A clean-looking breakout on a chart is not, by itself, a reason to buy anything. Plenty of technically perfect setups are attached to companies with deteriorating fundamentals, and plenty of fundamentally sound companies never produce a tradeable technical setup at all. Finomint’s swing trading research is built around the idea that a setup only qualifies for publication when the technical pattern and the underlying business both hold up — and every candidate has to clear four filters before that happens.
Filter one: an objectively identifiable technical pattern
The starting requirement is a clear chart pattern on the daily or weekly timeframe — a breakout from consolidation, a flag or pennant, a cup-and-handle, or a reversal forming at a well-defined support level. The pattern has to be objectively identifiable, not a shape that only becomes visible once you already believe the stock should go up.
Filter two: volume has to confirm the move
Price without volume is a weak signal. A qualifying breakout needs rising volume on the breakout day itself — typically at least 1.5 times the average — with volume declining during any pullback that follows. A breakout on thin volume is one of the more common ways a technically promising setup fails within days.
Filter three: momentum and oscillators, used for confirmation
For long setups, RSI(14) needs to sit in the 40–70 range, MACD needs to show convergence or a crossover, and there should be no bearish divergence forming. It’s worth being clear that these oscillators are used for confirmation of a pattern that already exists — not as the primary trigger. A stock with a great RSI reading and no underlying chart pattern isn’t a setup.
Filter four: the fundamental sanity check
This is the filter that separates swing trading research from pure chart-reading. The technical setup has to be backed by a business that isn’t distressed — no governance red flags, no deteriorating earnings trajectory, a balance sheet that’s stable or improving. A stock can pass every technical filter and still get excluded here if the underlying business tells a worrying story.
What a published setup actually looks like
A qualifying setup is published with a defined entry zone (typically a tight price range rather than a single number), a target price derived from a measured-move projection, previous resistance, or a Fibonacci extension, and a stop-loss placed below the nearest support or based on 1.5–2x the Average True Range (ATR). Every published setup carries a minimum risk-reward ratio of 1:2, and the full rationale — the pattern, the volume confirmation, the oscillator readings, and the fundamental backdrop — is published alongside the levels, not held back.
Tracking wins and losses equally
Every setup, once published, is tracked all the way to its target or its stop-loss — and the track record reports both outcomes. A setup that hits stop-loss six weeks after being published is documented with the same visibility as one that runs to target. This is, again, what separates research from promotion: a provider only showing you the wins isn’t showing you the actual accuracy of the process.
Read the full report
Finomint typically publishes two to four swing setups a month, only when a candidate clears all four filters — not on a fixed schedule regardless of what the market offers. The current active setup, with full entry, target, stop-loss and reasoning, is free to read with no account required.