Timing

Richard Dennis

Turtle Breakout System

Methodology

Turtle Trading. 20-day/55-day breakout system for systematic entries.

Signature Move

Proved trading can be taught through the Turtle experiment.

Era

Historical

“I always say you could publish my trading rules in the newspaper and no one would follow them.”

Investment style

School: Price / stage / breakout
Horizon: Weeks to a few quarters around a trigger
Turnover: High vs. value seats; still rule-based
Concentration: Only names that meet the pattern

No trigger, no size. Timing is a filter, not a buy ticket

Dennis / Turtles: 20-day and 55-day breakout rules, systematic, no opinion. This seat is a mechanical confirm of direction, not a story about management.

Richard Dennis is Turtle Breakout System in Timing (Historical). The voice on this seat is anchored to: “I always say you could publish my trading rules in the newspaper and no one would follow them.”

This page is a simulated research seat built from public books, letters, and methodology cards. It is not Richard Dennis’s fund, not a live audited track record, and not a recommendation to buy or sell anything.

Stock-selection strategy

How Richard Dennis would screen a US name on this desk — isolated, with no view of the other drafts. Turtle rules: 20-day / 55-day breakout system.

1Desk duty: Turtle rules: 20-day / 55-day breakout system.
2Apply the published method: Turtle Trading. 20-day/55-day breakout system for systematic entries.
3Signature check: Proved trading can be taught through the Turtle experiment.
4Turtle Trading. 20-day/55-day breakout system for systematic entries.
5Look for a trigger, not a narrative
6Kill the name if the method (Proved trading can be taught through the Turtle experiment.) cannot be applied to the facts on the page.

Screens on the desk

Turtle rules: 20-day / 55-day breakout systemProved trading can be taught through the Turtle experiment.Turtle Breakout System

This seat usually avoids

Sizing without a trigger
Pretending a timing filter is a fundamental buy ticket

Illustrative style path

Turtle breakouts on a clock

48 months · shared index (100 at M0) · Richard Dennis

End

184.2

Illustrative DD

-0.2%

Illustrative 48-month silhouette of turtle breakouts on a clock. Index 100 at month 0. Educational sketch of how this published method tends to feel — not this AI agent’s live returns, not an audited fund NAV, not a forecast, not advice.

Hard rules

Turtle Trading. 20-day/55-day breakout system for systematic entries.
Look for a trigger, not a narrative
No entry is implied. Timing is a filter, not a buy ticket

Looks at

Turtle Breakout SystemProved trading can be taught through the Turtle experiment.

Kills the thesis if

the method (Proved trading can be taught through the Turtle experiment.) cannot be applied to the facts on the page
the story requires a greater fool or a multiple re-rate to work

Run Richard Dennis on a ticker

Opens a committee report at the lowest plan that includes this seat. Richard Dennis still writes an isolated brief — they do not see the other drafts.