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We screen every stock against USCCB Catholic guidelines before the math ever runs. No override. Ever.

That's the foundation of Enoch Capital Management — a Catholic quantitative trading system built on Catholic Social Teaching and geometric mathematics.

The site is live today at enochcap.com. Here's what's there:

• Catholic Markets Daily — opens every morning with the saint of the day, a scripture reading, a teaching from Catholic Social Teaching, and a live news feed you can filter by faith or markets
• Live Chart — look up any ticker, real-time, no account required
• Portfolio — every paper trade published openly. Entry price, stop level, signal score, Kelly size. All of it.
• Newsletter archive — Catholic Daily and Enoch Weekly, free to read

The track record is young. It starts in public. That's the only way to build trust.

Where it's going: the model runs a scanner each morning that scores stocks through 7 gates — volume surge, relative strength, base quality, energy state, Catholic screening — and sizes every position using the Kelly formula. Those picks go on the site daily. Anyone can follow along.

Paper trading first. Always. No real money until the public record justifies it.

Most traders lose money for the same reason. Not because their analysis is wrong. Not because they picked the wrong stocks. Because they cannot follow their own rules when real money is on the line.

I know this firsthand. In 2003 I founded Simmons Capital Management and traded my own capital using Elliott Wave, IBD/CAN SLIM, Fibonacci, and Livermore's rules on the eSignal platform. The analysis worked. The execution didn't. So I made the rules the system.

The Approach

Jesse Livermore: there is a time to go long, a time to go short, and a time to go fishing. In a bear market — SPY below its 200-day moving average — this system goes to 100% cash. No exceptions. No heroic stock picks. You wait. This single rule is responsible for more of the return than any signal in the system.

The System

531 S&P 500 stocks scored daily across six independent gates. Pass all six or score zero. No partial credit. No override.

• Volume confirmation
• Relative strength
• Proximity to highs
• Closing strength
• Base quality
• Momentum state

Before any signal fires, a Catholic Social Teaching filter removes companies with material involvement in abortion, pornography, gambling, tobacco, or labor exploitation. Gate 0. Hard exclusion. No override. Ever.

No management fee. Compensation only from profits above a return hurdle. If the system doesn't perform, there is no charge.

The Java code from 2003 became a 6-gate scoring engine two decades later. The instinct became a rule. The rule became a system.