Stop guessing. Every session, a dual-discipline scanner grades volatility-contraction setups A through F and hands you the two numbers that matter — the exact level to watch and the exact level to walk away — in plain English. Before the breakout, not after.
Every issue opens with the regime dashboard and an ACTION queue of setups approaching their pivot. This is what Desk-tier readers see after every close.
The pattern is a volatility contraction — a base that tightens into a pivot — a concept popularized by trader Mark Minervini, screened here alongside growth-fundamentals criteria in the CAN SLIM tradition. Chart feeds show you what tightened. Screener platforms hand you a tool and wish you luck. This letter runs the whole workflow — regime, pattern, fundamentals, grade — and writes up the result in plain English.
| What you get | Chart-feed services | DIY screener platforms | The Coil Report |
|---|---|---|---|
| VCP pattern detection | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fundamental confirmation (CAN SLIM) | — | DIY | ✓ built in |
| Market-regime gate (when not to act) | — | — | ✓ leads every issue |
| A–F breakout quality grade | — | — | ✓ every setup |
| False-breakout suppression, with reasons | — | — | ✓ shown, not hidden |
| Plain-English read on each setup | — | — | ✓ the whole point |
| Walk-forward validated rules (no backfitting) | undisclosed | undisclosed | ✓ documented |
The same process runs after every close. Order matters — most services skip the first gate entirely.
Follow-through days, distribution counts, breadth, rally age. The regime decides how strict the screen runs and how aggressive the letter is allowed to be. In bad tape, the letter tells you to stand down — that restraint is the product.
Every session, 200 liquid large- and mid-cap names — the S&P 100, the Nasdaq 100, and a hand-picked list of high-momentum growth names — get screened first. Thin, illiquid stocks produce noisy patterns, so we trade breadth for quality. Every survivor must then clear the 8-point trend template and show a genuine volatility contraction. Then CAN SLIM fundamentals — earnings, sales, ROE, leadership — either confirm the setup or flag it as technical-only.
Survivors get a breakout-quality grade, a composite score, the pivot (entry) level, and a short plain-English read. Desk adds the per-setup invalidation level. False-breakout candidates get suppressed — and you see why.
Raw price action looks like noise. Flip to the Coil Report layer and the same base shows the three contractions, the pivot, and the volume dry-up the scanner is built to catch.
This is a constructed example built to show the format. It is not a current or past pick.
Price has carved three progressively tighter pullbacks against a flat ceiling near the pivot. Each swing gives up less ground than the last, and volume has thinned through the base — a healthy contraction. Earnings and sales growth clear the fundamental screen, which is what earns the A. A move through the pivot on expanding volume is the event the pattern is built to catch. Failure to hold the most recent low would void the setup.
The grade isn’t always an A — and not every setup ships. Three more constructed examples, across the range:
Three-contraction base, volume dried to 0.2x average, fundamentals confirmed. The clean case the pattern is built to catch.
Contraction present, but relative strength is lagging and no fundamental confirmation. Technical-only — a weaker case, graded accordingly.
Base looked clean, but earnings hit in three sessions. Suppressed with the reason shown — never sent as a live signal.
All three are constructed for illustration, not real tickers or real trade history. No dates, prices, or outcomes shown are actual — same rule as the sample above.
Every qualified setup is graded on trend strength, pattern quality, base structure, relative strength, and fundamentals — so you know where to put your attention first.
When a setup breaks its pivot on qualifying volume, it moves to the top of the issue as an ACTION signal. Daily-tier readers get pivot alerts the morning a break could trigger.
Every issue opens with the regime dashboard: distribution days, breadth, follow-through status, sector leaders and laggards. Context before candidates, always.
Setups that look right but carry a documented flaw — earnings gap ahead, extended past pivot, broken support — get suppressed with the reason shown. A confirmed breakout needs price above pivot and real volume behind it, not a drift on light trading — so on a day nothing confirms, you see exactly which names approached the line and by how much they missed. A quiet day reads as discipline, not silence.
A regime-adjusted framework in percentages: how the current tape scales maximum position size and stop discipline. A general risk ceiling, never individual advice.
Pivot levels are written to map onto your broker’s screener and conditional orders — plus per-setup invalidation levels on Desk — so acting on your own research takes minutes, not evenings.
No dashboards to configure. No screener filters to rebuild. The letter arrives after the close; by morning, you have a plan.
Risk-on, yellow light, or stand-down. One sentence tells you how aggressive to be today. No second-guessing.
Setups nearest their pivot sit at the top, sorted by TO GO percentage. Grades and reads tell you which ones deserve your attention.
Pivot and invalidation levels are written to drop straight into your broker. Enter your orders before the open and walk away.
Everything above is illustrative, so here is the opposite: an unedited excerpt from a recent letter — real names, real levels, real regime call. Pull up any of these charts and check the numbers yourself. (Dated July 24, 2026 — archived for verification.)
“The market’s still up but showing cracks. Translation: be patient. Watch the list below, but this isn’t a week to chase anything.”
Every issue leads with this. When the tape says sit still, the letter says so — that call comes before any name on the list.
Bank of America — watch above $62.12, now trading $62.05.
Merck — watch above $131.74, now trading $131.08.
AMGN — watch above $378.54, now trading $376.04.
U.S. Bancorp — watch above $64.84, now trading $63.98.
See what the Signals tier looks like in full — a different real, dated issue: read it end to end →
Cash held deliberately is risk management. Cash held by accident is missed opportunity. Our regime gate distinguishes the two. When conditions degrade, the report says “stand down” — and shows you exactly why each suppressed setup failed: earnings risk, broken support, volume confirmation missing. You stop overtrading in choppy markets not by willpower, but by evidence.
Every plan is the same general-circulation letter — the difference is how often and how deep, never who it’s tailored to.
Every rule in the Coil Report is walk-forward validated on historical data before it touches live signals. No black boxes. No curve-fitted parameters that worked last quarter and fail this one. Free screeners break without notice. The Coil Report breaks nothing silently — if a filter fails validation, it doesn’t ship.
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