Kept & Counted

Read № 29 · Saturday, July 18, 2026 · the weekly ledger

The regime — read the weather before the names

The tape is in a confirmed uptrend.

Wind at the back — hunt the coils

83 big weekly movers up 130 down 5-week balance +130

The color of this page follows the regime, computed fresh from all 1,590 names every run — not borrowed from anyone's newsletter. When participation is broad, the generals and the army agree. When the tape turns, this sky turns with it — and this page shows you fewer names, on purpose.

T2108 — internal health

of 1,590 stocks above their 40-wk average

The gate

How much tape do you deserve today?

The gate is open — 6 names surfaced, 0 suppressed.

"Full hunt — wind at the back. longs lead; the gate is open."

This is the part nobody else will show you: the picks are gated by conditions. In a confirmed uptrend the gate opens fully. When breadth rolls over, it tightens — marginal coils get held back, the warnings move above the picks, and the page tells you exactly how many names it refused to show. A service that shows you less when the odds get worse is the whole difference between a read and a sales pitch.

Confirmed uptrend

Gate open. Long coils lead, the full six surface. ← today

Neutral / chop

Gate tightened: only decisive, lopsided coils survive.

Overheated / rolling over

Fakes lead the page. Longs squeezed to the three most decisive.

Correction

Gate tight. Warnings first; suppressed count shown in brass.

Washout

Capitulation watch — coils are turn-watch, not chase-now.

Breadth — the army, counted head by head

83 up, 130 down. A down week inside a buyers' five-week balance.

Every run counts how many of the 1,590 made a big weekly move in each direction. No index can hide narrowing leadership from a head-count.

7%+ movers, week of July 13source: our own count, all 1,590 names

+130

5-week mover balance — buyers are carrying the tape

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price-vs-breadth divergence — the index and the army currently agree

1,590

names read every run — S&P 500 + 400 + 600, Nasdaq 100, + 73 off-index

The changelog — since the previous read

What changed its mind overnight.

The market is a ledger of commitments, and commitments change. Every read is diffed against the one before it — graduations, new coils, and the flips that matter most: names whose structure still looks fine while the money underneath starts leaving.

Flipped to distribution 5 names

  • ~MS — 2G/2R under the coil
  • ~MAS — 1G/1R under the coil
  • ~SCHL — 1G/1R under the coil
  • ~CORT — 1G/1R under the coil
  • ~PFGC — 1G/1R under the coil

Graduated coil → setup 21 names

  • SWK · ZD · FTRE · HCSG · MAS · CRL
  • HSTM · CDP · LNTH · PAYO · ENVA · TGTX
  • OUT · FTDR · AIR · SIRI · HWM · DVA
  • + 3 more in the ledger below

New coils forming 63 names

  • +LSTR · JXN · DBX · UA · AMGN · SNOW
  • +CASY · EGBN · PHIN · SAIC · ELAN · AIG
  • +MSEX · RXO · RAL · JNJ · MMI · RHI
  • + 45 more forming quietly

Worth a real look — 6 names, with the why on the card

Nothing here says buy. Everything here says why.

Each card carries the machine's verbatim read: the coil, the caps, and the sentence that justifies the name — unedited. The full recipe behind every number is printed at how we count.

ACA-1.3% from high ●●●●
ACA weekly chart — machine render

machine render · weekly bars · caps vs 8-wk volume average

4G/0R decisive accumulation under a flat tape. glued to the high; range contracting (7%/wk range · +26% base)

SIRI-2.6% from high ●●●
SIRI weekly chart — machine render

machine render · weekly bars · caps vs 8-wk volume average

Inside-bar trigger cocked at the box top. 3G/0R decisive accumulation under a flat tape; pressed to the high; range contracting (7%/wk range · +50% base)

IIPR-1.4% from high ●●●

3G/0R decisive accumulation under a flat tape. glued to the high (6%/wk range · +28% base)

PK-0.5% from high ●●●●

4G/0R decisive accumulation under a flat tape. glued to the high; range contracting (7%/wk range · +30% base)

FTRE-4.9% from high ●●●

Inside-bar trigger cocked at the box top. 3G/0R decisive accumulation under a flat tape; pressed to the high; range contracting (14%/wk range · +8% base)

TECH-0.1% from high ●●

2G/1R net accumulation under a flat tape. glued to the high; range contracting (9%/wk range · +5% base)

The don't-buy list — same stage, equal billing

Structure says coil. Commitment says exit.

These look identical to the names above if all you read is price — tight, near the highs, textbook. That's the costume. Peel it and the caps underneath are red: supply leaving while the price hovers. This is the chart that takes a newcomer's money, and no one selling you picks will ever print their own don't-buy list next to their buys. We print 38 of them today. Why we publish our fakes →

BTSG-2.1% from high ●●●●
BTSG price panel: looks like a tight coil near highs

structure — what everyone sees

BTSG volume caps: red-dominant, distribution

commitment — 2G/2R · supply leaving while pressed to the high

hover / tap to peel the costume ↓

AAMI-3.4% from high ●●●●●●
AAMI price panel: looks like a tight coil near highs

structure — what everyone sees

AAMI volume caps: red-dominant, distribution

commitment — 3G/3R · supply leaving while pressed to the high

hover / tap to peel the costume ↓

ROST-3.9% from high ●●●●●

1G/5R. Supply leaving while pressed to the high; structure says coil, commitment says exit

FTI-7.3% from high ●●●●●●

2G/4R. Supply leaving while 7% off the high; structure says coil, commitment says exit

Also flagged today: CHRW · DOC · HXL · FAF · BTSG · CPAY · SCHL · MSCI · AX · PANW · ROKU — all 38 in the raw read, kept and counted like everything else.

Today's lesson — learn by example

Same shape. Opposite truth.

Every read ships one clean live specimen of each archetype, and the specimens archive into a growing pattern library. Study them side by side until the difference is physical.

Cohering Coil — real accumulationACA
ACA: Cohering Coil — real accumulation

Tight box pressed to the high with green caps dominating: institutions buying INTO the pause. Structure (coil) and commitment (caps) AGREE → the roof is being validated. 4G/0R decisive accumulation under a flat tape; glued to the high; range contracting

Fake-Coil — distribution in disguiseBTSG
BTSG: Fake-Coil — distribution in disguise

Looks identical to a real coil on price — tight, near the high — but the caps under it are RED. Supply leaving while price hovers. Structure says coil, commitment says exit. The trap. 2G/2R — supply leaving while pressed to the high; structure says coil, commitment says exit

NHC — decisive vs thin — why the count matters: A lopsided tally (e.g. 7G/0R) is decisive commitment; a 2G/2R or 1G/1R is NO read — not enough committed flow to validate either way. Trust decisive, skip thin. 6G/0R decisive accumulation under a flat tape; glued to the high

The ledger — act-ready setups, all 25, nothing curated away

The full page, not the highlight reel.

Every name that met the bar today — including the mixed and diverging tail most services would quietly delete. The rank order and the verdicts are the read.

NameOff highRange/wk6 mo$ vol/wkCapsVerdict
CDP-1.2%5.0%/wk+22%$166M ●● cohering
ZD-1.4%7.3%/wk+44%$134M ●● cohering
HCSG-1.7%8.8%/wk+33%$69M ●●● cohering
WST-2.6%5.7%/wk+38%$1188M ●● cohering
SIRI-2.6%7.1%/wk+50%$604M ●●● cohering
DBD-3.8%6.9%/wk+23%$116M cohering
LNTH-3.8%6.5%/wk+67%$463M ●●●●● cohering
FTRE-4.9%14.4%/wk+8%$90M ●●● cohering
HSTM-5.1%6.1%/wk+31%$25M ●● cohering
SWK-5.2%8.1%/wk+7%$682M ●●● cohering
ENVA-5.6%7.6%/wk+48%$291M ●●● cohering
CRL-5.7%10.2%/wk+2%$810M cohering
CXW-6.0%7.6%/wk+53%$154M ●●● cohering
FTDR-6.2%7.1%/wk+27%$199M ●●● cohering
PAYO-7.1%8.1%/wk+32%$119M cohering
TGTX-7.5%10.9%/wk+79%$523M ●●● cohering
AIR-7.8%9.4%/wk+29%$229M ●●● cohering
DVA-1.1%6.0%/wk+126%$783M ●● mixed
AMN-3.5%10.1%/wk+84%$162M ●●● ●● mixed
OUT-5.0%5.8%/wk+32%$260M ●●●● ●●● mixed
HWM-6.3%5.7%/wk+21%$3077M ●●●● ●●● mixed
GFF-7.0%7.5%/wk+8%$165M ●● ●●●● mixed
PFGC-4.0%6.0%/wk+14%$773M diverging
MAS-5.5%8.3%/wk+12%$851M diverging
BRC-5.6%6.3%/wk+11%$116M ●● ●● diverging

aG/bR = green vs red volume caps inside the box · cohering = structure and commitment agree · diverging = distribution under the coil · ThinkOrSwim paste-lists ship with every email edition · the raw read is archived verbatim: read № 29

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reads kept since first light, June 28

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names read, every single run

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act-ready setups on today's page

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fakes flagged today, printed next to the picks

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