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Ventryx Weekly

Two-minute market round-up, every Sunday

AI presenter: NovaUpdated every Sunday
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    Nova is an AI presenter: the script is generated from Ventryx’s own data, the voice is Kokoro text-to-speech and the 3D model is from Microsoft’s Rocketbox library (MIT licence). Research, not financial advice.

    Opening bell, today
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    Breakout setups
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    Market breadth
    –above 200-day avg
    Avg. analyst upside
    –long-term list

    Day tradingOpening bell · breakout scanner

    A classic day-trading method: let the first 15 minutes settle, then trade the stocks that break out of that early range. Every setup is tracked live, so you can see which reached their target and which were stopped out.

    1 · Mark the range

    From 14:30 to 14:45 UK time, note each stock’s highest and lowest price. That box is the “opening range”.

    2 · Wait for a breakout

    If the price pushes above the box, that’s a buy signal (long). If it drops below, that’s a short. Stocks that gapped and opened on heavy volume rank highest.

    3 · Exit automatically

    Each trade has a target twice as far away as its stop. Whichever is hit first ends it; anything still open is closed at 21:00 UK time.

    #CompanySignalStatusResult£10 inGapOpening rangeEntryExit targetStopProfitRiskTriggeredPriceTodayMarket valueOpen vol.Setup scoreTodayWhere to trade

    Overall profit

    What you would have made putting the same amount into every trade that triggered.

    Auto-trader · opening bell on autopilot

    Connects the breakout scanner to a broker account at Alpaca. Between 09:45 and 11:00 New York time (14:45–16:00 UK) it buys fresh breakouts as bracket orders, so the exit target and the stop sit on the broker’s servers and each trade closes itself. If Claude is connected it reads each stock’s latest headlines first and vetoes trades with obvious news risk. Everything still open is closed by 15:40 New York time; nothing is held overnight.

    Checking…

    MonthlyMomentum · monthly top 5

    The strongest-tested strategy so far. Once a month, hold the 5 stocks that have risen most over the past year, then swap them at the next month end. A market safety rule keeps you in cash when the whole market is falling. One decision a month: no day trading, no stop-losses.

    1 · Rank by the past year

    At each month end, rank every stock by how much it rose over the last 12 months, leaving out the latest month (very short-term moves tend to reverse).

    2 · Hold the top 5, if the market is healthy

    Put the same amount into each of the 5 strongest and hold them all month. If the S&P 500 ended the month below its 200-day average, hold cash instead.

    3 · Swap monthly

    At the next month end, re-rank. Sell the ones that dropped out of the top 5 and buy the newcomers. “At the swap” shows what to do with each.

    #CompanySignalAt the swapThis month£10 inBought atPriceToday12-month riseRiskMarket value1 yearWhere to trade

    Overall profit

    What you would have made putting the same amount into each of the 5 holdings every month.

    Your plan

    Tell it the day you bought and it works out when to cash out and what to swap.

      Why this one: tested on 12 years of daily prices for the same ~100 stocks (Oct 2014 – Oct 2026): 545 monthly holdings averaged +3.4% each, 1.9 points better than simply holding the average stock over the same month, and it passed the luck check (t = 2.5, ahead by a similar amount in both halves of the period). Momentum is one of the most-studied effects in finance research, and the market rule kept it out of the worst sell-offs. Five stocks is concentrated: single months can swing hard, and momentum can fall sharply when the market turns.

      12 monthsLong term · 12-month ideas

      Ranked on the published Wall Street analyst consensus (rating, number of analysts, mean price target) plus profitability, growth, trend and volatility. The exit value is the analysts’ mean 12-month target. Click the analysts on any row to see how they rate it, their price targets and recent upgrades or downgrades, or open Articles to read the latest coverage.

      #CompanyResearchSectorPriceExit valueUpsideAnalystsMarket valueProfit (12m)MarginP/ERev. growth52-wk rangeRiskDividendScore1 yearWhere to trade

      ExperimentalCrypto & meme coins · monthly top 5

      The same monthly routine as Momentum, for coins: hold the 5 coins that have risen most over the last 90 days, swap at each month end, and sit in cash while Bitcoin is below its 200-day average. It scans about 50 coins, including the big meme coins. Experimental: it beat holding the average coin in testing, but not by enough to rule out luck.

      1 · Rank by the last 90 days

      At each month end, rank every coin with real trading volume (at least $20M a day) by how much it rose over the last 90 days.

      2 · Hold the top 5, if Bitcoin is healthy

      Put the same amount into each of the 5 strongest coins and hold them all month. If Bitcoin ended the month below its 200-day average, hold cash instead: when Bitcoin falls, almost everything else falls harder.

      3 · Swap monthly

      At the next month end, re-rank. Sell the ones that dropped out of the top 5 and buy the newcomers. “At the swap” shows what to do with each.

      #CoinSignalAt the swapThis month£10 inBought atPriceToday90-day riseRiskDaily trading1 yearWhere to trade

      Overall profit

      What you would have made putting the same amount into each of the 5 holdings every month.

      Your plan

      Tell it the day you bought and it works out when to cash out and what to swap.

        The evidence, honestly: tested on daily prices for about 50 coins from April 2019 to October 2026, including coins that later collapsed (FTX Token, EOS and others) so it isn’t only survivors. Its 270 monthly holdings averaged +10.1%, 3.4 points better than holding the average coin, and £10 per coin made more than the same money in Bitcoin. But the typical holding lost 1.3%: a few huge winners carried it, single coins fell up to 67% in a month, and it did not pass the luck check (t = 1.3). Of 16 versions tested, every one beat the average coin, which is encouraging, but none of the top-5 versions was conclusive. Treat this as an experiment with money you can afford to lose.
        Risk warning: Don’t invest unless you’re prepared to lose all the money you invest. This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Meme coins can lose most of their value in days.

        Free books · investing and trading

        Classics you can read free and legally: public-domain books from Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive, plus guides their authors give away. Click a book to start reading; it opens on the original site.

        How it works

        Scan

        • About 100 large, liquid US-listed stocks.
        • Every 15 minutes while the US market is open (14:30–21:00 UK time), plus once after the close.
        • This page checks for a new scan every minute and highlights changed rows.

        Opening bell

        • Opening range = high and low of the first 15 minutes.
        • Ranked at 09:45 New York time on the gap, opening volume against normal and the 20-day trend, never on how the trade turned out.
        • If a bar touches both the stop and the target, it counts as stopped.

        Long term

        • Needs 8+ analysts and a profit over the last 12 months.
        • Score weights analyst upside, rating, 6-month momentum, revenue growth, margin, the 200-day trend and volatility.
        • Articles come from Yahoo Finance’s news feed for each stock.

        Where to trade

        Long ideas can be bought as shares through any FCA-authorised broker offering US stocks, such as Interactive Brokers, Trading 212, IG, Hargreaves Lansdown, Freetrade or eToro. Short ideas need a product that profits from falls, such as CFDs or spread bets. Ventryx has no link to any broker; check any firm on the FCA Register.

        Important: Ventryx is a work-in-progress research tool, not financial advice and not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Setups are generated automatically from delayed market data and published analyst forecasts, and the scanner’s results are tracked on paper. The auto-trader only trades the owner’s own broker account, in Alpaca’s simulated paper mode unless live trading is switched on deliberately. Past results don’t predict future ones. Prices can fall as well as rise and you could lose money. Day trading is high risk. CFDs and spread bets are complex, leveraged products and a high proportion of retail accounts lose money using them.

        Ventryx is a self-initiated work in progress by Shaun Finch, 2026. Market data and articles: Yahoo Finance via yfinance, may be delayed.