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Popular Stocks Through Our Lens

What would JumpstartSignal's 5-stage momentum system have done with well-known stocks? Wins, misses, stocks that trailed the market, and losses, with candlestick charts and full signal data.

These case studies use the same R30 backtest (2012–2025) that powers our results page. Nothing cherry-picked, every signal shown, including the ones that lost.

Stocks We Caught Early
NVDA 🏆
NVIDIA Corporation Caught 26 times between 2018 and 2024
AAPL ✅
Apple Inc. Caught 10 times between 2012 and 2018
SMCI ✅
Super Micro Computer Caught 7 times across 3 clusters from 2022 to 2023
GOOGL ✅
Alphabet Inc. Caught 4 times between 2020 and 2021
AMD ✅
Advanced Micro Devices Caught 3 times across two clusters in 2020
META ✅
Meta Platforms, Inc. Caught at OPPORTUNITY in 2014, before it climbed out of range
Stocks We Missed
TSLA
Tesla, Inc. On our MONITOR watchlist from 2020, never an actionable buy
AMZN
Amazon.com, Inc. On our MONITOR watchlist for 321 days, the quality was there, the timing never was
PANW
Palo Alto Networks, Inc. It only ever grazed our MONITOR watchlist, never close to a buy
Stocks that Trailed the Market
NICE ✅
NICE Ltd 4 OPPORTUNITY signals across 2016-2017, gained but lagged the market
NFLX ✅
Netflix, Inc. Flagged at OPPORTUNITY in 2024, then it trailed the market
Losses, Full Transparency
DT ✅
Dynatrace, Inc. Caught at OPPORTUNITY in early 2025, then it fell 36%
CARG ✅
CarGurus, Inc. Caught at OPPORTUNITY in late 2021, then it lost money
MYGN ✅
Myriad Genetics, Inc. Caught at OPPORTUNITY in 2012, then it lost 78%

14 case studies, more added regularly.

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