Stop guessing. Every session, a dual-discipline scanner grades volatility-contraction setups A through F and hands you the two numbers that matter — the exact level to watch and the exact level to walk away — in plain English. Before the breakout, not after.
Every issue opens with the regime read, followed by the setups approaching their pivot. This is what Signals readers see after every close.
The pattern is a volatility contraction — a base that tightens into a pivot — a concept popularized by trader Mark Minervini, screened here alongside growth-fundamentals criteria in the CAN SLIM tradition. Chart feeds show you what tightened. Screener platforms hand you a tool and wish you luck. This letter runs the whole workflow — regime, pattern, fundamentals, grade — and writes up the result in plain English.
| What you get | Chart-feed services | DIY screener platforms | The Coil Report |
|---|---|---|---|
| VCP pattern detection | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fundamental confirmation (CAN SLIM) | — | DIY | ✓ built in |
| Market-regime gate (when not to act) | — | — | ✓ leads every issue |
| A–F breakout quality grade | — | — | ✓ every setup |
| False-breakout suppression, with reasons | — | — | ✓ shown, not hidden |
| Plain-English read on each setup | — | — | ✓ the whole point |
| Rule changes tested on historical and walk-forward splits, with the record kept | undisclosed | undisclosed | ✓ documented |
The same process runs after every close. Order matters — most services skip the first gate entirely.
Follow-through days, distribution counts, breadth, rally age. The regime decides how strict the screen runs and how aggressive the letter is allowed to be. In bad tape, the letter tells you to stand down — that restraint is the product.
Every session, 200 liquid large- and mid-cap names — the S&P 100, the Nasdaq 100, and a hand-picked list of high-momentum growth names — get screened first. Thin, illiquid stocks produce noisy patterns, so we trade breadth for quality. Every survivor must then clear the 8-point trend template and show a genuine volatility contraction. Then CAN SLIM fundamentals — earnings, sales, ROE, leadership — either confirm the setup or flag it as technical-only.
Survivors get a breakout-quality grade, a composite score, the pivot (entry) level, and a short plain-English read. Signals adds the per-setup invalidation level, profit targets, a trailing stop and the deeper analysis around them. False-breakout candidates get suppressed — and you see why.
Raw price action looks like noise. Flip to the Coil Report layer and the same base shows the three contractions, the pivot, and the volume dry-up the scanner is built to catch.
This is a constructed example built to show the format. It is not a current or past pick.
Price has carved three progressively tighter pullbacks against a flat ceiling near the pivot. Each swing gives up less ground than the last, and volume has thinned through the base — a healthy contraction. Earnings and sales growth clear the fundamental screen, which is what earns the A. A move through the pivot on expanding volume is the event the pattern is built to catch. Failure to hold the most recent low would void the setup.
The grade isn’t always an A — and not every setup ships. Three more constructed examples, across the range:
Three-contraction base, volume dried to 0.2x average, fundamentals confirmed. The clean case the pattern is built to catch.
Contraction present, but relative strength is lagging and no fundamental confirmation. Technical-only — a weaker case, graded accordingly.
Base looked clean, but earnings hit in three sessions. Suppressed with the reason shown — never sent as a live signal.
All three are constructed for illustration, not real tickers or real trade history. No dates, prices, or outcomes shown are actual — same rule as the sample above.
Every qualified setup is graded on trend strength, pattern quality, base structure, relative strength, and fundamentals — so you know where to put your attention first.
When a setup breaks its pivot on qualifying volume, it moves to the top of the next issue as an ACTION signal — flagged before you have to go looking for it. Daily tiers also carry the exact distance to the pivot on every name, so you see what is closing in before it triggers.
Every issue opens with the regime read: the market's state in plain English, SPY against its 50- and 200-day, and the distribution-day count. Signals adds the sizing framework, market breadth, and a sector rotation table. Context before candidates, always.
Setups that look right but carry a documented flaw — an earnings report landing inside the window, or price already extended past the pivot — get held back with the reason shown. A confirmed breakout needs price above pivot and real volume behind it, not a drift on light trading — so on a day nothing confirms, you see exactly which names approached the line and by how much they missed. A quiet day reads as discipline, not silence.
Regime-adjusted percentages published to every reader alike: how the current tape scales a maximum position-size ceiling and stop discipline. A general ceiling, not a position size calculated for you, and never individual advice.
Pivot levels are written to map onto your broker’s screener and conditional orders — plus per-setup invalidation levels on Signals — so acting on your own research takes minutes, not evenings.
No dashboards to configure. No screener filters to rebuild. The letter arrives after the close; by morning, you have a plan.
Risk-on, yellow light, or stand-down. One sentence tells you how aggressive to be today. No second-guessing.
Setups nearest their pivot sit at the top, sorted by TO GO percentage. Grades and reads tell you which ones deserve your attention.
Pivot and invalidation levels are written to drop straight into your broker. Enter your orders before the open and walk away.
Everything above is illustrative, so here is the opposite: an unedited excerpt from a recent letter — real names, real levels, real regime call. Pull up any of these charts and check the numbers yourself. (Dated August 24, 2026 — archived for verification.)
“The market’s still up but showing cracks. Translation: be patient. Watch the list below, but this isn’t a week to chase anything.”
Every issue leads with this. When the tape says sit still, the letter says so — that call comes before any name on the list.
Prologis — watch above $143.47, now trading $143.35.
ABBV — watch above $266.96, now trading $264.49.
Philip Morris — watch above $194.26, now trading $191.47.
See what the Signals tier looks like in full — a different real, dated issue: read it end to end →
Cash held deliberately is risk management. Cash held by accident is missed opportunity. Our regime gate distinguishes the two. When conditions degrade, the report says “stand down” — and shows you why each held-back setup did not make the cut: an earnings report inside the window, or price already extended past the pivot. You stop overtrading in choppy markets not by willpower, but by evidence.
The entry price is easy to check, so nobody lies about it. What decides whether a trade worked is where it ended — and that usually gets picked later, once everyone can see how the chart turned out. We took that choice away.
The list is locked the night it’s made. Publishing tomorrow’s setups would just hand the product away, so instead we post a fingerprint of that day’s graded names — a code that could only have come from that exact list. Nothing can be added to it later because it worked, or dropped because it didn’t.
Then the names come out. After 57 days — long enough that a setup is history rather than a trade — the full row is published on the public record: the name, the grade, the levels, and what actually happened. It either matches the fingerprint posted that night or it doesn’t, and anyone can check.
The exit is a rule, not a judgment call. Hold the stop. Move it to breakeven once the trade has made what it risked. Then trail it behind the high. Same rule, every position, every time. We don’t get to pick a flattering moment to call it a win.
Every finished trade shows up. Winners and losers. There is no shortlist.
This doesn’t make us right. It makes us checkable — and you can do the checking before you pay us anything.
It is also the one part of this that can’t be produced on demand. Anyone can rewrite their pitch this afternoon. Nobody can go back and commit to last year’s calls.
Every plan is the same general-circulation letter — the difference is how often and how deep, never who it’s tailored to.
Rule changes are tested on historical data and walk-forward splits before they touch live signals, and the record of those tests is kept — including the ones that failed and the claims we withdrew. No black boxes. Free screeners break without notice. The Coil Report breaks nothing silently — if a filter fails validation, it doesn’t ship.
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The Letter is free, every Friday: the regime read, the week’s confirmed breakouts, and the setups sitting closest to a level. No card, no trial clock, no expiry.