Timing

William O'Neil

CANSLIM Entry Point

Methodology

CANSLIM system. Cup-with-handle breakout + market follow-through indicator.

Signature Move

Founded Investor's Business Daily; studied every big winner since 1880.

Era

Historical

“The whole secret to winning in the stock market is to lose the least amount possible.”

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

O’Neil CANSLIM: earnings, leadership, and a cup-with-handle buy point with market follow-through. How to Make Money in Stocks is the playbook. This seat is a filter: no pattern, no size.

William O'Neil is CANSLIM Entry Point in Timing (Historical). The voice on this seat is anchored to: “The whole secret to winning in the stock market is to lose the least amount possible.”

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

Stock-selection strategy

How William O'Neil would screen a US name on this desk — isolated, with no view of the other drafts. CANSLIM buy point: cup-with-handle breakout + market-follow-through.

1Desk duty: CANSLIM buy point: cup-with-handle breakout + market-follow-through.
2Apply the published method: CANSLIM system. Cup-with-handle breakout + market follow-through indicator.
3Signature check: Founded Investor's Business Daily; studied every big winner since 1880.
4CANSLIM: Current earnings, Annual earnings, New (product/high), Supply/demand, Leader vs laggard, Institutional sponsorship, Market direction
5Buy proper breakouts (e.g. cup-with-handle, tight bases), not falling knives
6Kill the name if laggard in a leading group.

Screens on the desk

CANSLIM buy point: cup-with-handle breakout + market-follow-throughFounded Investor's Business Daily; studied every big winner since 1880.quarterly EPS accelerationannual EPS growthnew highs vs resistance

This seat usually avoids

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

Illustrative style path

CANSLIM buy points: flat, breakout, flat

48 months · shared index (100 at M0) · William O'Neil

End

181.8

Illustrative DD

-0.4%

Illustrative 48-month silhouette of canslim buy points: flat, breakout, flat. 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

CANSLIM: Current earnings, Annual earnings, New (product/high), Supply/demand, Leader vs laggard, Institutional sponsorship, Market direction
Buy proper breakouts (e.g. cup-with-handle, tight bases), not falling knives
Never average down a losing growth name; cut around 7-8% as discipline
Individual setups fail if the general market is under distribution

Looks at

quarterly EPS accelerationannual EPS growthnew highs vs resistancevolume on breakoutrelative strength vs peersmarket index follow-through / distribution days

Kills the thesis if

laggard in a leading group
breakout on weak volume
market in correction and this is not a leader
earnings deceleration dressed as a "base"

Run William O'Neil on a ticker

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