A daily checklist that separates the screen from the entry

Three observables and a checklist

Daily equity analysis is framed as workable from three core observables: relative strength, associated volume, and absolute price change. Further overlays are treated as optional enhancements.

The decision habit combines technical and fundamental fields on the same daily chart rather than treating price structure as sufficient by itself.

A checklist process reads market state, filters names, and withholds execution until a stated condition is met. Entry, exit, and standing aside are one sequence.

Market-first review

The case opens with a market-state checklist: the industrial average at 2347, a 26-point advance on strong volume, no breakdown in the advance-decline line, a three-month rally, and hypothesized support near 2150.

That market read treats a long, well-confirmed advance as close to a short-term top and therefore as a reason not to buy immediately, even when no technical breakdown is visible.

Screening versus timing

Single-name screening is a staged filter: drop small-capitalization names of little institutional interest, keep those with improving relative strength, then keep those with dramatic volume change.

Relative strength is used as a ranking of how one equity is moving versus a comparison set over a defined lookback. It is a first-cut screen, not a standalone buy print. Volume confirmation requires a material change in activity before a price move counts as a candidate signal.

Names already showing strength or making new highs are parked as pullback candidates. The selection step is deliberately separated from the timing step.

Support as the entry condition

A later gate uses the fundamental fields on the daily chart unless a name is judged to be in play, in which case those fields may be set aside.

Support and resistance are taken from prior ranges, breakouts, and congestion and turned into falsifiable pullback-entry hypotheses.

After a six-month 60-70 range and an upside breakout, one name is assigned a pullback-entry hypothesis at new support near 70 rather than at the breakout print.

A second name is ranked on a sharper relative-strength upturn and group relative strength of 190, with planned entry at new support of 93-94 and prior resistance at 99-100.

A third name, treated as the session favorite, combined a sharp weekly relative-strength rise, volume not seen since the prior October, and a hypothesized pullback entry at support of 28-29.