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US Breakout Follow-Through · 16 October 2026

2026-10-16

Judging by the follow-through of this week's breakouts, the market reads Negative. Of the 30 stocks picked between Wednesday last week and Tuesday, 5 closed Friday more than 3% above their entry price — a 16.7% hit rate, below the 35% floor. That compares with 22.4% a week earlier (5.8 pp lower). In plain terms: about 1.7 in every 10 stocks picked earlier in the week finished Friday at least 3% above where they were picked.

ItemThis week
Selections (three models)30 records
Eligible after de-duplication30 stocks
Excluded (suspended / no price)0 stocks
Cleared the 3% bar5 stocks
Hit rate16.7%
Closed higher (return > 0)9 stocks (30.0%)
Median return-2.30%
Average return-4.09%
Best / worst+7.78% / -18.77%

The median deserves more attention than the average: a few very large winners or losers can move the average, while the median shows what happened to the stock in the middle of the list.

Hit rate, last 7 weeks: 0.0% → 19.2% → 21.0% → 32.4% → 23.1% → 22.4% → 16.7%. That is 6 weeks in a row as Negative.

About this indicator

The indicator tracks one specific thing: which stocks the system picked between Wednesday last week and Tuesday, and how many of them closed Friday more than 3% above their pick-day price. A high share means this week's fresh breakouts tended to follow through; a low share means they mostly faded.

Both prices are adjusted closes, so dividends and splits do not create fake drops. A stock picked more than once in the window counts once, using its earliest pick date. Suspended or unpriced records are left out of the denominator, and a return has to be strictly above 3% to count — exactly 3% does not. Because pick dates differ, holding periods this week run from 4 to 7 trading days.

The stocks counted come from three places: KDZD (pocket pivot), YXFZ (monthly reversal), and stocks making a confirmed VCP breakout, including those upgraded from the watch list on volume. The band describes what already happened: above 50% is positive, 35% to 50% neutral, below 35% negative; with fewer than 10 eligible stocks, no band is given.

This article is a statistical review of prices that have already happened. It does not forecast index direction and is not investment advice. Weekly samples are small, so the rate will move around; read several weeks together.

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