Buys stocks already in a confirmed uptrend. Skips the sideways mess.
Trend / Stages · Any · Weekly MTF
Stage analysis splits a stock's life into four phases: building a base, advancing, topping out and declining. Most of the money is made in the advancing phase, called Stage 2, when the uptrend is already confirmed and buyers are clearly in charge. Ascent only rides stocks once that stage is confirmed, buying strength that is already moving instead of guessing at a bottom. The advantage is that these phases tend to last once they start, while the choppy stretch before a trend proves itself is where most traders lose.
Ascent scans its list of stocks every week and sorts each one into one of the four stages. Confirmed Stage 2 names are then split into three tiers of conviction, based on how clean the trend is and how far it has already run. When a stock falls out of Stage 2, Ascent steps aside instead of forcing a trade. The exact rules that decide a stage ship with the code.
Every week, Ascent scans the full list of 50 stocks and sorts each one into base, uptrend (Stage 2), topping or decline. It reads the shape of the chart and the trend together, not just the latest price, to find stocks that have already proven they are rising.
Not every strong-looking stock qualifies. Ascent only accepts a name once Stage 2 is confirmed, then ranks it into one of three tiers. Stocks still basing, topping or breaking down are left alone. The call is simple: confirmed and ranked, or not on the list.
Once a stock is in, Ascent holds it as long as the uptrend stage holds, not for a fixed number of days. Because it reads weekly charts, positions move with the trend rather than the day's noise. When the stage breaks, the name comes off the list.
Ascent fits people who check their positions once a week rather than all day and want to ride established uptrends in any market instead of trying to call the bottom.
| Market stages | 4 |
| Stage-2 tiers | 3 |
Test window and data: 50 stocks, weekly price bars
Cost model: Commission $0.62/contract (futures) · 0.10%/trade (equities) · slippage 1 tick (a small price slip assumed on every fill) · pyramiding 0 (never adds to an open position) · bar-close calc only (every decision is made at the close of a bar) · fixed size (the same position size on every trade)
Verification: Checked twice: the same rules were run separately on TradingView and in Python, and both runs had to agree. The public certificate carries the record hash, a digital fingerprint that shows the numbers have not been altered since.
These are backtested results, meaning the rules were run on past price data. They are historical and hypothetical, they include the modeled costs above, and they do not guarantee future performance.
The share of trades that made money.
Dollars won for every dollar lost. Above 1.0 means the system made money.
The worst drop from a peak before recovering.
The total result after the modeled costs.
You receive the complete strategy as code that is yours to keep. The exact rules and settings are inside those files; this page only explains the idea.
Golden Hour tells you whether the broad stock market's long-term trend has turned up, and Ascent finds the individual stocks already moving inside that trend. A slow filter paired with a quicker entry.