The honest small print.

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These stocks are high-risk. Ignition's Small Cap engine focuses on low-float, micro-cap, and sub-$2 stocks. These are among the most volatile and illiquid securities in the market. They can move violently in either direction, can be hard to buy or sell at the price you want, and are more exposed to manipulation, halts, and total loss. You can lose some or all of the money you put in.

Large Cap carries different risks, not smaller ones. The Large Cap product alerts on companies above $2B, which are more liquid than micro-caps, but the rule deliberately buys shares that are falling. A company that looks cheap can keep falling or fail outright. Each buy is a quarter of the book, so a single loss moves the whole book. Its stops, −25% on rule A and −3% on rule B, are resting orders, not floors: a gap can go straight through one, exactly as above.

Large Cap buys company shares only. Since 25 September 2026 the Large Cap rule buys only US common stocks and ADRs on Nasdaq or NYSE, worth $2 billion or more, never OTC. The rule before it could also buy exchange-traded funds, notes and similar products (ETFs, ETNs, ETPs), some of them leveraged or inverse. The current rule buys none of them. Every position the rule before still held was sold at the rule change on 25 September 2026, when the new rule first needed their slots.

Timed sales and a tight stop carry risks of their own. The day filler and the close filler have no stop: each sells at the next session's official open, whatever that price is, so a stock that gaps down overnight is sold below where it was bought. Rule A sells at +30%, at its −25% stop or at the official open of its 4th session; rule B at its −3% stop or at the official close of its 14th session. A −3% stop sits close to the buy price, so an ordinary swing can trigger it, and a gap can fill it far lower. Targets and stops are watched from 9:30am to 4pm ET, so a move before the open or after the close is acted on only in the regular session.

Our Large Cap testing is fitted, and flattered. The rule was fitted to 2025 and 2026: its parts and their tests were chosen because they worked in those two years, so how it did in them is not evidence of what it will do. Tested on 2022, 2023 and 2024, the same rule lost 53% to 63% a year. Treat these figures as illustrative only, exactly as with everything else on this page.

Large Cap's record is short. The book is live: its positions are published on this site as they are bought, marked at their latest quote and labelled unrealized. As of this writing it has been running 2 months, has closed 43 trades and holds 4 open positions. That is not a track record. Two different kinds of figure are shown for this book and they must not be read as the same thing: a closed-trade figure counts only trades that have actually been closed, whereas the book equity figure is marked to market and therefore includes the open positions, whose gains are unrealized and can disappear entirely before they are booked. An unrealized mark is not a result. Separately, no backtested gain for Large Cap is published on this site, because backtests flatter strategies that buy declines: companies that fell and never recovered are frequently missing from historical datasets, and this rule was fitted to 2025 and 2026. Until Large Cap has a body of closed trades published the same way the small-cap record is, treat every figure for it as a young book's early readings rather than evidence of what it will do.

How to read our numbers. "Alert price" is the price the scanner flagged a stock at. "Peak" is the highest price it reached afterward. "Max gain" and the "from peak" portfolio are the best move that was theoretically available: they do not represent a real trade, a realized return, or any guarantee that a person could have bought at the low and sold at the high. The rules-based portfolio (from 2026-09-25 the Doubler DNA in its current form: bought at the official close, half sold at +50% and the rest at +100%, a −25% stop, out by the 10th session, with no fees included; from 2026-09-18 its second form, sold at the touch of the 10-day average or a −20% stop, which positions bought before 25 September keep; from 2026-09-14 to 2026-09-18 its first form, and before that the earlier rule, all kept as published) is an illustration, not a live brokerage account. Slippage, fees, taxes, liquidity, and timing would all change real-world results. Elapsed time is stated alongside every return figure (the Small Cap book's return in months, the Large Cap book's in weeks while it is young) and is rounded so that it never understates how long a return took.

The stop is a resting order, not a guarantee. The Small Cap rule caps a loss at −25% below the buy price; once the first half has sold, the stop on the rest moves to the buy price (positions bought before 25 September keep −20%; its first form used −15%, the rule before that −10%; the Large Cap rule uses −25% on rule A and −3% on rule B, and its fillers have none). Every figure we publish books a stopped position at that line, or lower when the price gaps through it. Real fills do not work that way. On our own earlier record, 55 of 79 closed positions (70%) traded straight through their stop line inside a single five-minute bar, and the deepest intrabar move was −42.1% below the entry before the price recovered. A stop rests at a price and becomes a market order once touched: in a thin, fast-moving, low-float stock it can fill far below where you set it, or gap past it overnight with no chance to fill at all. A Small Cap stop can also fill before the open or after the close, while most brokers run stop orders only from 9:30am to 4pm ET. The sales at +50% and +100% are resting orders too, and a real fill can differ from them; the 10-day average that positions bought before 25 September sell at moves with every print. Assume a real loss can be several times larger than the stop our published figures show. Measured on five-minute EODHD data across every closed position. The same is true of any stop, in any account, on stocks like these.

Past performance does not predict future results. A pattern that worked before can fail at any time. Past, hypothetical, simulated, or peak / high-water-mark figures are illustrative only, are not indicative of future results, may not be obtainable in actual trading, and no profit, return, or outcome is promised or guaranteed.

Hypothetical and simulated performance. All portfolio figures on this site and in our emails are simulated, rules-based illustrations, not actual trading. Simulated or hypothetical performance results have inherent limitations: they do not reflect actual trades, real liquidity, fees, taxes, slippage, or the impact of the strategy's own orders on these thin markets, and they are generally prepared with the benefit of hindsight. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those shown.

Data sources. Prices and market data are drawn from third-party sources believed to be reliable but not guaranteed. They may be delayed, incomplete, or inaccurate, and published figures may change when source data is corrected (for example after reverse splits or bad prints).

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