so the model records no fill. Locked at the lower circuit, the protective sell cannot execute either — the exit is deferred, and the worse price is what gets booked.
One report before the open: the regime, tomorrow's setups with their brackets, every open position with its exit level, and the month's closed trades — wins and losses side by side.
The rules aren't invented. Seven trading books were read end to end and distilled into the wiki that drives the model — every rule traces to one of them. What survived is only what could be written down as something a machine can test.
The founding text of CAN SLIM and of Investor's Business Daily. It defines what a leader looks like before it breaks out, and its breakout test — volume at least 50% above normal — is the model's volume floor, used at O'Neil's published number rather than one fitted to our data.
The most load-bearing of the seven. His Trend Template is implemented literally as the model's eight-criterion quality gate, alongside risk-first sizing and the eight keys to high return with low drawdown.
A roundtable where four elite traders answer the same 130 questions side by side. Where they agree on selection, sizing and exits is where the model's defaults come from.
The pattern cycle — how price repeats through bottoms, breakouts, rallies, tops and declines — plus cross-verification of support and resistance across timeframes.
A chartist's walk through the major patterns one at a time: how to identify each, where the entry sits, and where the stop belongs.
A broad catalog of chart and harmonic patterns. This is the reference behind the screener that scans all 500 names nightly for VCPs, cup-with-handles and base breakouts.
The foundational text on Market Profile and auction theory: price as an auction whose job is to facilitate trade, and whether the market is trading at, above or below value.
Reading them is the easy part. The model's contribution is refusing to deviate from them at 3pm on a bad day.
⚠ Simulated / backtested. No real trades were placed. The book started this January — that is a sample, not a track record. Hypothetical results have inherent limitations and are not indicative of future results. Educational only — not investment advice.
The whole book on one page — the regime, tomorrow's setups with brackets, open positions with exit levels, and the month's closed trades. Below is an illustrative preview; the live report — real names and levels — is members-only.
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