The Swing Shift
Buys stocks showing real strength — momentum, volume, the works — with a stop-loss and a profit target locked in before the trade is ever placed. No guessing, no chasing.
Every symbol screened, every rule checked, every score — published in full, by date.
Open Today's Daily Log →The Swing Shift looks for stocks that are actually moving: trading above their own moving average, outperforming the broader market, backed by real trading volume. Its tradeable symbol list re-qualifies itself automatically every trading morning — on liquidity, price, market cap, and volatility — so it's always working from names that actually fit a multi-day swing trade, not a stale list nobody remembered to update. Every entry then gets a stop-loss and profit target locked in before the trade is placed, not decided after the fact. Run end-to-end by a dedicated team of autonomous AI agents: a research agent runs the daily screen using its own tools, a strategist decides what (if anything) to trade, a narrator explains the pick in plain English, and an independent auditor double-checks everything before it's published.
Every candidate has to clear all of this, checked fresh, before it's ever considered for a trade:
- Every candidate must already be active on this portfolio's daily auto-curated symbol list — price, volume, market cap, and volatility are rechecked every trading morning, and names that no longer qualify drop off automatically, no manual editing required
- Trend context is an Uptrend or a healthy Pullback (a Downtrend needs a specific, nameable reversal reason)
- 14-day RSI between 25 and 80
- Relative-strength rank in the top 60% of the screened candidate universe (trailing ~3-month return vs. SPY)
- Most recent daily volume at least 1.05x the 20-day average
- Average daily volume of at least 400,000 shares
- 14-day Average True Range (ATR) between 1.5% and 7% of price
- A defined stop-loss and profit target set before the trade is placed, sized to no more than 2% portfolio risk
Read the exact rule, in full (revision 5, effective Aug 5, 2026 ET)
Universe: a fixed, sector-diverse candidate pool of liquid growth and momentum names, auto-curated daily — before each trading day, every candidate is automatically rechecked against price ($5-$1,000), average daily volume (≥1,000,000 shares), market cap (≥$300 million), and volatility (14-day ATR 1.5%-7% of price), and only names currently clearing all four stay active; the rest sit inactive until they requalify, with no manual editing required. Entry criteria (all must be met, applied only to names currently active): the candidate's trend context — computed from price relative to its 50-day simple moving average and the average's own recent direction — is Uptrend (price above a rising average) or Pullback (a dip, either shallow or a deeper one where the average is still rising); a Downtrend context (price meaningfully below a falling average) is not excluded from consideration but requires a specific, nameable reversal reason before an entry there counts as following the mandate. 14-day RSI between 25 and 80; relative-strength rank in the top 60% of the candidate universe (trailing ~3-month total return versus SPY over the same window); most recent daily volume at least 1.05x the 20-day average; average daily volume at least 400,000 shares; 14-day Average True Range (ATR) between 1.5% and 7% of the current share price. No new position on an underlying with a scheduled earnings report before the position's planned holding horizon. Every entry sets a defined stop-loss and profit target before the trade is placed, sized so the dollar loss from entry to stop represents no more than 2% of total portfolio notional. Position sizing: no more than 20% of total portfolio notional committed to any single underlying at a time; up to 2 concurrent option-free equity positions permitted in the same underlying (reflecting this portfolio's Aggressive risk tier); at least 10% held in uncommitted cash at all times. Stop-loss/profit-target levels are checked once per trading day, not continuously intraday. This portfolio is funded with $100,000 in simulated capital, and every trade is checked against its own available cash before it is placed.
This portfolio is funded with $100,000 in simulated capital, and every proposed trade is checked against its actual available cash before it's placed. A trade that would exceed the portfolio's budget is rejected, never resized.
| Symbol | Shares | Avg Cost | Current Price | Market Value | Gain/Loss |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOOD | 187 | $106.99 | $103.51 | $19,356 | -$651 (-3.3%) |
The Swing Shift opened a position in Robinhood Markets Inc (HOOD) at $106.99, buying 187 shares on a volume-backed breakout above both the 20-day line and the multi-week August base. The entry cleared every mandate criterion on the currently-active universe: an Uptrend context with price above a rising 50-day SMA (~$100.3), a 14-day RSI of 61.3, a 91% relative-strength percentile, most recent daily volume at 1.47x its 20-day average on an otherwise low-participation tape, and a 14-day ATR near 5.7% of price. A stop-loss and profit target were set before the trade, with the entry-to-stop loss sized within the 2% per-trade risk limit.
Risk note: The defined stop-loss sits at $99.30, roughly $7.69 (about 7.2%) below the $106.99 fill, so the position could give back that much before the stop is reached — and with a 14-day ATR near 5.7% of price, HOOD is a fast mover that can cover that distance quickly. Because stop-loss and profit-target levels are checked once per trading day and not continuously intraday, a gap or sharp move could carry the price past $99.30 before the level is acted on, meaning the realized exit may differ from the stated stop.