Systematic trading forces an investor to commit to a realistic trading plan. Learning how to become an ideal investor requires a truthful understanding of ourselves as much as the market risks.
The ideal investor
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Systematic trading forces an investor to commit to a realistic trading plan. Learning how to become an ideal investor requires a truthful understanding of ourselves as much as the market risks.
Get stock picks and trading strategies every weekend and learn how to trade trending stocks.
Understand market trends, find trading profits ... and still have time to enjoy life! It doesn't have to be that difficult.
After years of following markets and investing, diligently trying to understand how and why stocks move, it's time you put aside the questions of 'how' and 'why'.
What IS important is that stock prices DO move and that these prices tend to move in TRENDS.
Trend analysis helps identify WHEN to buy a stock, and WHEN to sell it.
If you need a simpler approach to stock market analysis and stock trading...
Stock Trends WILL help you!
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"See the Big Picture, Not Noise"
Succeeding in the stock market takes a lot of dedication. But it also helps if you have a mentor and tools that allow you to succeed. Stock Trends is designed to be your partner in your trading plan. It's designed to keep you focused on the simplest, most understandable aspects of a very complex market. It's designed to make trading simple but methodical. Most importantly, it's transparent – the concept behind the analysis is easily understood – and it's supported by a convincing record of success.
Stock Trends can help!
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Subscribers have access to weekly filter reports that help investors identify promising trade opportunities in the market. These filter reports have delivered many winning trades to subscribers over the three decades Stock Trends Weekly Reporter has been published. No need to wade through vast amounts of information - Stay focused and profits will follow!
"Tools That Make Trend Analysis Easy"

Weekly Stock Trends Filter Reports include:
Here's a sample of one of the many weekly reports that keep you focused on where the market opportunities are. The Stock Trends Picks of the Week report filters the weekly trading action and finds promising buy recommendations on the NYSE, Nasdaq, Amex, and TSX.

How effective is the Picks of the Week report? Check out this article (Monte Carlo Simulations Validate the Statistical Edge of Stock Trends Picks of the Week) that analyzes the Picks of the Week for the last thirty years and simulates results that you could have achieved. When used with additional layers of filtering, the Picks of the Week report gives investors a measurable edge.
Subscribers can create multiple Watch Lists to monitor their stocks. Keep track of your favourite stocks, and compare various portfolios.

Part of being a successful investor is knowing when to sell. Our successful Stock Trends trading strategies will help you with portfolios you can follow. Currently, there are 20 active Stock Trends Portfolios, and every week subscribers get detailed transaction records highlighting buy and sell activities. These model portfolios show how automated trend trading strategies can be profitable!

We'll be adding even more trading strategies in the future, but investors are bound to find the guidance they need to be successful. With the help of Stock Trends Weekly Reporter, you can manage your own trading strategy!
Technical analysis attempts to turn past patterns of price movements into a prediction about future price movement. The Stock Trends Inference Model takes a quantitative look at the Stock Trends Reports and tells us something about how future returns have been distributed among stocks with similar trend and price momentum characteristics. Learn about how to turn these returns expectations into profitable trading.
This unique analysis is not available anywhere else and is provided for over 7,000 North American stocks and exchange-traded funds. Subscribers get access to the Profile section of every Stock Trends Report. Here's a sample Trend Profile report on Apple Inc. (APPL):
Subscribers also have access to our weekly Map of Stock Trends. This hierarchical treemap reveals the sectors, industry groups, industries, and stocks/ETFs with the best statistical probability of outperforming the random outcome benchmark employed by the Stock Trends Inference Model. This visualization allows users to drill down into the industry and indicator categories to find the best trend trading opportunities.
Although Stock Trends is a price trend analysis service, Stock Trends Weekly Reporter subscribers will also benefit from our reports on company Key Ratios and Profitability Trends. This premium content is provided in the Stock Trends Report pages for thousands of individual stocks, providing valuable insight into how a company compares to its peers in multiple metrics - Profitability, Valuation Measures, Financial Strength, and Management Effectiveness. These comparisons are also presented in visualizations that make it easy for investors to focus on the most important aspects of measuring how well a company is being managed. Also presented are visualizations of the trend in company profitability as expressed in the relationship between revenue growth and the growth in margins. Profits are the Mother's Milk of the stock market, so investors are well-advised to understand how well a company is able to deliver and maintain the margins that feed profits.
Here is an example of these reports presented in the Fundamentals tab of the Stock Trends Report page:


Put an end to overly complex ways of trying to out-smart the market.
"Trade with Confidence—not Guesswork. Weekly Picks + Trend Profiles + Portfolio Reports + Inference Models + Visual Maps + Valuation Metrics = Everything you need."
Stock Trends' unique approach to stock analysis gives investors a simple, but effective way to systematically trade the market. It's the kind of analysis that appeals to a systematic mind. It's your key to trading success!
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Get stock picks and trading strategies every weekend and learn how to trade trending stocks.
Understand market trends, find trading profits ... and still have time to enjoy life! It doesn't have to be that difficult.
After years of following markets and investing, diligently trying to understand how and why stocks move, it's time you put aside the questions of 'how' and 'why'.
What IS important is that stock prices DO move and that these prices tend to move in TRENDS.
Trend analysis helps identify WHEN to buy a stock, and WHEN to sell it.
If you need a simpler approach to stock market analysis and stock trading...
Stock Trends WILL help you!
![]()
"See the Big Picture, Not Noise"
Succeeding in the stock market takes a lot of dedication. But it also helps if you have a mentor and tools that allow you to succeed. Stock Trends is designed to be your partner in your trading plan. It's designed to keep you focused on the simplest, most understandable aspects of a very complex market. It's designed to make trading simple but methodical. Most importantly, it's transparent – the concept behind the analysis is easily understood – and it's supported by a convincing record of success.
Stock Trends can help!
![]()
Subscribers have access to weekly filter reports that help investors identify promising trade opportunities in the market. These filter reports have delivered many winning trades to subscribers over the three decades Stock Trends Weekly Reporter has been published. No need to wade through vast amounts of information - Stay focused and profits will follow!
"Tools That Make Trend Analysis Easy"

Weekly Stock Trends Filter Reports include:
Here's a sample of one of the many weekly reports that keep you focused on where the market opportunities are. The Stock Trends Picks of the Week report filters the weekly trading action and finds promising buy recommendations on the NYSE, Nasdaq, Amex, and TSX.

How effective is the Picks of the Week report? Check out this article (Monte Carlo Simulations Validate the Statistical Edge of Stock Trends Picks of the Week) that analyzes the Picks of the Week for the last thirty years and simulates results that you could have achieved. When used with additional layers of filtering, the Picks of the Week report gives investors a measurable edge.
Subscribers can create multiple Watch Lists to monitor their stocks. Keep track of your favourite stocks, and compare various portfolios.

Part of being a successful investor is knowing when to sell. Our successful Stock Trends trading strategies will help you with portfolios you can follow. Currently, there are 20 active Stock Trends Portfolios, and every week subscribers get detailed transaction records highlighting buy and sell activities. These model portfolios show how automated trend trading strategies can be profitable!

We'll be adding even more trading strategies in the future, but investors are bound to find the guidance they need to be successful. With the help of Stock Trends Weekly Reporter, you can manage your own trading strategy!
Technical analysis attempts to turn past patterns of price movements into a prediction about future price movement. The Stock Trends Inference Model takes a quantitative look at the Stock Trends Reports and tells us something about how future returns have been distributed among stocks with similar trend and price momentum characteristics. Learn about how to turn these returns expectations into profitable trading.
This unique analysis is not available anywhere else and is provided for over 7,000 North American stocks and exchange-traded funds. Subscribers get access to the Profile section of every Stock Trends Report. Here's a sample Trend Profile report on Apple Inc. (APPL):
Subscribers also have access to our weekly Map of Stock Trends. This hierarchical treemap reveals the sectors, industry groups, industries, and stocks/ETFs with the best statistical probability of outperforming the random outcome benchmark employed by the Stock Trends Inference Model. This visualization allows users to drill down into the industry and indicator categories to find the best trend trading opportunities.
Although Stock Trends is a price trend analysis service, Stock Trends Weekly Reporter subscribers will also benefit from our reports on company Key Ratios and Profitability Trends. This premium content is provided in the Stock Trends Report pages for thousands of individual stocks, providing valuable insight into how a company compares to its peers in multiple metrics - Profitability, Valuation Measures, Financial Strength, and Management Effectiveness. These comparisons are also presented in visualizations that make it easy for investors to focus on the most important aspects of measuring how well a company is being managed. Also presented are visualizations of the trend in company profitability as expressed in the relationship between revenue growth and the growth in margins. Profits are the Mother's Milk of the stock market, so investors are well-advised to understand how well a company is able to deliver and maintain the margins that feed profits.
Here is an example of these reports presented in the Fundamentals tab of the Stock Trends Report page:


Put an end to overly complex ways of trying to out-smart the market.
"Trade with Confidence—not Guesswork. Weekly Picks + Trend Profiles + Portfolio Reports + Inference Models + Visual Maps + Valuation Metrics = Everything you need."
Stock Trends' unique approach to stock analysis gives investors a simple, but effective way to systematically trade the market. It's the kind of analysis that appeals to a systematic mind. It's your key to trading success!
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A Bullish stock is not the same thing as a broadly Bullish market. A leading sector is not necessarily strengthening. A favorable historical return distribution is not a forecast. And a market environment that resembles a persistent Bullish structure can still contain weakening participation beneath the surface. Those distinctions are becoming increasingly important because investment research is no longer consumed only by people looking at charts and tables. The same evidence can now be queried by portfolio systems, software applications and AI agents capable of combining thousands of observations in seconds. That makes the quality of the underlying market intelligence more important, not less. Before a machine can reason about a market, the data must make clear what is being measured, which population it describes, when it was observed and what can legitimately be inferred from it.
Five months ago, the Stock Trends data showed an unusual development. Favorable forward-return distributions were expanding beyond established Bullish trends and appearing in Weak Bullish, consolidation, and even selected Bearish configurations. The implication was that probability was improving before conventional trend confirmation. The September 18 dataset tells the next chapter of that story. Forward probability has not continued to disperse across trend states. It has moved back toward Bullish structures, particularly among broad-market ETFs. Yet the common-stock universe beneath those indexes has barely become more bullish at all.
The recent Stock Trends editorials have established that the current market is not defined by a unified directional regime. Instead, it is characterized by internal dispersion, where leadership is fragmented across sectors, industries, and individual securities. The latest dataset reinforces that conclusion. But more importantly, it reveals a structural shift beneath the surface: forward return probabilities are no longer tightly coupled to traditional trend classifications.
The broad market still reads as a rotation market rather than a generalized expansion phase. Energy, Materials, and Utilities remain the clearest sector-level leadership blocs, but the current Stock Trends dataset shows that a second layer of leadership is now becoming more visible beneath the sector averages. That secondary leadership is important because it does not present itself as broad participation. It appears instead through specific industry groups whose internal trend structure is materially stronger than that of their parent sectors. In this week’s data, the clearest examples are Semiconductors and Equipment, Telecommunications, Containers & Packaging, and Banking. $19.95/Month
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