Updates

A note, because many still picture the old model. For months it scored every stock through a stack of gates — volume surge, relative strength, base quality, a physics-inspired energy state. Good mechanics. But a checklist is not a method.

The system has been rebuilt around one thing: Jesse Livermore's actual rules. Read the tape. Own only the leaders — the strongest names in the strongest groups. Wait for the pivotal point, the line a stock must cross to prove itself, and buy the break on volume. Probe small, pyramid into strength, cut losers at the structural stop, and sit. In a bear market, hold cash and wait.

The result is a different animal — and across fifteen years of backtesting it tested materially stronger than the model it replaced: bigger winners, higher returns, lower turnover, far higher conviction. Those are hypothetical, backtested results — not actual trading. The specific figures and full methodology live in the diligence materials, not a public post. What changed in plain view: we stopped scoring stocks and started reading the tape, the way the greatest operator who ever lived did it.

This week's breakouts — leaders that crossed their pivotal points and triggered entry at the following open, each through the USCCB screen first:

• RVMD · breakout $163.68 · RS 97 · pivot $157.48
• BRUN · breakout $39.20 · RS 97 · pivot $34.05
• HBM · breakout $30.59 · RS 95 · pivot $29.16
• INOD · breakout $115.32 · RS 94 · pivot $104.98
• ALNT · breakout $83.08 · RS 92 · pivot $79.16

The pivotal point is the line. Crossing it is where conviction is required.

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

That's the foundation of Enoch Capital LLC — 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, position 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 market day that reads stocks through Jesse Livermore's rules — the tape, top-decile relative strength, tightening secondary reactions, and the pivotal-point breakout on volume — all behind a hard Catholic screen, building each position by probing small and pyramiding into strength. 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

The universe is read each market day through Jesse Livermore's rules, in sequence. Satisfy every rule or stay out. No partial credit. No override.

• The tape — long in a bull market, 100% cash in a bear
• Top-decile relative strength — genuine leaders only
• Secondary reactions — tightening pullbacks on lighter volume
• The pivotal point — the breakout on a volume surge
• Probe, then pyramid into strength
• The structural stop, then sit

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 pure Livermore rule engine two decades later. The instinct became a rule. The rule became a system.