Common questions

FAQ

Last updated: August 12, 2026

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What is The Coil Report?

A financial publication. A scanner runs against a defined universe of stocks, looks for volatility-contraction patterns confirmed by a fundamentals screen, grades what it finds, and we publish the results with the reasoning attached. The methodology page documents what the scan checks.

It is not an investment adviser and does not give personalized advice. Nothing published is a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security, and none of it is tailored to your situation, your account, or your risk tolerance. See Can you tell me what to buy? below.

What do I actually get?

The Letter is free and requires no card, indefinitely — there is no trial clock on it. To see what a paid daily issue looks like before deciding, read a full Signals issue here.

Which tier should I start with?

Match it to how often you actually look at the market, not to how much you want to spend.

• If you review positions on the weekend and set your week up on Sunday night, Letter is the whole product for you. A daily letter would just pile up unread.
• If you check after the close most days, want to be positioned before a breakout rather than chasing it, and want the widest universe plus the level that says a setup is over, that’s Signals. There is one paid tier and it carries everything — nothing is held back for a higher one.

Start with the Letter. It is free indefinitely and it publishes the Receipts, so you can watch how the calls actually resolve for as long as you like before paying anything. The 30-day guarantee covers your first payment either way.

Do you tell me when to sell?

We publish exit levels, not exit instructions. Signals setups carry profit targets at 1R, 2R and 3R — multiples of the trade's own risk, so a tight base earns a nearer target and a loose one a further target — plus a volatility-scaled trailing stop that moves up only when the stock makes a new high, and the invalidation level: the price below which the setup is simply no longer the setup we described.

Those are reference levels for you to apply to your own plan. We do not tell you what size to take, when to scale, or when to be out, and we have no idea what else is in your account.

What do the grades mean?

Each setup is scored across four factors — pattern confidence, how tight the base contraction is, relative strength against the market, and the fundamentals score — then converted to a single letter, A through F. The trend template is not scored: every graded setup has already passed it, so including it would just add the same points to everything. We publish the letter rather than the underlying number on purpose: a stock scoring 74 is not meaningfully different from one scoring 76, and two decimals of false precision would be a worse signal than a clean grade.

A grade describes the quality of the setup as the scan sees it today. It is not a prediction, and an A can fail while a C works.

Why isn't there a win rate on this page?

Because a backtested win rate is a number whose window we would have chosen. Anything we could put in an advertisement is something we selected, and selected numbers read as a performance promise. So we do not market one, and you will not find one anywhere on this site.

A forward-tracked record is a different object. Every graded setup is logged on the day it is graded — before anyone knows how it resolves — and nothing is removed afterwards. That running record goes to Signals subscribers, losers included, and every signal that finishes also appears in the free Letter's Receipts section — wins and losses alike. It can be published precisely because it is not curated: we do not get to pick the window on a record that is written before the outcome exists.

Two honest caveats. The record is young, so it currently shows the grades assigned and the size of the sample rather than resolved outcomes, and the issue says exactly that rather than implying more than it has. And a record of what happened is not a forecast of what will happen. The Coil Report is a publication, not an investment adviser, and none of this is a performance promise.

What happens in a bad market?

The scan reads the broad tape before it surfaces anything, and it gets stricter as conditions deteriorate: a larger volume surge is required to confirm a breakout, stop floors tighten, and in a confirmed downtrend the sizing framework goes to zero — the issue still shows you what the scanner found, and it sizes nothing new. Some issues will tell you there is nothing to do. That is the intended output, not a failure — cash held because the tape says so is a position.

Can you tell me what to buy? Can I ask about a specific stock?

No, and this is not us being coy. Answering "should I buy this" for an individual reader is personalized investment advice, which requires a licence we do not hold. We cannot do it for a subscriber, by email, at any tier, or for any amount of money.

What we can do is explain anything we have published: what a pivot is, why a name was graded the way it was, why something was suppressed, how the regime gate works. Ask us about the method and you will get a real answer.

Is this automated or does a person write it?

Both, and the split matters. The scan is fully automated — the same code runs every session, so the same conditions produce the same output regardless of how anyone felt that day. The commentary and the editorial decisions around it are human. Nobody overrides the scanner to slip in a favourite name.

What universe do you scan?

The Letter covers a curated, deduplicated set of roughly 200 names drawn from the S&P 100, the Nasdaq 100, and hand-picked growth companies. Signals covers a substantially larger universe, including a separate small and mid-cap layer screened for liquidity so the levels are actually tradeable.

How do I read a setup?

• Watch above (pivot) — the level the stock has to clear for the pattern to be confirmed. Below it, the setup has not triggered.
• Contraction — how much tighter the base has become versus where it started. Tighter generally means a cleaner, more decisive resolution.
• Invalidation (Signals) — below this, the setup is no longer the setup.
• Targets and trailing stop (Signals) — reference levels, described above.

How does billing work?

Subscriptions renew automatically at your rate until you cancel, and your rate is locked as long as the subscription stays active without interruption. Cancel anytime from the subscriber-portal link in any issue — no notice period, no fee, no phone call — and you keep access through the end of the period you have paid for.

There is a 30-day money-back guarantee on your first payment, whichever tier you start on, no explanation required. Full terms, including how surprise renewals are handled, are on the refund & cancellation policy page.

I'm not getting the emails.

Check spam and promotions first, then add our sending address to your contacts so future issues land in the inbox. If issues are still missing, email hello@coilreport.com from the address you subscribed with and we will sort it out.

How do I cancel?

Use the subscriber-portal link in the footer of any issue, or email hello@coilreport.com. No retention call, no exit survey you have to argue with.