https://stock-compass.app/en/guides Practical guides on trading rules, discipline and backtesting. en Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://stock-compass.app/brand/logo-96.png https://stock-compass.app/en/guides 96 96 https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/sector-rotation-relative-strength https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/sector-rotation-relative-strength Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Strategy Relative strength is a stock or sector return minus its index over the same window, not RSI. This guide explains why breakouts in strong sectors start from better conditions, how to read a sector table (returns, breadth, new highs), how rotation shows up, and a worked example of a 6-position portfolio at 42% in one sector rebalanced under a 30% cap. https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/hold-through-earnings-or-sell https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/hold-through-earnings-or-sell Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Risk Earnings day is a different risk regime: the price gaps overnight and a stop-loss cannot protect you. Three rule-based approaches to earnings week, a worked sizing example (2% budget ÷ 8% historical move = 25% cap), and how to set a buy guard and exit rule with days_to_next_earnings. https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/moving-average-alignment-volume-buy-rule https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/moving-average-alignment-volume-buy-rule Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Strategy Bullish MA alignment (MA5 > MA20 > MA50) alone fires late and every day. Learn how a volume confirmation, a not-extended guard and a pre-written exit turn it into one complete, backtestable buy rule, with the full Stock Compass strategy JSON. https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/trading-journal-template https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/trading-journal-template Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Discipline Most trading journals die from too many fields and no review loop. Here is the minimum template: 9 fields per trade, the one column that matters most, a 5-question monthly review, and a worked example from open to close. https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/hong-kong-stock-trading-fees https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/hong-kong-stock-trading-fees Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Risk Every fee on a Hong Kong stock trade, who charges it, and whether it hits the buy, the sell or both: stamp duty, SFC and AFRC levies, HKEX trading fee, CCASS settlement, commission and platform fee. Includes a full 1,000-share round-trip example, break-even by order size, and how to enter your broker rates in Stock Compass. https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/adx-filter-false-breakouts https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/adx-filter-false-breakouts Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Strategy ADX measures trend strength, not direction, which makes it a filter rather than a trigger. Learn the reading bands, why the lag is acceptable, how to pair it with a 20-day breakout and a volume check, what it gets wrong, and a rule set you can backtest right away. https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/backtest-20-day-breakout-strategy https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/backtest-20-day-breakout-strategy Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Backtest A start-to-finish walkthrough of backtesting a 20-day new-high breakout: writing the true-breakout rules, why win rates are low, how to read win rate, profit factor, drawdown and expectancy, the effect of slippage and stop width, plus the full strategy JSON. https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/stock-signal-tools-compared https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/stock-signal-tools-compared Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Workflow Four tools retail investors use to decide what to trade each day, compared on scope, triggers, outcome tracking, rules-vs-discretion attribution and maintenance cost. Includes one breakout scenario run through all four, and when you don't need a rules engine at all. https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/daily-buy-sell-signals https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/daily-buy-sell-signals Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Workflow Most tools give you quotes but never answer "which name should I act on today." This explains how a signal checklist runs your rules across your watchlist, prioritizes exit > trim > add > buy > watch, when signals are computed, how T+1/T+5/T+10 scores and follow rate work, and why it's a scanner, not a command. https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/stop-chasing-the-market https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/stop-chasing-the-market Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Discipline Chasing rallies and dumping selloffs is the brain's default, not a character flaw. A worked example of what buying the +8% day actually costs, three ways to replace emotion with rules, a cooling rule that blocks over-extended entries, and how a trade journal makes every chase visible. https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/turn-logic-into-buy-rules https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/turn-logic-into-buy-rules Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Strategy "Enter once it holds the average," "buy the breakout" — these instincts translate into executable, backtestable rules. This guide covers moving averages, ADX and breakouts, a translation table from spoken logic to indicator thresholds, how AND/OR change signal counts, and why every buy rule needs a paired exit. https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/backtest-your-own-strategy https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/backtest-your-own-strategy Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Backtest "Feels like it works" isn't evidence. The four numbers a backtest should give you (win rate, profit factor, max drawdown, Sharpe), the expectancy formula with a worked example, lookahead and survivorship bias, sample size, out-of-sample checks, and how to run it without code. https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/position-sizing-risk-per-trade https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/position-sizing-risk-per-trade Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Risk What decides survival isn't what you buy but how much. This explains the "risk 1%–2% of capital per trade" rule, the shares = capital × risk% ÷ (entry − stop) formula, a worked HKD example, losing-streak math, and how sector concentration stacks risk. https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/take-profit-stop-loss-rules https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/take-profit-stop-loss-rules Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Risk Take-profit and stop-loss are two numbers you write before you buy, not a gut feeling. This covers fixed-percent, technical-level and ATR stops, fixed/trailing/scale-out targets, why a 5% stop is too tight for a 3%-ATR stock, and how to combine it all into one backtestable rule. https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/stop-loss-you-cant-execute https://stock-compass.app/en/guides/stop-loss-you-cant-execute Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Discipline You know you should cut losses but freeze when it's time. The problem isn't the method, it's execution. Here's the psychology behind it, a worked example, and how to turn stop-loss discipline into a daily checklist.