The Real Secret to Stock Market Success
Stockscores Foundation for the week ending April 13, 2026
In this week's issue:
In This Week’s Issue:
- Tyler on MoneyTalks
- Upcoming Webinars – Free Stock Trading Classes in April
- Market Outlook – Optimistic Volatility
- This Week’s Market Minutes video – The Easiest Way to AVOID Losing Stocks
- Trader Training – The Real Secret to Stock Market Success
- Strategy – Alpha Gainers
Tyler on MoneyTalks
Tyler appeared on the MoneyTalks podcast with Michael Campbell. A great conversation about some of the important considerations for investors and traders in this market, the inteview can be seen on the MoneyTalks YouTube channel, click here to watch.
Upcoming Webinars – Free Stock Trading Classes in April
Register for any of these free one hour classes by going to the Upcoming Events page on Stockscores or click the link below
The Essential Characteristics of Great Stocks
https://register.gotowebinar.com/#register/5695721374376774485
Tuesday, April 14, 2026 6 PM PT
Find the Best Stocks, Manage Risk, and Build Wealth
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1430432096233716576
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 6 PM PT
Winning Day and Swing Trading Strategies for Consistent Income
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1065765870742282332
Thursday, April 16, 2026 6PM PT
Find Better Stocks and Trade Smarter with Stockscores
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3204267608254987609
Saturday, April 18, 2026 9AM PT
Market Outlook – Optimistic Volatility
Market activity indicates they buyers are eager to act but headlines cause quick moves up or down making the attempt at a turnaround quite volatile. This is a good environment for short term trades but longer term investors should wait for the daily and weekly charts show upside breakouts from optimism.
This Week’s Market Minutes Video – The Easiest Way to AVOID Losing Stocks
Before you buy any stock, you must understand some key principles to avoid losing stocks. This week, I highlight some simple things to look for before you buy another stock. Then, I provide my analysis of the overall markets and look at the trade of the week on FUSE.
Click Here to Watch On YouTube
https://youtu.be/stPGqTzcEoU
Commentary – The Real Secret to Stock Market Success
We all want to buy the right stock. We want to find the one that takes off quickly and delivers big gains in a short period of time. That is what attracts most people to the stock market in the first place. The problem is that this focus on a single trade can actually hurt your performance.
Whether you are a short-term trader or a long-term investor, there is one skill that matters even more than picking the right stock. That skill is consistency.
Real success in the stock market does not come from a few big wins. It comes from doing the right things over and over again. It comes from consistently putting the odds in your favor. That means consistently having a solid winning percentage, consistently avoiding large losses, and consistently allowing profitable trades to grow. Trading and investing are probability games, and the people who do best are those who use strategies with a positive expected value.
So what does that mean?
It starts with some simple math. Let’s say you are right 60 percent of the time. When you are right, you make an average of $300. When you are wrong, you lose an average of $150. After 10 trades, what happens?
Six of those trades are winners, earning $300 each, for a total gain of $1,800. Four of those trades are losers, losing $150 each, for a total loss of $600. That leaves you with a net profit of $1,200 after just 10 trades.
That is the power of a strategy with a positive expected value.
Some traders might look at a 60 percent win rate and think it is not impressive. They want to be right all the time. But that is not how successful trading works. You do not need to be right on every trade. You just need a strategy where your winners are large enough, and your losses are small enough, that the numbers work in your favor over time.
That is why consistency matters so much. Once you have a profitable, well-tested strategy and you can execute it with discipline, you have something that can be scaled.
At first, you may take small positions while you prove to yourself that you can follow the strategy properly. But as consistency improves, you can begin increasing your position size. Using the same example, if your average gain becomes $3,000 and your average loss becomes $1,500, while keeping the same win rate and the same positive expected value, then after 10 trades your profit is no longer $1,200. It becomes $12,000.
That is when trading starts to become meaningful.
The key is that scaling should only happen after consistency has been achieved. Too many traders try to make big money before they have proven they can trade well. That is backwards. First, build the process. First, prove the strategy. First, develop the discipline. Then increase the size.
Profitable trading and investing begin with a profitable, well-tested strategy. From there, success comes from discipline, focus, sound process, and the right tools. When those things come together, and when consistency is present, substantial profits can follow.
In the end, stock market success is not about finding one perfect stock. It is about building a repeatable process that gives you an edge and then applying that edge over and over again.
That is how real wealth is built in the market.
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Alpha stocks are those trading on their own story and are characterized by abnormal price and volume action. This week, I highlight two stocks that have Alpha and are also showing price patterns that have some good potential:
1. AIXIAIXI made a big jump last week on very strong volume. It has been pulling back for the past few days but is starting to stabilize, which often comes before the next leg up. Watch for a move up through $1.60 as cue that it is going to try for more gains.
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2. SGMLSGML has had good upward momentum for the past few months and today breaks out to new 1 year highs. The long term chart shows a good turnaround pattern, as long as support at $9 holds up.
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