Ride The Leaders™ — Trade the strongest stocks in the market

The record

Built to find the leaders.

Not a faceless platform. Not an anonymous Discord. One credentialed trader, a published system, and one job: the market's current leaders — and the trade ideas they set up. I won't ask you to trust my past. Watch the record build in public and judge for yourself.

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Former Wall Street portfolio manager

Now managing his own capital, focused entirely on momentum. The difference between this and the anonymous chart accounts: a real process, a real record, and a name that stays accountable.

The record — built in public, graded in print

No screenshots after the fact. No cherry-picked winners. The receipts are the product.

Every idea

published with

exact entry, stop & chase line

Every trade

called in

real time, at the levels

Every stop

reported with

the same precision as a win

Every setup

graded in

R, in the next issue

Every issue, the same discipline: market regime → leadership rankings → the watchlist → high-conviction setups with exact levels → risk management.

No 250-name firehose. No anonymous handle. Just the market's current leaders — and the high-conviction setups that come with them.

"The engine finds a hundred stocks a week. You get the handful that deserve your attention — with the exact levels to trade them."

Not investment advice. Just the leaders.

Ride The Leaders™ is an independent, educational, impersonal publication, not affiliated with or endorsed by any former employer. Nothing here is investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. The author may hold positions in securities discussed and may enter or exit them at any time. Trading involves substantial risk of loss. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Do your own research.

The edge

Built around one principle: ride strength

Markets are led by a small group of stocks at any given time. The work is identifying them early, riding the trend, and protecting capital when the trend breaks. No magic — just a process applied the same way, every week.

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The regime call

"Is it safe to be long right now?" — answered every week from evidence: trend, distribution, leadership breadth. When to press, when to sit in cash. It's half the game, and where most traders bleed out.

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Handpicked setups & the levels that matter

A systematic engine scans the entire universe of liquid U.S. stocks; the setups actually worth trading are handpicked from it — grouped by theme, each with the trigger, the stop zone, and where chasing starts. High-conviction setups with structure, not a 200-ticker firehose.

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The rules, written down

Entry discipline, position sizing, and exit logic — the framework in writing, so you understand why a name is on the list and what would earn an entry.

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The Book

A model portfolio that only takes trades at the levels published in advance. Every entry and exit is recorded when it happens and graded in print, in every Sunday letter and Wednesday update. Members' chat carries the timely alerts — entry levels and exits, no position sizes.

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Process over predictions

No price targets pulled from the air. A repeatable method you can actually run yourself — the goal is your independence, not your dependence.

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Risk first, always

Every idea comes framed by risk: where it's wrong, how much to lose, and when to walk. Survival compounds.

The complete system — every step, start to finish — is published free: THE RIDE THE LEADERS SWING TRADING SYSTEM.

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The scoreboard

The strongest stocks of the year

The 25 top-performing US stocks year-to-date, market cap $4B and above — the raw material the watchlist is drawn from. Strength isn't an opinion; it's a scoreboard.

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#	Ticker	Group	Mkt cap	1-month	YTD	Volatility (ADR)	$ Vol / day	Off 52-wk high
1	SNDK	AI Memory/Data Storage	$212.7B	-25%	+505%	9.6%	$23,184M	-39.0%
2	ERAS	Healthcare	$6.6B	+27%	+414%	6.9%	$109M	-21.3%
3	MXL	Technology	$6.5B	-16%	+311%	12.2%	$409M	-44.2%
4	UCTT	Technology	$4.2B	-14%	+266%	10.2%	$168M	-35.7%
5	IBRX	Healthcare	$7.4B	-9%	+259%	6.8%	$100M	-42.9%
6	DELL	Software	$290.5B	+1%	+248%	6.9%	$2,976M	-6.8%
7	MU	AI Memory/Data Storage	$1.0T	-12%	+223%	6.5%	$46,135M	-26.6%
8	SYRE	Healthcare	$8.9B	+18%	+212%	5.8%	$132M	-2.8%
9	STX	AI Memory/Data Storage	$191.0B	-14%	+209%	7.7%	$4,410M	-25.6%
10	WDC	AI Memory/Data Storage	$179.2B	-19%	+202%	7.7%	$4,571M	-35.0%
11	SIMO	Technology	$9.1B	-16%	+192%	7.5%	$222M	-23.7%
12	TWST	Healthcare	$5.6B	-1%	+185%	6.9%	$147M	-14.4%
13	TXG	Healthcare	$5.9B	+34%	+184%	6.4%	$139M	-6.5%
14	CORT	Healthcare	$10.2B	+17%	+174%	4.4%	$104M	-2.3%
15	VSH	Technology	$5.4B	-31%	+164%	7.9%	$322M	-45.0%
16	IRDM	Space	$4.9B	+8%	+163%	3.9%	$145M	-19.9%
17	DOCN	Software	$12.9B	-17%	+157%	8.4%	$550M	-34.1%
18	DNTH	Healthcare	$4.3B	+14%	+152%	6.0%	$124M	-3.8%
19	INTC	AI Semis & Hardware	$464.0B	-30%	+150%	6.6%	$12,158M	-35.1%
20	LQDA	Healthcare	$7.7B	+14%	+150%	6.3%	$131M	-5.4%
21	UMC	Technology	$48.6B	-30%	+148%	4.7%	$376M	-32.7%
22	AMD	AI Semis & Hardware	$851.1B	+0%	+144%	5.9%	$15,033M	-10.7%
23	SEZL	Financial Services	$5.2B	-3%	+142%	6.9%	$112M	-21.4%
24	HUT	Crypto Miners & Brokers	$12.4B	-5%	+139%	9.4%	$487M	-21.9%
25	ARM	AI Semis & Hardware	$276.7B	-28%	+138%	7.2%	$1,824M	-42.6%

Market data through 2026-07-24 · market cap ≥ $4B · Performance scoreboard, not a buy list — many of these are far too extended to touch. The weekly watchlist is where strength meets entry context. Not investment advice.

Reference

The Momentum Dictionary

Every term used in Ride The Leaders™, in plain English. If a letter ever says something you don't recognize, it's on this page.

Reading the market

Market regime: The market's overall condition — offensive, neutral, or defensive. It answers the first question that matters: is it safe to be long right now? Roughly three of four stocks follow the general market, so the regime decides how aggressive to be before any individual stock is considered.
Distribution day: A day the index falls meaningfully (down 0.2% or more) on higher volume than the day before — big institutions selling into the market. One means little. A cluster of them within a few weeks is how corrections announce themselves. We count them the same way every week.
Accumulation: The opposite of distribution: institutions building positions over weeks or months, visible as persistent buying on above-average volume. A months-long uptrend is usually the footprint of accumulation — big money physically can't finish buying in a day.
Breadth: How many stocks are participating in a move. A rally led by five giant stocks while everything else falls has poor breadth — and less to stand on.
Rotation: Money moving between groups — out of one sector, into another — without leaving the market. The damage in one corner of the tape often funds the strength in another.

Reading a stock

Relative strength (RS): How a stock performs versus the market itself — not whether it went up, but whether it went up more, and fell less. Sustained relative strength over months is the single most important trait of the market's biggest winners.
Moving average (10-day, 20-day, 50-day, 200-day): The average closing price over the last N days, drawn as a line. Leaders in strong trends tend to "ride" their 10- or 20-day line; the 50-day is the line serious institutions defend; the 200-day (or 30-week) separates long-term uptrends from downtrends.
The four stages: Every stock is always basing (going sideways, Stage 1), advancing (uptrend, Stage 2), topping (Stage 3), or declining (Stage 4). You only ever buy Stage 2. The full ten-second test is Lesson 3 of Momentum Investing 101.
Base / flag: A rest period after a big move — price goes sideways or pulls back gently while the stock digests its gains. Tight, quiet bases on shrinking volume are healthy; wide, violent ones are not.
Breakout: Price pushing out of a base through a defined level, ideally on a clear jump in volume. Breakouts follow through in healthy markets and fail in weak ones — which is why the regime gets checked first.
Higher low: A pullback that bottoms above the previous pullback's bottom. A sequence of higher lows means buyers are getting less patient — the signature of demand in control.
Undercut-and-reclaim: Price dips just below an obvious level (flushing out weak holders and triggering stops), then quickly reclaims it. One of the strongest reversal signatures — the dip proved there was nothing below.
Extended: Too far above any reasonable support level to buy sanely. An extended stock can keep rising — but an ordinary pullback would stop you out, which makes it a bad entry even when it's a great stock.
ADR% (average daily range): How much a stock moves in a normal day, as a percentage. A 12% ADR stock swinging 6% means nothing happened; a 3% ADR stock doing the same just made a statement. ADR sets position size — the wilder the stock, the smaller the position.

The trade plan

Trigger: The specific price action that would earn an entry — a level reclaimed, a range broken on volume, a higher low that holds. A trigger is evidence, not a prediction. If it never happens, there was no trade.
Stop zone: Where the setup is wrong. If price gets here, the reason for owning the stock no longer exists, and the position gets sold — before opinions get involved. Decided before entry, when you're calm.
Chase line: Our term for "too late." Beyond this price, an ordinary wiggle would shake you out — the same stock becomes a bad trade purely because of the entry. Paying a bad price for a good stock is Leak #1 in Lesson 1.
R (risk unit): Your risk on a trade, used as the measuring stick. If you buy at 100 with a stop at 95, 1R = 5 points. Sell at 110 and you made +2R; stopped at 95 is −1R. Reporting in R makes wins and losses comparable across every trade.
Position sizing: Deciding how much to buy from the risk, not the conviction: distance to the stop and the account's per-trade risk limit determine the share count. The math, not the mood.
Spec size: A deliberately small position for higher-risk names (wide ADR, repair setups) — sized so that being wrong costs little and being right still matters.

The vocabulary of this letter

Leader: A stock outperforming the market for months, near its highs, under visible accumulation, liquid enough for big money to own. The entire strategy in one word: own these, and only these.
Laggard: The opposite — cheap because it deserves to be. "It's down a lot" is a description, not a reason.
Repair sequence: How broken charts (and markets) heal: a low that holds → a higher low → the key moving average reclaimed on real volume. Until the sequence completes, a bounce is just a bounce.
Cash is a position: Not being invested is an active decision, and some weeks it's the best trade available. Great investors aren't always invested — they're aggressively invested when conditions deserve it.

Educational content only. Nothing in Ride The Leaders™ constitutes investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Always do your own research.