The record · Both books · Losses included
Judge the record, not a résumé.
No screenshots, no hindsight, no highlight reel. One virtual book takes every Small Cap alert and sells by the rules — never at the top. The losers are printed beside the winners, because a record you have to take on faith is not a record.
The figure above is the ROTATING book: one $10,000 account, at most three positions at a time, capital recycled into the next alert on every exit. Held flat instead, the same $10,000 split once across all alerts and never reused, the same trades under the same rules come to . Same trades, same rules, different accounting: the gap is the recycling, not a bigger edge.
This simulation pushes $10,000 through every alert the scanner sent: the ones that doubled, the ones that hit the −10% stop, and the ones that expired flat. Nothing removed, nothing hindsight-picked. One line, the one you could actually have taken: the rules-based sell (High Water), out at −10%, or in full once a run hands back 35% of its peak profit (15% once doubled), against the S&P 500.
Ignition portfolio vs. S&P 500
One $10,000 book per product, at most three positions at a time, capital rotating on every exit. Small Cap is the live record: real alert prices, sold by the rules (out at −10%, or in full once a run gives back 35% of its peak profit, 15% once doubled, 30-day window). Losing trades are included. Large Cap runs the Deep Stack rule: a $2B+ name already sold off hard is bought only when the fall deepens again on the 5-minute chart the next session, and if that setup never appears no trade is taken. Its own book, its own rules (a −15% stop from the entry, a different exit trigger) and its line is drawn from that book's published equity: a point at inception, a step at each realised exit, and today's mark. It holds flat between those points because the book keeps no daily history and nothing is interpolated — a flat stretch means no trade has closed, not that nothing is running. No modelled or backtested return is ever drawn for it. It publishes no benchmark of its own, so the S&P line below belongs to the small-cap dollars. S&P 500 shown as benchmark estimate (+3.0% over the period). Simulated, not a live brokerage account: spreads, slippage and fees would all reduce it.
Every trade: what closed, and what is open right now.
Every trade: what closed, and what is open right now. This is the whole record, not a highlight reel: the 25 alerts that ran past +100%, alongside every one that hit the −10% stop or closed out its 30-day window at a loss. The Exited at column shows what each trade actually returned, so a stop reads as the loss it was. These are the same trades the chart above is built from, which is why the curve and this table always agree. Alert prices are exact for tracked names and the real market close on the alert date for the rest. Tip click any column header to sort.
Positions still running are listed too, marked Open. Both books, from the moment a position is bought rather than the day it closes. An open row shows what the position is worth at its latest quote and says unrealized on the row, because a mark is not a result: it can still become anything, including a −10% stop. Nothing in the live group counts toward the win rate, the average result, or any return figure on this page — those divide by closed trades only, and always will.
The rule: one buy, one sell. Every position is bought on the alert and sold in full when either trigger fires: it drops 10% below the buy price, or it has run up and then gives back 35% of its peak profit (15% once doubled). There is no fixed profit target, which is why winners here show whatever their run was actually worth rather than a flat +100%: a name that peaked +600% books far more than one that peaked +120%. The old rule sold everything at +100% and capped every large run at the same number.
| Book | Ticker | Date alerted | Alert price | Peak price | Peak gain | Exited at | Holding period | Status | Notes |
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Holding period = time from the alert to the exit, shown in minutes, hours or days depending on how long the position actually ran. A * means the recorded run isn't reproducible in the split-adjusted daily series, common on reverse-split micro-caps, so we show the day it hit its real post-alert high instead. Where no exact exit time was recorded, the period is shown in whole days rather than invented to the hour.
Simple, disciplined, transparent.
01 Auto-buy every alert
The moment a stock clears all eight conditions, the sim buys it at the alert price: $2,000 each, at most three held at once, no picking favourites. Freed capital rotates straight into the next alert.
02 Sell by the rules
A winner is never sold at a fixed target: it rides until it hands back 35% of its peak profit, or 15% once it has doubled, then the whole position is sold. That is what lets a big run stay big. Losers are cut at −10%. A pick that goes nowhere for 21 days is closed at market. The same discipline, every position.
03 The losers stay in
The curves above carry every alert: the doubles, the −10% stops, and the expired windows. The table below lists the confirmed +100% winners; your live open positions, up and down, are on the member dashboard.
04 Compare to the market
The same dollars are tracked against the S&P 500 over the identical window, so you see the edge in plain dollars.
See the next alert the moment it fires.
Everything above is what the scanner already caught: 25 alerts have doubled. The next one goes out in real time.
Risk disclaimer. This virtual portfolio is a rules-based illustration built from the scanner's real alert and peak prices: it is not a real trading account, not a tick-by-tick backtest, and not financial advice. What's in and what's out the equity curves include every tracked alert, winners, −10% stops and expired windows alike, under these rules; the table below lists every closed trade, winners and losers, and says which is which. The peak line marks each pick at its high-water mark: a ceiling nobody reliably sells at, shown for scale, not as an achievable result. Real results would differ due to slippage, liquidity (these are thin, low-float stocks), fees, taxes, and timing: you may not be able to buy or sell at these prices. The S&P 500 figure shown is an approximate, editable benchmark. Past performance does not predict future results, and no profit or outcome is guaranteed. You can lose some or all of your money. Ignition Alerts is not a registered investment adviser or broker-dealer, this is not personalized advice or a recommendation or solicitation, and every buy or sell decision is solely your own, made at your own risk and discretion: do your own research and consult a licensed professional. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Ignition Alerts and its operators are not liable for any losses arising from your use of, or reliance on, this information, which is provided “as is” without warranties, and you agree to release and hold them harmless. See the full Risk Disclosure.
The Large Cap record is being earned right now.
Everything above is the small-cap scanner. Ignition Large Cap — the capitulation rule for $2B+ companies — shares that same table, in the same columns, with the same losers included. Since 2026-08-21 its open positions are published there as they are bought, marked at their live price and labelled unrealized, rather than appearing only once they close, and its closed trades join the table as they close — losers included. That is a young book, not a track record: no headline return figure for Large Cap is published anywhere on this site until it has a forward record worth the name — that number is earned forward.
What we will publish
Every Large Cap position: entry, stop, exit, holding period and result — and, while it is still running, what it is marked at today. Stopped-out and expired positions counted the same way winners are, sortable, on the same page as the small-cap book.
What we will not publish
Backtested returns dressed up as a record. We measured how badly historical data flatters this kind of rule: including companies that collapsed and never recovered widened the worst account drawdown from about 15% to about 67%. That is why no return figure for Large Cap appears anywhere on this site yet.
Where it stands
Large Cap is live and on sale now — its open positions publish in the table above as they are bought, marked to the minute, and its closed trades join the record as they close. The headline return figure appears once the book has a forward record worth the name, not on the strength of one result. Get Large Cap.