The method

Two rules. Neither of them is a hunch.

One engine hunts stocks about to be discovered. The other buys great companies the day everyone gives up on them. Both are mechanical: the machine finds the setup, sets the stop, and calls the exit. You decide whether to act.

Small Cap · the coil
quiet, ignored discovered
Large Cap · the capitulation
everyone sells we buy here
Two opposite shapes. One engine each.
Small Cap · ExplosiveLive

Eight conditions. All at once, or it isn't an alert.

Ignition learned its DNA from real explosions — the exact anatomy of stocks that ran hundreds of percent. Clearing seven of eight means nothing. The magic is the combination.

01 · Scarcity
Almost nothing to buy
So little tradable supply that real demand has nowhere to go but up.
02 · The coil
Wound tight
Compressed into a very particular shape: the stillness before the move.
03 · Neglect
Nobody's watching
The crowd and the funds haven't arrived. Already popular? Already too late.
04 · The launchpad
A rare setup
An uncommon structural condition that sits under these moves. What it is stays private.
05 · Signature
Looks like the winners
It has to score against the fingerprint of past explosions. Close isn't enough.
06–08 · Sealed
Three more, kept private
The factors that separate a true 8/8 from a near-miss. This is the edge, so we don't print it.
And then the selling, also mechanical
Cut the loss
−10%

Below your buy, the whole position is cut. No averaging down, ever.

Bank the win
35%

Sold into profit, by High Water. Once a run hands back 35% of its peak gain, the whole position is sold and the profit is banked — 15% once it has doubled.

Rotate
30d

The window closes anything still going nowhere. Capital rotates to the next setup.

There is no fixed profit target — a big run is allowed to keep running. That's why winners in the record show whatever their run was worth rather than a flat +100%. In the published book the median winner paid in 4 days, and the whole book's return took 4 months.

Large Cap · RelentlessLive · earning its record

Buy the flush. Not the dip.

A dip is a discount. A capitulation is a stampede for the exit in a company that will still be there in five years. The rule waits for the second one — only in businesses above $2B — and holds through the recovery.

01 · Universe
$2B and above
Established businesses only. No micro-caps, no shells, nothing that can quietly disappear.
02 · The flush
Sold past reason
The rule waits for capitulation — forced, indiscriminate selling — not an ordinary pullback.
03 · The stop
−15%, set on entry
Wider than the fast book because the thesis needs room. Still hard, still mechanical.
04 · The hold
Through the recovery
Fewer, larger, slower positions. Quality bought at the moment it goes on sale.
Where the book stands

Live since Aug 14 · every entry and exit published as it happens

Book equity$10,447 · +4.5% in 2 weeks
Positions1 open · 0 green
Risk−15% hard stop on every entry

Every entry, stop and exit published as it happens. The headline return figure is earned forward, exactly as Small Cap's was — a handful of trades is not yet a record.

Why this page shows you no headline return figure

Because a handful of closed trades is not a record. Re-running the rule including the companies that collapsed and never recovered — the ones a survivorship-biased backtest quietly drops — widened the worst peak-to-trough account drawdown from roughly 15% to about 67%.

A backtest that flatters a rule that badly is not evidence. So Large Cap runs live in public view — entries, stops and today's marks published as they happen — and prints a headline return only once it has a forward record worth the name, the same way Small Cap did. Some positions will go red before they work; the −15% stop is what caps that.

Side by side, so you can pick honestly.

Temperament Violent, days-long holds Patient, holds through recovery
What it hunts Low-float coils before explosion Capitulation in $2B+ companies
Hard stop −10% below entry −15% from entry
Typical winner Resolved in about 4 days Measured in months
Track record Live — $10,000 → $32,428 in 4 months, by the rules Live — 0 of 1 green in 2 weeks, no headline figure until the record is long enough
Suits you if You want asymmetric upside and can stomach frequent small losses You want quality at a discount and can wait out the drawdown

Risk disclaimer. Ignition is a stock-screening and alert tool for informational and educational purposes only. It is not financial, investment, or trading advice. Low-float, micro-cap and sub-$2 stocks are extremely volatile and high-risk, and the Large Cap rule deliberately buys companies that are already falling: you can lose some or all of your money. The −10% and −15% floors are resting orders, not guaranteed fills — a gap can take a position straight through either one. Past performance does not predict future results. Read the full risk disclosure.