AQ Legends

What if the trading legends
had to prove it?

Minervini's VCP breakouts. O'Neil's growth screen. Darvas boxes, Livermore's pivotal points, the Turtles' channels, academic momentum, Piotroski's F-Score — and your own strategy. Twelve methodologies, one honest arena.

AQ Legends — the duel: equity curves, yearly race and ranking with medals
The arena

Same universe. Same capital. Same costs.

Every legend generates signals with its own rules — but they all compete under identical conditions: the full US stock universe including delisted companies, the same starting capital, the same commissions and slippage, and the same selection when there are more candidates than slots.

The result is something no trading book will show you: what each mythology actually delivers when the survivorship bias is removed and the costs are real. Some legends shine. Some legends bleed. Both results are the product.

Validation

Beyond the equity curve

Each strategy gets a Monte Carlo selection band — did its stock picking beat 100 random selections, or was it luck? — plus in-sample / out-of-sample validation, a year-by-year race table, and point-in-time candidate lists: what would each method buy today?

And with one click, the AI referee writes an extensive, chart-illustrated report on the whole duel: who won, at what risk, and what that teaches about each philosophy.

The contenders

Twelve philosophies in the ring

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SEPA · VCP Breakout

Minervini-style: trend template, volatility contraction pattern, pivot breakout with volume. Stop 8%, MM50 trailing.

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CANSLIM AAII Screen

The monthly screen AAII tracked in real time since 1998 — quarterly EPS +20% accelerating, point-in-time, near 52-week highs.

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Growth Breakout

O'Neil-style technical half: 7+ week bases, pivot + volume, the +20% sell rule and the famous 8-week exception.

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Darvas Box

Stacked boxes at 52-week highs — the original trailing stop, from a dancer who made $2,000,000 by telegram.

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Livermore Pivotal Points

Yearly highs pierced after a ≥10% shakeout, volume expanding, and his 10% rule as the exit.

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The Turtles

Dennis & Eckhardt's System 2: 55-day Donchian breakouts, 2N stops. Spoiler: stocks are not futures — and that lesson is the point.

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Stage 2 · Weinstein

The Stage 1→2 transition over the 30-week moving average, with volume confirmation.

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Academic Momentum ×3

Momentum 12-1, 52-Week High and Dual Momentum with its risk-on/off switch — measured against each other.

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Yours: Beat the Masters

Write your entry in AniQuant's strategy language and step into the same ring. Same universe, same costs, no excuses.

CAN SLIM® is a registered trademark of Investor's Business Daily. SEPA® is a trademark of Mark Minervini. AniQuant implements published, public descriptions of these methodologies and is not affiliated with or endorsed by their authors.

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