Julian Komar – Growth Traders Toolbox

• US stocks only, medium term approach – no day trading! Perfect for part-time traders.
• Risk management: How to calculate the right position size and manage single trade and portfolio risk.
• Using stock screeners: Be consistent in your stock selection and reduce work.
• Fundamental & technical analysis: Find high potential stocks which can move strongly.
• Chart & volume patterns: Learn to read supply & demand in the chart.
• 300 analyzed stock charts as example to train your chart analysis skills! Will be extended to 600 charts soon …

Content (will be extended regularly)

I will add more content regularly. Next topics: Example videos in TradingView / MarketSmith, Trading Psychology and Mindset …

Welcome

• How to use the video course
• Golden rules
• Reading list stocks and trading

Risk Management

• Intro
• Goal of risk management
• Knowledge: What is a draw down?
• The 4 levels of risk management
• Knowledge: What does 1% risk mean?
• What is portfolio risk?
• Build up portfolio risk slowly
• Limit your portfolio risk to 5%
• How many positions should a portfolio have?
• Using margin
• Learnings about portfolio risk management
• What is cluster risk?
• Capital concentration vs. diversification
• Cluster risks in your portfolio
• Example: Portfolio cluster risks
• Learnings about cluster risk management
• What is information risk?
• 3 types of information risk
• Take a 20% / 30% gap into account
• Limit your position size
• Example: Reduce position size before earnings
• Avoid news driven or story stocks
• Learnings about information risk management
• What is single trade risk?
• Risking 1% of your trading capital is enough
• Knowledge: What is stop loss distance?
• Example: The position size depends on the stop loss distance
• How to calculate the position size
• Knowledge: What is R in trading?
• Always keep the risk at the same amount
• 3 Examples of position sizing
• Automatic risk adjustment
• Learnings about single trade risk management
• Risk management quiz
• Risk Management Plan

Stock Selection

• Stock Selection Checklist
• Intro
• Goal of stock selection
• Become a specialist in a small trading niche
• The stocks we want to find
• Knowledge: What are institutions?
• Look for institutional quality stocks
• Learnings about institutional quality stocks
• Strong technicals is a must
• Knowledge: What is relative strength?
• Relative strength shows you the leaders
• Only buy stocks in an uptrend
• Exponential moving averages
• Look for new all-time highs
• Stocks that doubled can double again
• Look for multiple weeks trading bases
• Interpret the volume behavior
• Learnings about strong technicals
• Outstanding sales (and EPS) growth
• Strong sales growth is a must
• EPS is a must for mature companies
• Avoid negative EPS
• Strong EPS estimates are a big plus
• Stocks matching all fundamental criteria
• Young companies must have a higher growth
• Examples of young companies with a higher growth
• Learnings about fundamental criteria
• Using stock screeners
• 2 different screener software
• MarketSmith: High RS screener
• MarketSmith: High RS screener example
• MarketSmith: IPO 1 year screener
• MarketSmith: IPO 1 year screener example
• MarketSmith: IPO 3 year screener
• MarketSmith: IPO 3 year screener example
• MarketSmith: Weekly unusual volume screener
• MarketSmith: Weekly unusual volume screener example
• MarketSmith: Topic screener
• MarketSmith: Topic screener example
• MarketSmith: Unusual volume screener
• MarketSmith: Unusual volume screener example
• MarketSmith: New 52 week highs screener
• MarketSmith: New 52 week highs screener
• MarketSmith: >10% week performance screener
• MarketSmith: >10% week performance screener example
• MarketSmith: >90 RS screener
• MarketSmith: >90 RS screener example
• MarketSmith: >100% year performance screener
• MarketSmith: >100% year performance screener example
• MarketSmith: EPS >50% screener
• MarketSmith: EPS >50% screener example
• MarketSmith: New RS high screener
• MarketSmith: New RS high screener example
• MarketSmith: Big EPS estimate screener
• MarketSmith: Big EPS estimate screener example
• FinViz: EPS estimate >30% screener
• FinViz: EPS estimate >30% screener example
• FinViz: Strongest stocks screener
• FinViz: Strongest stocks screener example
• FinViz: >20 sales growth screener
• FinViz: >20 sales growth screener example
• FinViz: >100% performance over 12 months screener
• FinViz: >100% performance over 12 months screener example
• FinViz: >10% performance last week screener
• FinViz: >10% performance last week screener example
• FinViz: High volume today screener
• FinViz: High volume today screener example
• FinViz: New 52 week high screener
• FinViz: New 52 week high screener example
• FinViz: IPO last year screener
• FinViz: IPO last year screener example
• Only put the best candidates on your watchlist
• Tips to go through your screener
• Daily and weekend routine
• Go through sectors and industries
• Go through sectors and industries – Example
• Comparing two stocks
• Sister stocks
• Learnings about stock screeners
• Require a disruptive theme or products
• Update vs. innovation vs. disruption
• Company lifecycle
• Mid cap companies turning into large cap companies
• Mid cap companies turning into large cap companies – Example
• Future growth potential is important
• Disruptive companies gain market share
• Growth acceleration through events
• How to do research about companies
• How to do manual research for stocks
• Best sources for research
• Price is more important than any fundamentals or story
• Major events and technology changes
• Global technology changes
• Example: Railways in the 19th century
• Cycle for disruptive and innovative themes
• Example 1: Electric vehicles
• Example 2: 5G networks
• Example 3: Telehealth
• Example 4: Cloud software
• Example 5: Semiconductors
• Example 6: E-commerce
• New companies take over the leadership
• Learnings about disruptive themes and products
• Product or service focused companies
• Focused vs. wide range of products companies
• How growth companies scale sales and profits
• Scaling sales and profits – focused vs. wide range of products companies
• Market dominance is an important factor
• Entrepreneurial companies
• Important facts about entrepreneurial companies
• Examples – Introduction
• Example 1: AMD
• Example 2: NVDA
• Example 3: TDOC
• Example 4: AAPL from 2001
• Example 5: TWST
• Example 6: TTD
• Example 7: ETSY
• Example 8: FB (early years)
• Example 9: CSCO (early years)
• Example 10: COUP
• Example 11: SHOP
• Example 12: EBAY (early years)
• Example 13: WMT (early years)
• Example 14: AAXN / TASR
• Example 15: ADBE
• Example 16: SE
• Example 17: VRSN
• Example 18: FIVN
• Learnings about product focused, entrepreneurial companies
• Extra lesson: From macro to micro view
• Stock selection quiz

Watchlist management

• Tools you will learn about
• My own experience
• Limits help to focus and maintain consistency
• 2 watchlists: Main and focus
• Main watchlist
• Weekend routine
• Examples
• Get a feeling for your niche by looking at the daily changes
• From main to focus watchlist
• List to the feedback from your watchlist
• Learnings
• Focused watchlist
• Daily routine
• Examples
• Using alerts
• Learnings
• Theme watchlists

Charts

• Tools you will learn about
• My own experience
• Getting a first impression of a stock by looking at charts
• Chart reading is a craft and art
• Start every analysis with the chart
• Weekly and daily charts
• Indicators in the charts
• Weekly charts tune out the noise
• Learnings
• What makes a good technical chart picture?
• Staircase effect
• Support at EMA 13 and EMA 40
• Shakeouts
• Tight trading bases
• Clean and harmonic price action
• Relative Strength to the S&P 500
• Volatility contraction before breakout
• Learnings
• Accumulation and distribution in the daily chart
• Accumulation and distribution in the weekly chart
• Volume increase / decrease in the daily chart
• Volume increase / decrease in the weekly chart
• Monster volume or volume spikes in the daily chart
• Exhaustion on monster volume or volume spikes
• Monster volume as a sign for a start or end of a trend
• Monster volume or volume spikes in the weekly chart
• Learnings
• Stocks have an own personality
• Examples
• Learnings
• Chart patterns
• Cup and handle
• Knowledge: Tight vs. wide and loose consolidations
• Double bottom
• Flat base
• Consolidation
• Volatility Contraction Pattern (VCP)
• IPO base (short)
• IPO base (long)
• Chart patterns develop in a correction
• All chart pattern have something in common
• Chart patterns are created by the ebb and flood of demand and supply
• Chart patterns are created by the ebb and flood of demand and supply (example)
• Institutions must sell into the rally
• Learnings
• Institutional support at moving averages
• Pullbacks vs. corrections
• Pullbacks can turn into chart patterns
• Institutional support at moving averages (EMA 21 and EMA 65)
• Institutional support at moving averages (EMA 200)
• Institutional support at price levels
• Learnings
• Large gap ups
• Breakaway gap
• Knowledge: Overhead resistance
• Avoid buying gaps in a base
• Runaway gap
• Exhaustion gap
• Learnings

Markets

• Tools you will learn about
• My own experience
• Don’t trade all the time – trade in the right market!
• Trading niche is more important than the indices
• Indices, stocks and indicators are feedback tools
• Stock market vs. indices
• Most stocks follow the indices
• Learnings
• Helpful market indicators
• Distance to moving average 200
• How to add the Percentage Distance indicator to TradingView
• New highs / new lows
• How to add the new highs and new lows indicator to TradingView
• How to add percent stocks above 50 and 200 day moving average to your TradingView chart
• ADRN indicator
• Learnings
• Martz Market Trend System (MMTS)
• How to add the MMTS to TradingView
• Recognize the market environment in real-time
• The right market environment
• The wrong market environment
• Exhaustion
• Difficult market environment
• Bear markets
• Your trading statistics change with the market environment
• Learnings
• How to recognize a potential reversal in the stock market
• Time your entries and exits
• Monitor every rally attempt to spot a potential reversal
• Follow through days
• When it’s time to buy stocks again
• Additional indicators to spot a potential reversal
• A bear market is different from a pullback
• Learnings
• Extra lesson: How to add the Up volume and Down volume indicator to TradingView
• Extra lesson: Seasonality in the stock market

Buying and Selling

• Checklist for stock entry
• Tools you will learn about
• Checklist for stock exit
• My own experience with buying
• 99% of buying right is preparation
• Select only the best stocks
• Technicals are more important than fundamentals
• Buying a pullack
• Further tips on buying a pullback
• Learnings
• Buying a breakout
• Buying a cheater breakout
• Learnings
• Buying on a gap up
• Intraday gap up fine tuning
• Learnings
• Intraday volume calculation
• Further tips on intraday volume calculation
• Start every position small and buy in multiple steps
• Adding to your position
• Identify the best trades and sell or reduce mediocre trades
• Follow up buy
• Pyramiding your winners
• Trading around a core position
• Learnings
• My own experience with selling
• Selling a stock properly means following rules
• Cutting losses short and letting profits run
• Hitting some home runs in a year
• Stop loss keeps the losers small
• Break out stop
• Break-even stop
• Time stop
• Re-enter quickly if you get stopped out by accident
• Getting stopped out on a gap down
• Learnings
• Letting your profits run with trailing stops
• Look for the dominant moving average
• Selling a stock with a trailing stop
• Learnings
• Selling a stock into strength
• Learnings
• The “red zone rule”
• Learnings

Additional lessons

• I will add more videos here in future
• Sep 29, 2021 – Markets start to correct.
• Sep 30, 2021 – Winning stocks in a bad market
• Oct 04, 2021 – From market to sector
• Oct 06, 2021 – Looking for signs of a market turnaround
• Oct 07, 2021 – ABC correction pattern
• Oct 08, 2021 – Doing research about $APP AppLovin
• Oct 12, 2021 – Monitor your niche!
• Oct, 14 2021 – Follow through day in the NASDAQ
• Oct, 17 2021 – Using Average True Range (ATR) for stop loss and trailing stop
• Oct, 20 2021 – Analysis of market turnaround
• Oct, 26 2021 – How I handle stocks with a weak breakout
• Oct 27, 2021 – Observing the market. Solar stocks are in the top list
• Oct 27, 2021 – What do do if a stock explodes to the upside without you + Shakeout patterns
• Oct 27, 2021 – $SNAP – Price is more important than fundamentals
• Nov 02, 2021 – Observing your niche
• Nov 05, 2021 – $UPST lesson of character change
• Nov 07, 2021 – Looking at the market
• Nov 10, 2021 – Observe the reaction to earning reports in your niche
• Nov 11, 2021 – Stocks with increasing volatility is a sign to wait
• Nov 20, 2021 – Shakeouts and Undercut & Reversals (U&R)
• Nov 25, 2021 – Market and portfolio comment
• Dec 03, 2021 – Risk Management and lessons from the correction
• Dec 08, 2021 – Waiting for confirmation to start buying again
• Dec 13, 2021 – Notice rotation from growth to value in the stock market
• Dec 17, 2021 – Buying first test positions which failed
• Dec 30, 2021 – Finding strong sectors / industries. Example: Semiconductors.
• Jan 10, 2021 – Look at the market and short-term trades
• Jan 17, 2021 – Sell failed breakouts early
• Feb 15, 2022 – 50 / 80 rule
• Trading cyclical stocks instead of growth stocks
• May 25, 2022 – Look at the market, bear market & trading other markets
• June 28, 2022 – Look at the market: How I assess the indices and current themes on the watchlist
• August 16, 2022 – What I look for when I go through a FinViz screener
• September 26, 2022 – 10 tips for part time traders
• December 12, 2022 – Market trend and bottoms in the S&P 500
• February 13, 2023 – Look at the market: New uptrend with leading semiconductor stocks
• How to add the MMTS as an overlay behind your chart
• 360° Stock Selection Checklist
• October 10, 2023 – Deep Dive MMTS Indicator

The Chart Book

• How to use The Chartbook
• Chartbook A – 1
• Chartbook A – 2
• Chartbook B
• Chartbook C – 1
• Chartbook C – 2
• Chartbook C – 3
• Chartbook D
• Chartbook E
• Chartbook F
• Chartbook G – 1
• Chartbook G – 2
• Chartbook H
• Chartbook I
• Chartbook J
• Chartbook L
• Chartbook M to Z (coming soon)

Additional downloads

• Important information
• My personal 25 lessons of the stock market ebook
• Does CANSLIM still work? From Boston IBD Meetup
• “Know HOW to Hold ‘Em” Ajay G. Jani, CMT (Chartered Market Technician)
• AMN Healthcare Svcs (AHS) Base Reading
• Ambarella Inc. (AMBA) Picking, Managing and Selling The Climax Top
• Basic Simple Sell Rules CANSLIM
• Short Selling Principle & Techniques (Gil Morales / Chris Kacher)
• CAN SLIM Basics Review Model Stock (WB)
• GMCR Model Stock Review
• Hansens Natural Model Stock Review
• Margin Use Considerations For CANSLIM Investing
• Maximize Gain, Minimize Loss, Keep Ego Out – Simply Doing The Best We Can
• STUDY OF TRUE MARKET LEADERS
• Short Selling By Debora O’Flynn
• Sketchers Model Stock Review
• Square Climax Top
• Upper Channel Line Sell Signal
• Amgen Model Book Stock 1990 to 1992
• CAN SLIM Stock Portfolio Example Summer 2012 Rally
• Ride in the Cockpit with the O’Neil Disciples
• MoKa – Market Direction Model
• VoSi Conference (Gil Morales / Chris Kacher)
• IBD Americas Greatest Opportunities Collection
• Buying IPOs

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