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Period 26 Review: INTR Soars +40% as All Three Active Screens Beat the Market
Magic Formula leads the journal for a second straight period at +2.57%, with ten of twelve names rising as its metals holdings join the tankers. Lynch adds +1.48% on RELY's +10.84%, despite SKHY's −13.38%. CANSLIM Rocket gains +1.33%, and INTR's +40.15% contributes more than the screen's entire return while LRCX, INOD, and CLS fall. All three active screens beat both the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ. Burry Value Screen, Schloss Dividend, Piotroski F-Score, and Quality Growth held no positions all period and again returned no qualifying names, so their values are unchanged, though each lost ground to the rising benchmarks.
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Period 25 Review: Tankers Rebound for Magic Formula as Four Screens Come Up Empty
Magic Formula leads the journal at +2.43% as the tanker names that sank it a week earlier rebound just as hard, with TRMD up +16.55% and HAFN +14.91%, lifting it back above Lynch into fifth. CANSLIM Rocket adds +0.58% on LRCX's +10.24% to extend its hold on second, while Lynch slips −0.09% on a near-even split of winners and losers. Four screens — Burry Value Screen, Schloss Dividend, Piotroski F-Score, and Quality Growth — returned no qualifying names at the October 3 snapshot, so under the journal's rules every holding is booked as exited at the sell fee and each posts exactly −0.10%. With those four screens holding nothing, the overlap list collapses from eleven stocks to two.
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Period 24 Review: CANSLIM Rocket Surges Alone as Tankers Sink Magic Formula
CANSLIM Rocket is the only one of the journal's seven screens to close positive this period, its +4.07% — its best result since Period 17 — powered by INOD's +21.12% and a broad semiconductor rebound, lifting its cumulative alpha against the S&P 500 back above zero. Magic Formula swings from Period 23's lone gainer to the period's worst result at −2.88% as the tanker names that carried it reverse, with HAFN falling −11.86% and TRMD −10.23%. Quality Growth's FICO drops −9.12%, trimming the leader's cumulative margin over CANSLIM Rocket to 12.52 points, and Lynch retakes fifth place from Magic Formula. Five of seven screens post perfect 100% retention, led by Piotroski F-Score's rebound from 84.6% and Burry Value Screen's return to a perfect mark, while the overlap list holds at eleven stocks, every pairing unchanged from September 19.
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Period 23 Review: Magic Formula Alone Stays Positive as CANSLIM Rocket Passes Schloss Dividend
Magic Formula is the only one of the journal's seven screens to close positive this period, its +0.30% powered by TRMD's +8.98% and HAFN's +7.89%, enough to overtake Lynch for fifth place on the cumulative scoreboard. CANSLIM Rocket's mildest loss among the rest, −0.45%, moves it past Schloss Dividend into second on the cumulative table, while Schloss's own −2.11% — the period's worst result — is driven by THO's −6.99% and VSNT's −5.40%. Quality Growth's SNDK completes a third straight whipsaw, from +17.17% in Period 21 to −6.13% in Period 22 to +9.70% now, while FICO slips back to −3.62% after its own Period 22 rebound. Burry Value Screen's retention falls to 95.2% from a perfect 100% after two exits, and Piotroski F-Score posts the period's weakest mark at 84.6%, wiping out last period's rebound to perfect. The overlap list narrows to eleven stocks from twelve as PLGO and LUXE both drop away and PAAS creates a new pairing between Lynch and CANSLIM Rocket.
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Period 22. September 6th - September 11th. All Seven Screens Turn Negative
Every one of the journal's seven screens closes in the red this period — only the third such sweep since Periods 5 and 8 — as the S&P 500 sheds −0.80% and the NASDAQ −0.66%. CANSLIM Rocket's −0.14% is the mildest loss of the seven, powered by CLS's +10.95% and BE's +9.05%, and it's enough to leapfrog Burry Value Screen into third place on the cumulative scoreboard after Burry's RELY plunges −15.97%, the period's steepest single-position decline and a drag shared with Lynch. Piotroski F-Score's −2.95% is the period's worst result, driven by WGO's −8.96% and MOMO's −7.82%, even as its retention rebounds to a perfect 100% from Period 21's 78.6%. Schloss Dividend swings the other way, from perfect retention to the period's weakest mark at 85.7% after two exits. Quality Growth's two biggest Period 21 movers trade places entirely: FICO, last period's worst decliner at −19.18%, rebounds +5.70%, while SNDK, last period's best gainer at +17.17%, reverses to −6.13%.
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Period 21 Review: CANSLIM Rocket Tops a Record-Tight Field as Six of Seven Screens Turn Positive
CANSLIM Rocket posts the best result of the period at +2.21%, powered by a broad rally in which twelve of its twenty positions close higher, led by BE's +19.97% surge. Six of the journal's seven screens close positive as the S&P 500 adds +0.09% and the NASDAQ +0.40%, and the gap between the best and worst screen narrows to 2.26 percentage points — the tightest spread of any period to date, ahead of Period 8's previous record of 2.92. Quality Growth's SNDK adds a third double-digit swing in four periods at +17.17%, while FICO's −19.18% remains the period's steepest decline. Five screens post perfect retention as Piotroski F-Score sheds three names for the period's weakest mark at 78.6%. The cumulative scoreboard holds its exact Period 20 order, as CANSLIM Rocket's strong week widens its cushion over Lynch instead of closing it.
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Period 20 Review: DRD's Reversal Drags Burry and Magic Formula as Schloss Dividend Alone Beats a Rising Market
Schloss Dividend posts the only outright beat of both benchmarks this period at +1.07%, as five of the journal's seven screens close negative even though the S&P 500 gained +0.49% and the NASDAQ added +0.85% — a full reversal of Period 19's down-market sweep. DRD, whose +26.91% surge was the largest single-position contribution of Period 19, reverses to −6.29% and drags both Burry Value Screen and Magic Formula into the red. Four screens — Burry, Schloss, Lynch, and Piotroski — post perfect 100% retention, and the 3.42-point spread between best and worst screen ties Period 13 for the second-narrowest of the journal behind only Period 8. Schloss Dividend's gain lifts it past Burry Value Screen into second place in the cumulative standings, while Quality Growth's lead over second place narrows to 5.11 points after its own −0.80% trailed both benchmarks this period.
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Period 19 Review: DRD's 27% Surge Powers Magic Formula to Its First Positive Cumulative Return as Every Screen Beats a Falling Market
Magic Formula posts the best result of the period at +5.49% — its strongest single period of the journal — powered by DRD's +26.91% surge and ERO's +16.63% gain, lifting its cumulative return into positive territory for the first time after eighteen straight periods underwater. All seven screens beat both benchmarks this period as the S&P 500 fell −1.43% and the NASDAQ dropped −2.05%; CANSLIM Rocket was the only screen to close in the red, at −1.01%, as ten of its seventeen retained positions declined. Burry Value Screen's +3.20% vaults it from fourth to second in the cumulative standings, while Quality Growth extends its lead to +33.01% and remains the only screen with positive cumulative alpha against either benchmark.
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Period 18 Review: A Single Stock's 35% Surge Vaults Quality Growth Back to the Top as Benchmarks Stall
Quality Growth posts the best result of the period at +5.14%, powered almost entirely by SNDK's +35.38% surge — a +3.93-point single-position contribution, the largest the journal has recorded — snapping the screen's three-period losing streak and extending its lead atop the cumulative standings. The other six screens split three positive and three negative in a far quieter period than Period 17: both benchmarks stall near flat, with the S&P 500 at +0.36% and the NASDAQ at +0.14%, after posting their strongest gains of the journal one period earlier. Quality Growth reclaims positive cumulative alpha against the S&P 500 — the only screen with a positive figure against either benchmark — while the 6.02-point spread between best and worst screen narrows sharply from Period 17's record 9.93 points.
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Period 17 Review: CANSLIM and Burry Post Career-Best Weeks as a Benchmark Surge Wipes Out the Journal's Last Cumulative Alpha
CANSLIM Rocket and Burry Value Screen post the best results of their histories at +7.34% and +7.03%, as a mining and metals rally lifts five of seven screens together. Quality Growth is the lone decliner at −2.59% — its third straight losing period — as SEZL collapses −23.74%. Both benchmarks post their strongest gains of the journal, narrowing Quality Growth's cumulative alpha lead over both. The 9.93-point spread between best and worst screen is the widest the journal has recorded.
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Period 16 Review: Piotroski's GLOB-Powered Surge Vaults It from Last to First as Quality Growth's Slide Extends
Piotroski F-Score rockets from last place to the week's best screen at +2.37%, powered almost entirely by GLOB's +16.93% reversal — a stock that was falling just one period earlier. Quality Growth posts its second straight worst-place finish at −2.94%, this time dragged down by FICO's −9.25% rather than the SEZL and DAVE swings that sank it last period. Both benchmarks close positive for the first time in three periods, yet only two of seven screens beat them. The cumulative standings hold their exact Period 15 order for the first time in months, even as CANSLIM Rocket reverses to negative on a second straight MU whipsaw.
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Period 15 Review: Magic Formula's Mining Rebound Powers a Stunning Turnaround as Quality Growth Posts Its Worst Period Yet
Magic Formula rockets from the journal's worst-ranked screen to the week's best at +4.17%, powered by the exact mining cluster — HMY, ORLA, CGAU, IAG — that caused its worst period just seven days earlier. Quality Growth craters to −3.46%, its own worst period on record, as DAVE reverses from +9.90% to −8.54% and newly added APP debuts at −7.67%. Five of seven screens close positive, up from three last period, even as both benchmarks fall again. Magic Formula's surge vaults it past Piotroski F-Score in the cumulative standings, handing Piotroski last place for the first time in the journal.
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Period 14 Review: Quality Growth Reclaims the Lead as CANSLIM Rocket Posts Its Worst Period on Record
Quality Growth reclaims the top spot at +1.57%, almost entirely on the back of DAVE's +9.90% gain, as CANSLIM Rocket posts its worst period on record at −5.24% amid a broad semiconductor selloff led by GLW's −19.01% and CLS's −16.26%. Only three of seven screens close positive, breaking a three-period streak of narrowing spreads as the best-to-worst gap widens back to 6.81 points. Retention swings from six of seven screens at 100% last period to just two this time, as Lunch and CANSLIM churn the most.
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Period 13 Review: Schloss Dividend Ends Quality Growth's Four-Period Reign as CANSLIM Turns Positive
Schloss Dividend posts +1.98% to end Quality Growth's four-period run atop the leaderboard, led by ATHM's +11.66% and GGB's +10.57%. CANSLIM turns positive at +0.27% for the first time in three periods as MU stabilizes, though its cumulative return keeps losing ground to both benchmarks. Six of seven screens post 100% retention — the calmest period yet — even as five of seven close in the red.
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Period 12 Review: Quality Growth's Third Straight Win as CANSLIM Falls Below Both Benchmarks
Twelve periods in, Quality Growth posts +3.38% for a third consecutive period atop the leaderboard, led by DAVE's +11.08% and FICO's +7.44%. CANSLIM falls −2.68% as MU collapses −13.84%, completing a full reversal of its two-period rally — pulling CANSLIM's cumulative return to +7.89%, now below both the S&P 500 (+10.35%) and the NASDAQ (+13.81%) for the first time in the journal.