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Journaling and Analyzing stocks with a web app certainly makes things easier

Over the last year, I’ve been taking low-float momentum trades pretty seriously. I keep a journal, but I never actually sat down to look at the numbers across all my plays until this weekend. I logged about 35 setups that fit my usual criteria (clean break, volume, 9-EMA bounce, sub-10M float). I didn't include the ones where I fumbled or hesitated, just the ones I actually executed.

I got curious and threw together a little HTML dashboard to map everything out – hold times, entry times, floats, sectors. Just a static chart.js thing, nothing fancy. I wanted to see if there were any obvious patterns, or if I was just chasing noise.

A few things that stood out to me, for whatever it's worth:

* That 10:00-10:30 AM window kept showing up in the biggest gainers. I don’t know if it’s the pre-market settle, the first flush, or just liquidity kicking in, but it happened enough times that I’m paying attention to it now.
* Healthcare pops up all the time. Not surprised by the count, but the magnitude was actually larger than I expected compared to tech or industrials.
* Float size matters, but not in the way I thought. Sub-1M made some crazy runs, but the 2-4M range actually felt more predictable. Fewer sudden rug-pulls.
* Hold times are all over the place. Some ran for 7 minutes, some for 3 hours. I noticed the really big ones (500%+) averaged around 60-90 minutes. The quick flips are fun but often left money on the table.
* "All-time high" breaks outperformed "200-DMA" breaks on average, but the DMA breaks were way easier to spot early. Probably a good trade-off.

I’m not trying to say I cracked the code – honestly, a few of those trades were just pure luck catching the wave. But looking at it this way made me realize I tend to exit too early in the first hour.

Does anyone else track their breakout trades this granularly? What metrics do you actually pay attention to? I’m still trying to figure out which ones are actually worth tracking vs. which are just distraction.

Also, if anyone wants the dashboard template (it's just a single HTML file, works offline), happy to share it. No strings, no sign-ups – literally just a file I built for myself.

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