Sort the regime before assigning MACD and stochastic jobs

How the watchlist was sorted

The archive describes a watchlist-level screen that grouped holdings by current technical states. Those states included stochastic-oversold readings and record price highs.

Two-color bars above each chart sorted names into three bins: mostly rising, mostly falling, or mixed sideways oscillation. In this workflow those strips are the regime bars.

Trend job and timing job

MACD was assigned to identify uptrend or downtrend tendency. The stochastic oscillator was assigned to mark timing points inside that trend. Both roles were treated as necessary.

MACD is used here to express whether a name tends to rise or fall, not to time the next tick. The stochastic oscillator is used here to mark candidate timing points after a trend or range has already been accepted.

When a moving average is a test

The working moving averages were the 13-day and 50-day. The 200-day was described as a last-stand line for longer-horizon holders.

Names with mixed regime bars were said to lack a stable relationship with the 13-day or 50-day averages and to cross them frequently. That moving-average relationship is the question of whether price repeatedly tests and holds a chosen average, or crosses it so often that the average is not a useful gate.

A moving average is treated as a test level only when price has a history of respecting it instead of slicing through it.

The three-input decision frame

The stated decision frame required three concurrent inputs: technical structure, business fundamentals, and community sentiment.

That three-input decision frame is a checklist. It asks for chart structure, business facts, and whether other participants expressed interest before a name is acted on.

Short mixed bars and a tight range

When regime bars stayed short and mixed and price remained between about 9 and 13, the process favored oscillator readings plus support and resistance over a multi-month hold.

Editorial reading: a mixed, unstable regime is a reason to keep the stochastic oscillator on a timing job and to withhold a longer hold that needs a stable trend.

Record-price breakouts and pullback candidates

A market-wide filter isolated uptrends that were currently oversold as pullback candidates. A pullback candidate is an already rising name that has retreated far enough for an oversold oscillator reading to be treated as a testable entry hypothesis.

A separate list flagged 52-week highs that had not printed in the prior six months. That second list is the set of record-price breakouts in this workflow.

After a first record-price breakout, the described habit was to wait for an oversold pullback rather than act immediately, especially while the broader tape was flat.