The holy grail of trading isn't an indicator or method but simply finding ways to tilt odds in your favor. Stan Weinstein's Forest To The Trees Approach is a repeatable method of finding good times to buy stocks with better odds of success.

How could a stock that is moving higher have all of its "price targets" lower than current price? $MRNA

$MRNA not one "price target" above current price

One of the best situations you can have in the stock market is disbelief while price makes new highs.

$MRNA is the top stock in the stock market now in 2026 and many fundamentalists don't like it. Stocks that defy the fundamentalists often make the best trades.

Weak start to the week but constructive action yesterday through today. Lots to discuss in this weekend's newsletter!

$MRNA I like how the selling dried up more yesterday and it holds the 10dema, now finding support there

$TLT heaviest daily upside volume of 2026 yesterday. Big weekly reversal potential with a strong close today.

Nasdaq 100 super tight and right at new highs with no resistance

Remember you only get one chance to protect your account each time the market gets more difficult. Fail to do that and you go back to boom and bust. This is why defense is always the top thing to focus on.

This was an important index review I did for members about a month and a half ago. We're going to talk about the long term picture again in this weekend's newsletter. vimeo.com/reviews/ff208e25-0…

Existing home sales look like they're about to breakdown below a major support area

$DNA nice follow through on volume after last week's breakout

In a hostile market you'll outperform 90-95% of other traders by simply doing nothing.

No offense to this person, but the revealing statement here is "not sure how you always do well". Nobody "always does well" in the stock market. If your fundamental belief is the stock market is here to grant you wealth then you'll always be in the market. But the problem is the stock market is both a multiplier of wealth, and a destroyer of wealth. Once you truly realize you can't be in the market all the time you are set free to just ignore the market when its not working, and the situations where the market isn't your friend and it bleeds into your personal life start to go away.

$JNK junk bonds tend to dump when the market gets stressed and $JNK could have its heaviest weekly downside volume by the end of the week

Over half of USIC traders that were profitable at the end of May either didn't report in July or became unprofitable. That's because they overtraded during a weak period in the market. Overtrading is the #1 cause of boom and busting, even more so than cutting losses, because if you don't trade, you don't have to cut a loss.

And when it gets really bad and they dry up for extended periods you get major corrections in individual sectors and the overall stock market. Those things flush out traders and set the stage for the next wave of Stage 2 breakouts to show up. Your goal as a trader is to avoid those flushes by remaining defensive.

Whenever the market starts to fail to produce new Stage 2 breakouts, it means 2 months from now there's going to be less leaders, which means you're not going to be in a great market. So that's a key sign to get very cautious when the Stage 2 breakout activity grinds to a halt. You need big new leaders to want to get involved in the stock market and they need to show you their power on the breakout. If you don't see those leaders, you simply just wait for them to show up again, sometimes it takes weeks to months for that to happen.

$MRNA follow through was the best trade for September and it was nailed in my newsletter. But now cracks are showing up in this major leader during a weak period.

The banks are funny because they go from making tons of cash when mortgages are being originated still at high rates, to the cash spigot cutoff when the market completely freezes up and then the foreclosures and short sales start up and there's stress in the system