The candlestick setups that held up when we went back and checked, and a free scanner that finds them for you.

Every carrier is breaking down. Their landlord just ran 19% in five sessions.

This is the morning issue of Sunday, October 11, 2026, and it covers the names with the best record for the days ahead, the levels that broke or held, the stocks speeding up and slowing down and the options radar.

Three candlestick patterns that held up when we went back and checked

We ran billions of data points on candlestick patterns and kept only the setups that beat the market's normal baseline. Three came out on top, and each one is a candle you already know plus one condition that does most of the work.

Christmas 2008, when SPY printed a setup three days running

In the worst stretch of 2008, SPY printed a gap-up harami on Christmas Eve, a quiet hammer on Boxing Day and another quiet hammer the Monday after. Each one finished the next five trading days more than 6% higher.

The harami that's settled before the opening bell

The gap-up harami is the candlestick setup you'll meet most often, and it's decided at the very first print of the day. With the gap it averaged +1.07% over the next five days on SPY since 2005 and QQQ since 2011. Without it, 0.13%.

The candle that looks like the worst day to buy

The inverted hammer records a rally that fell apart before the close. After a down week, on a busy day, it finished higher five trading days later 77.1% of the time on SPY since 2005 and QQQ since 2011.

The best hammers show up on a quiet day

A hammer after a down week, on a slow day, finished higher five trading days later 71.9% of the time on SPY since 2005 and QQQ since 2011. The same shape on a busy day averaged almost nothing.

The banks report into the worst tape on the board, and at one of them a beat has been the worse day

This is the morning issue of Friday, October 9, 2026, and it covers the earnings watchlist, the stocks speeding up and slowing down, the options radar and the most overbought and oversold names.

One mega-cap's options are the priciest they've been in a year, and the stock is barely moving

This is the morning issue of Thursday, October 8, 2026, and it covers the names with the best record for the days ahead, the levels that broke or held, the stocks speeding up and slowing down and the options radar.

A software name just went up 40% in a week. The overbought tag is the boring part.

This is the morning issue of Wednesday, October 7, 2026, and it covers the names with the best record for the days ahead, the levels that broke or held, the most overbought and oversold names and the options radar.

One name has owned Oct 7–13 since 2000, and the worst one cost 3.84%

This is the morning issue of Tuesday, October 6, 2026, and it covers the names with the best record for the days ahead, the stocks speeding up and slowing down, the most overbought and oversold names and the options radar.

A line of gold miners showed up for this week. The only name that qualified sells rotisserie chickens.

This is the morning issue of Monday, October 5, 2026, and it covers the levels that broke or held, the names with the best record for the days ahead, the stocks speeding up and slowing down and the most overbought and oversold names.

Defending that floor cost 5.26% in a week. Thursday it broke anyway.

This is the morning issue of Sunday, October 4, 2026, and it covers the levels that broke or held, the stocks speeding up and slowing down, the most overbought and oversold names and the options radar.