CAN SLIM Market Timing

0 · The Method

1 · Distribution Days — the threat

A down day (≥0.2%) on volume at or above the prior session = institutions selling. 4–5 active in 25 sessions = warning, 6+ = topping — tops form while price still looks fine. Stalling days (heavy-volume churn with little price progress near recent highs) count in; days expire after 25 sessions or a +5% rally. 4+ distribution/stall days in 8 sessions clusters an index; ≥2 of 3 indexes clustered = DD CLUSTER.

2 · MMTS — the trend traffic light

A GREEN/YELLOW/RED light from the 10D SMA + 21D EMA of the index close. GREEN = both lines rising and close ≥+1% above the 21D EMA (buys sanctioned); RED = the mirror image (defense); YELLOW = in between. The ±1% band is hysteresis — it kills whipsaw flips. MMTS red helps close the window; MMTS green is the "Green Day" re-open door.

3 · The Window of Opportunity — the outlook (Steve Swetz)

The WOO framework — its parameters, triggers, and re-open methodology — comes from CANSLIMer Steve Swetz; this page implements his rules verbatim. The window is tracked on the Nasdaq Composite (IXIC) only, and only IXIC's FTDs feed it. WOO open = confirmed uptrend, buying sanctioned. It closes only when three damage readings agree on one day: MMTS red + >4% off the peak + a new 20-day low. It re-opens on a depth-tiered ladder — the deeper the correction, the more proof required.

4 · Buy Day, Shakeout Day & Green Day — the other doors

A Green Day is MMTS green. A Buy Day proves recovery: up close over the last 3 days' highs off the correction low, upper-half close, above the 200D line, on strong volume (shallow corrections only; revocable after a failure). A Shakeout Buy Day proves a bear trap: price undercuts obvious support, flushes the weak holders, then closes back above the undercut bar's high — valid in any tier. Buy Day no longer opens the window for sessions on/after 2026-10-21; windows it opened before then keep their history.

5 · The Follow-Through Day — the validator

"No new bull market has ever started without one." A rally attempt (up close off the low) proves nothing on Days 1–3; the proof is a ≥+1.2% advance on heavier volume on Day 4+. An undercut of the attempt's low resets the count. Honest caveat: ~1 in 3 FTDs fails — a next-day drop under the FTD's low is the classic early tell. The same fingerprint outside a correction is logged as "FTD-quality" — context only, never re-opens the window.

6 · The Power Trend — the goal

Webby's grade of the market's strongest state — the uptrends where every dip gets bought and most of a cycle's gains are made. ON = low above the 21D EMA for 10 straight sessions + 21D EMA above a rising 50D SMA for 5, sealed by an up close. Deliberately hard to kill: OFF only when the 21D EMA crosses under the 50D SMA; a close under the 21D EMA just grades it UNDER PRESSURE (dial back, don't abandon). The hero strip's "N of 3 ON" count is the market's true health grade.

Lookback Explorer — 26 years of signals

Any window from January 2000 to today, any of the three indexes. Click a day (or use the date box) for the full "as-of" readout — what would this page have said that morning?

Shading: correction · PT ON · under pressure · markers: ▲ FTD · △ FTD-quality · ▼ distribution · ▼ stalling · click a day for its readout.

Appendix — parameters & rule changelog

Nothing here is discretionary: every threshold lives in one parameter block, every assumption carries a numbered tag (A1–A15), every rule change is dated. All three indexes run the identical rule set; the Window of Opportunity is tracked on IXIC only (A15).