📈 Welcome to APulliamTrades.com.
Many retail stock traders fail for similar reasons: they trade on emotion, chase hype and enter positions with little to no structural planning. They buy breakouts blindly only to get chopped to pieces by modern, high frequency algorithmic whipsaws.
This publication exists to fix that.
I am Al Pulliam. I’ve been an environmental health science professional for over 30 years. My background is rooted in math and science - disciplines driven by objective data, pattern recognition and rule based logic. I apply that same logic to the live financial markets.
🛡 The Methodology: Volatility Harvesting
Do not predict the future, and do not guess direction. Use quantitative concepts to harvest volatility until a trend opportunity emerges.
This active execution model is built on the shoulders of time-tested market legends, updated for today’s environment and accessible to the working professional.
The Entry: Inspired by Larry Connors’ classic Time, Price, Scale (TPS) model, we scale into value zones on pullbacks or very oversold conditions. However, entries are optimized using an expanding Fibonacci scale so the heaviest buys trigger at the deepest market discounts, radically lowering the average cost basis.
The Exit: Eliminate greed and hesitation by deploying J. Welles Wilder’s legendary Parabolic SAR as the primary trailing stop. As trend accelerates, the stop locks in profits automatically based on acceleration and time decay. Alternatively the 10-day lower Donchian Channel used by the famous Turtle Traders trained by Richard Dennis and chronicled by Michael Covel can be used as an initial stop until the Parabolic SAR reverses to the long side.
The Risk Rules: Capital preservation is a paramount. Every trade is governed by strict mathematical boundaries to eliminate risk of ruin.
📚 Why Share This System Openly?
It’s a fair question: If a systematic trading model works, why not just trade it in silence?
The answer come down to two clear motives: execution and growth.
First, this publication acts as a mechanism for systematic accountability. In science and math, a framework is only as good as it’s execution. This to sharpens execution and to improves the system.
Second, a clear profit motive. While this newsletter is currently free, the goal is to build an elite, highly valuable trading ecosystem that will help you be a profitable trader. You will learn structure, position sizing and risk discipline. System results improve on the 30-40% winning percentage of many trend following systems. Finally, you’ll start tracking return on capital employed (ROCE) and decide for yourself what systems produce.
Be CEO of your own money!
Stay tuned!
Al
Financial Disclaimer: Nothing in this newsletter is financial advice. While I make every trade that is covered, the trades are not recommendations. You must decide for yourself if this system or any trades within it make sense for your situation.
AI & Content Disclosure
I am an active trader, not a professional writer. I utilize artificial intelligence tools as part of my workflow to help organize, structure, and articulate research on trading mechanics and the Fibonacci Scale Systemâ„¢.
My primary mission is to transparently document a quantitative, rule-based trading system that I have designed and actively trade. AI assists in refining the presentation and clarity of this documentation and related posts. All trading rules, quantitative models, market interpretations, campaign decisions, and opinions expressed in this publication are entirely my own.
