About
What is Enoch Capital Management?
Enoch Capital Management is a Catholic quantitative trading system. Everything we do is built on two foundations: Catholic Social Teaching and honest mathematics.
We screen every stock against USCCB guidelines before it ever enters the model. Companies involved in abortion, contraception, gambling, pornography, tobacco, predatory lending, or other grave harms are permanently excluded — no override, ever. This is not a feature. It is the foundation.
Beyond the screen, positions are sized using the Kelly criterion — a mathematical formula that tells you exactly how much to risk based on your edge. No gut feel. No arbitrary percentages. The math governs the discipline that most investors cannot maintain emotionally.
We are building this in public. The portfolio is open, the track record is live from day one, and the methodology is documented. If this system works, the proof will be here for anyone to verify.
The Website
What's on enochcap.com
Everything on this site is free. No account required. No email needed. Six pages — here is what each one does.
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Catholic Markets Daily
Opens every morning with the saint of the day, a scripture reading, and a teaching from Catholic Social Teaching. Below that: a live news feed you can filter by Catholic news or financial markets. Live market data — S&P 500, Nasdaq, Dow, Russell 2000, 10-Year Yield, VIX — runs across the top.
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Live Chart
Enter any stock ticker and see a real-time price chart with volume, moving averages, and sector rotation data. Powered by Yahoo Finance. No login. Look up any stock you're curious about — NVDA, AAPL, a small-cap you heard about — and see its current picture.
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Portfolio
Every paper trade the model generates is listed publicly — entry price, stop level, signal score, and Kelly-sized position. Paper trading means no real money yet. The purpose is to build an honest track record in public before any real capital is committed. You can follow every trade as it happens.
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Newsletters
Catholic Daily is a 3–5 minute morning read: saint, scripture, one market lens, one prayer. Always free. Enoch Weekly covers the week in markets, current positioning, and one philosophy or teaching essay. The full archive is here — read any issue without subscribing.
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Our Mission
The philosophy behind the system — why Catholic Social Teaching, why performance-only fees, why we chose geometric mathematics over the arithmetic averages Wall Street uses, and what the saints and Franciscan friar Luca Pacioli have to do with modern markets.
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Contact
Questions about the methodology, the Catholic screening, the newsletters, or anything else — reach us directly at
[email protected]. This is a one-person operation and every message gets a real reply.
The Model
How the Signal System Works
Every morning after the market closes, a scanner runs across more than 1,600 stocks — the S&P 500, S&P 400, S&P 600, plus ETFs and curated additions. Each stock passes through 7 gates. Only those that clear every gate enter the portfolio.
GATE 0
Catholic CST Screen
Every stock is tested against USCCB Socially Responsible Investment Guidelines. Hard exclusions — abortion, contraception, gambling, pornography, tobacco, predatory lending, and others — are applied with effective dates so historical backtests are also clean. FAIL = permanently removed. No override, ever.
GATE 1
Volume Surge ≥ 1.5× Average
Institutional funds can't hide their footprint. When smart money accumulates a position, volume spikes. We require volume at least 1.5× the 50-day average — a signature that large buyers are present, not just retail noise.
GATE 2
Relative Strength ≥ 65th Percentile
IBD research shows 95% of the biggest stock winners had RS ratings above 80 before their major moves. We require the stock to be outperforming at least 65% of the universe — rising strength, not recovering weakness.
GATE 3
Within 8% of 6-Month High
Jesse Livermore: buy strength, not weakness. A stock near its highs has absorbed its supply — sellers are exhausted. A stock 30% off its high still has overhead resistance to fight through. We buy leaders, not laggards.
GATE 4
Closing Strength ≥ 50%
Where a stock closes within its daily range tells the whole story. Closing in the upper half of the range means buyers dominated sellers all day. Closing weak — near the low — means sellers won. We require buyers to win.
GATE 5
Base Quality Score
The best breakouts come from tight, orderly consolidations — a "coil" of compressed energy before a release. Our base quality scorer measures tightness, volatility contraction, and the character of the consolidation. A sloppy base is a lower-conviction trade.
GATE 6
Energy Model — Trending State
A physics-inspired model that measures a stock's kinetic and potential energy. Only the "trending" state — validated against a random baseline with a +5.3 percentage point improvement in win rate — qualifies. We don't trade noise; we trade confirmed momentum.
SIGNAL
Unusual Options Activity + Insider Buying + Sector Rotation
Three confirmation signals add score boosts (not gates). Institutional options sweeps on out-of-the-money calls. Cluster insider buying (3+ insiders purchasing within 30 days). Sector rotation leadership — the same setup in a leading sector has dramatically different odds than one in a lagging sector.
SIZING
Kelly Position Sizing
Position size is not a guess. The Kelly formula (f* = (b × p − q) / b) calculates the mathematically optimal fraction of capital to risk per trade based on win rate and payoff ratio. We use half-Kelly — conservative, giving ~75% of maximum long-run growth with half the variance. Low-conviction setups get small sizes. High-conviction setups get more. A score below 75 gets zero — the math says there is no edge.
Where We're Going
The Roadmap
This system is being built and tested in public. Here is where we are and where we are going — honestly.
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Signal System Built & Backtested
7-gate scoring system, Kelly sizing, Catholic CST screen, VIX regime gate, earnings buffer, sector cap — all coded and backtested against 2019–2024 data. Survivorship bias corrected. Transaction costs modeled.
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Public Portfolio Live
Every paper trade published in real time at enochcap.com/portfolio. Track record building from day one, publicly.
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Morning Scanner Picks Published Daily
Each morning after market close, the scanner results — new setups, entries, stops, Kelly sizes — will be posted on the site. Anyone can see exactly what the model is seeing that day.
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Community Paper Trading with Alpaca
Alpaca Markets offers free paper trading accounts — real market data, simulated money, zero cost. Once tested, visitors will be able to open their own Alpaca paper account and trade alongside the model. No real money. Just proof.
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Premium Newsletter — Enoch Premium
Real-time scanner picks, daily portfolio updates, entries and exits as they happen, stop levels, and deep-dive analyses. $25/month or $250/year. Nothing goes behind the paywall until the track record justifies it.
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Live Trading & Fund Formation
Performance-only fee structure. Zero management fee. 20% of profits. 10% of that fee tithed to Catholic Charities, diocesan outreach, and Legatus scholarship funds — written into the operating agreement, not a marketing promise.
Access
Everything is Free
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No account. No email. No cost.
Every page on enochcap.com is free and open to anyone. Catholic Markets Daily, live charts, the portfolio, the newsletter archive, the mission — all of it. Catholic Daily will always be free. That is the ministry, not the marketing.
The only paid product — Enoch Premium — does not exist yet. It will not launch until the public track record justifies it. When it does, it will be $25/month. The Catholic Daily morning read will never go behind a paywall.
Questions
Get in Touch
Questions about the system, the Catholic screening methodology, the newsletters, or how to read the portfolio — email directly:
[email protected]
Enoch Capital Management · 2121 S. Broadway, #511, Denver CO 80210