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Period 3 Review: A Rising Market and the Point Where Every Screen Lags

Five more days, a market that keeps climbing, and the point at which every systematic screen now trails the S&P 500 cumulatively. Three periods in.

Journal Period 3 Cumulative +1.18% Best screen
Apr 27
2026

Period 2 Review: Five Days, a Rebound, and the Signal in Stability

Five trading days, a market rebound, and what the screens reveal about strategy stability and short-term noise.

Journal Period 2 Overlap
+2.26% Best screen
Apr 22
2026

Period 1 Review: How 7 Screens Fared compared to the Market

How 7 systematic stock screens performed across 43 days of a declining market. Retention rates, portfolio returns, and early lessons.

Journal Period 1 Backtest
+6.2% Best screen
Apr 20
2026

The Stock Market as a Wealth Vehicle — and Why Most People Use It Wrong

Why equities are the most powerful wealth-building tool available to individual investors, what the risks actually are, and how systematic thinking changes your odds.

Education Wealth Risk
10 min Read time

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Most financial content is noise — opinions dressed as analysis. Signal to Alpha is different. Every post starts with data, builds a testable hypothesis, and shows the full picture including when strategies fail. Written by an engineer who treats markets as systems.

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