Mark Minervini

Maintain discipline and prioritize investor education to support a repeatable trading approach.

Regularly review and refine process, charts, and decisions to improve performance.

Characterizes how Minervini treats stock selection, market timing, risk management, journaling, and trader education.

Part of the working synthesis emphasizing preparation, timing, management, and repeatability over mere prediction

Volatility indicates market risk; confirming low or acceptable volatility helps avoid being overexposed

Limits losses and preserves capital for repeatable opportunities

To manage drawdowns and protect capital while pursuing outsized returns.

To identify precise entry points and confirm leadership characteristics.

To ensure repeatability and avoid reliance on opaque models

Leaders are more likely to offer sustainable moves and clearer chart behavior

To find potential leadership and inefficiently priced opportunities for SEPA.

To protect capital and make gains sustainable

Learning from outcomes improves future decision-making and discipline

To refine the process and learn from past trades.

To maintain consistency in applying the trading process

Precise entries allow better risk control and repeatable execution

To reduce entry risk and know when a setup is invalidated.

To identify repeatable traits that predict future leaders