NASDAQ Bullish New High Portfolio

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NASDAQ Bullish New High Portfolio

Current Strategy Summary

Buys: 0 Sells: 0
Holdings: 12

Performance

2026 ytd: -18.9%
1 week: -1.0%
1 year: -60.0%
*5 year: -15.2%
*10 year: -7.6%
*since inception (36.2yrs): +10.9%
*avg annual return

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The Stock Trends NASDAQ Bullish New High trading strategy, defined below, has averaged 16% annual returns over the 32-year period from January 1990 to December 2021!

 

ST NASDAQ Bullish New High Portfolio Strategy Performance - 1990 to 2021:

Year Avg Invested Capital ($) Net Gain/(Loss) ($) ST Portfolio (%)* S&P 500 (%) Difference (%)
2021 58,491 6,766 11.4 26.9 -15.5
2020 31,698 4,107 13.4 14.3 -0.9
2019 29,434 -9,230 -31.8 30.3 -62.1
2018 76,604 -3,257 -4.2 -7.0 2.8
2017 102,264 6,465 6.3 19.4 -13.1
2016 41,509 7,306 18.5 9.5 9.0
2015 44,340 -9,580 -21.2 -1.3 -19.9
2014 38,113 -3,040 -7.9 13.4 -21.3
2013 68,868 13,869 20.0 31.3 -11.3
2012 51,509 -2,075 -4.0 11.5 -15.5
2011 36,038 -5,585 -15.3 0.0 -15.3
2010 82,075 4,299 5.3 12.8 -7.5
2009 36,792 10,022 28.0 29.1 -1.1
2008 10,566 -6,924 -64.3 -41.0 -23.3
2007 59,057 -586 -1.0 4.2 -5.2
2006 63,774 -3,436 -5.4 13.6 -19.0
2005 59,057 3,128 5.3 3.0 2.3
2004 65,283 55,024 83.4 10.4 73.0
2003 98,868 75,845 76.6 25.2 51.4
2002 67,170 -12,392 -18.3 -24.6 6.3
2001 84,717 4,628 5.4 -12.1 17.5
2000 35,283 22,512 64.0 -10.1 74.1
1999 28,679 6,992 24.2 19.5 4.7
1998 61,887 -12,768 -20.2 31.0 -51.2
1997 186,226 59,058 31.7 23.7 8.0
1996 131,321 18,785 14.3 22.9 -8.6
1995 128,868 53,924 42.4 34.1 8.3
1994 55,660 -21,279 -38.2 -1.5 -36.7
1993 136,226 25,507 18.5 7.1 11.4
1992 63,774 11,805 18.7 8.2 10.5
1991 57,736 31,630 54.6 23.7 30.9

* ST portfolio annual returns are based on average invested capital for the year.

 

You can review a history of ALL completed positions (i.e. a position is 'completed' when it is bought and sold): Trading History

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STOCK TRENDS NASDAQ BULLISH NEW HIGH TRADING STRATEGY


The trading criteria defined for the Stock Trends NASDAQ Bullish New High are as follows:

BUY a stock when:

  • tagged with a "Bullish" indicator (), and
  • weekly volume is above 100,000 shares, and volume of trading is at least twice the 13-week average volume (volume tagged as high - ), and
  • price movement on the week exceeds the comparative market index (+ sign beside the RSI), and
  • week closing price is at a new 52-week high, and
  • finally, limit the selection to stocks trading above $2 at the time of entry.

 

Note that transaction costs are factored into the cost of purchases and the net proceeds of sales at 1% in and 1% out, or 2% commission on a round trip. 

 

SELL criteria are as follows:

  • Sell Trigger #1: A Bearish Crossover ().
  • Sell Trigger #2: A Stop Loss provision is defined for each position held, setting the stop price at 15% below the highest closing price (minimum $0.50 below). If a stock is trading at or below the stop price at the end of a trading week, it is sold at the weekly closing price. Stop prices are moved up with any weekly increase in the stock's price, but, once increased, are never moved back down. 
  • Sell Trigger #3: When the Stock Trends indicator turns from Bullish () to Weak Bullish ().
  • Sell Trigger #5: When the RSI +/- indicator has been (-) for 3 consecutive weeks.

 

Stock Trends NASDAQ Bullish New High Portfolio has a winning percentage (the number of trades that provided positive returns as a percentage of the total number of trades) of 37%. What makes the system successful is the ratio of the average gains on positive return trades to the average losses on negative return trades. One way to represent this relationship and measure the profitability of a trading system is the Profit Factor:

 

Trading Statistics

 
Total # of positions taken: 1095
# of winning positions (winning %): 407 (37%)
Average gain(%) per winning position: 25%
Average loss(%) per losing position: 10%
Profit factor**: 1.5
Maximum gain(%) on a position: 440%
Maximum loss(%): -51%
Annualized return on average invested capital: 16.1%
Average invested capital: $65,863
Average # of positions held: 7
Average # of weeks invested in each position: 10

* trading stats compiled at December 31, 2021 

 **Profit Factor = (% of winning trades X average $ gains on winning trades) / ABSOLUTE VALUE[(% of losing trades X average $ losses on losing trades)]

 

Stock Trends NASDAQ Bullish New High Portfolio Distribution of Returns

 

 

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Stock Trends Editorial

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    War, Inflation, and Rotation: What Stock Trends Reveals After the Middle East Shock This week's market headlines have been dominated by war, oil, and inflation fears. However, the Stock Trends context indicates that this is not a broad liquidation. It is a disciplined rotation into sectors tied to scarcity, resilience, and security. Markets do not move from a blank slate. They rotate, they re-price, and they reveal where capital was already preparing to move before the headlines become obvious. This past week’s escalation in the Middle East has undeniably shaken investor confidence, but the latest Stock Trends dataset suggests that the deeper message is not indiscriminate panic. It is a reordering of leadership.
    07 March 2026 Read more...
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    Not Risk-On. Not Risk-Off. Rotation. Not Risk-On. Not Risk-Off. Rotation. In our recent editorial, The Hard Asset Regime Is Not a Trade — It’s a Structure, we examined the persistent leadership emerging in gold and materials and argued that real assets were no longer functioning as short-term hedges, but as structural participants in the market. The current Stock Trends dataset extends that thesis — but in a different direction. The 13-week ST-IM probability model is no longer pointing to a narrow leadership cluster. It is identifying a market redistributing capital across multiple durable themes simultaneously. This is not a simple “risk-on” environment. It is not a defensive “risk-off” retreat. It is rotation.
    02 March 2026 Read more...
  • The Hard-Asset Regime Is Not a Trade — It’s a Structure
    The Hard-Asset Regime Is Not a Trade — It’s a Structure Markets rarely move randomly. They rotate. They reallocate. They transition from one leadership regime to another. And when that transition is real, it shows up not in headlines — but in breadth. This week’s Stock Trends universe reveals something decisive. When we measure common stocks only (removing ETFs that duplicate underlying holdings), two sectors stand apart: Materials and Energy.
    21 February 2026 Read more...
  • Stock Trends Mid-Quarter Review: How the Year-End 2025 Themes Are Performing in Q1 2026
    Stock Trends Mid-Quarter Review: How the Year-End 2025 Themes Are Performing in Q1 2026 Halfway through Q1 2026, the question is no longer theoretical: Did the year-end institutional momentum and ST-IM Alpha themes actually guide investors effectively? With the updated February 13, 2026 Stock Trends dataset now in hand, we can measure the outcome directly — not against headlines, but against trend structure, relative strength, and momentum persistence. The short answer: the framework largely held — but leadership rotated exactly where the model suggested it might.
    14 February 2026 Read more...
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